Thomas Köck doesn’t refer to Klemperer’s diaries or to LTI. On several occasions he mentions a fictional chronicle: Octavia E ...

Light-years behind Taylor Swift in terms of high- class showbiz professionalism, the wild reciter represents poetry’s ...

Essays & reportage People-watching in Port Moresby Gordon Peake 14 September 2024 Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days ...

Books & arts In the face of death Jacinta Halloran 1 November 2024 Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness ...

Correspondents The significance of 1 September Klaus Neumann 2 September 2019 A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state ...

With almost half the world’s population voting in national or Europe-wide elections during 2024, Time magazine declared it “the ultimate election year.” Now it’s almost over we can stand back and try ...

Will the next federal election, due by May next year, result in a hung parliament? Everyone seems to think so. The opinion poll ingredients — low major-party primary support; two-party-preferred ...

Before he resigned from the House of Commons in 2023, Boris Johnson updated his register of parliamentary interests to reveal that he had received an advance of £510,000 (a shade over A$1 million) for ...

Kevin Rudd’s new book, On Xi Jinping, explores the ideology and worldview of Chinese president Xi Jinping, more formally known as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and state chairman of ...

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s song, “The Folks Who Live on the Hill,” contains the lines: “Our verandah will command a view of meadows green, / The sort of view that seems to want to be seen.” ...