Literature's most brutal break-ups
From Margaret Mitchell to Haruki Murakami to Graham Greene, capturing the severity of a break-up is…
17 February 2020 - 08.02 a.m.
From the stage to the page
In December 2018, after 50 years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Sir William Connolly, CBE,…
11 February 2020 - 08.02 a.m.
Why The Scientists thought The Angels' fans would kill them
It was 1993 when, at the end of a Sunday night shift on The Newcastle Herald in NSW, Australia, one…
11 February 2020 - 07.02 a.m.
Why the 'iron curtain' descended
Historian Preston describes how "war-weary" British prime minister Winston Churchill, "seriously…
31 January 2020 - 07.01 a.m.
The denouement has finally arrived
It is a clever and satisfying piece of symmetry – when Penguin Random House began to republish the…
09 January 2020 - 08.01 a.m.