Arts & Culture

The viral publishing sensation that may be BookTok’s last

As the US faces a potential ban on TikTok, the viral success of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series shows just how influential the BookTok community has become

“Imagining hell is a privilege”

What non-Western science fiction can teach us about real-world inequity

What we watched, read and listened to in 2024: Part Two

Part Two of the books, podcasts, TV series, poems, footy matches and more that inspired us in 2024

What we watched, read and listened to in 2024: Part One

The books, podcasts, TV series, poems, footy matches and more that inspired us in 2024

Australian books you might have missed in 2024

Three prize winners, two predictions and one tribute – this book list has your summer reading sorted

16mm films should be experienced, not just seen

Forget streaming and YouTube, 16mm films are ready to relive their moment in the spotlight … of a projector

How to be less of an ‘unc’ and more of a ‘sigma’: Your guide to translating your teenager

Teenagers are our best linguistic innovators, but sometimes it can be hard to understand what they’re talking about

Have you been taken by the Korean Wave yet?

What big data tells us about the rising popularity of South Korean ‘Hallyu’ culture around the world

It’s time to recognise the role masculinity is playing in the climate crisis

COP29 came to a fairly disappointing end. We need to address the role of masculinity in harms against nature

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Bushrangers in their own words

Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories