Books

The best stories crackle with a kind of electricity, but why they grab us can be hard to articulate. A new podcast is trying to find the answer

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament

The work of author Ian Hideo Levy, the first Westerner to write literature in Japanese, questions the links between language, nation and ethnicity

A new book explores BUMIDOM, the controversial mass migration program from the Caribbean to France from 1963-1982, and the creative works keeping this memory alive

Is Australia's literature curriculum still beholden to its colonial past? New research says it is, with a focus on class and privilege

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

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

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

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

A new book explores the many – often surprising – connections between Walt Disney and Australia, most of which have faded from modern memory