‘People treat each other as disposable’: dating columnist turned novelist Annie Lord on love and sex in the age of apps
Her breakup memoir and Vogue column made her the voice of modern dating. As her debut is published, she talks about single life, oversharing and why she still believes she’ll…
The kindness of strangers: I was hopelessly ill in China – then hotel staff offered to take my elderly father sightseeing
Before they left, the receptionist delicately straightened my father’s collar. I knew then they would be just fine Read more in the kindness of strangers series The food poisoning hit…
‘Stop telling people it’s weird’: Andrew Upton on his strange new novel, and having Cate Blanchett read it first
An allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, the Australian playwright’s debut novel about a disfigured chicken is a fantastical fable that’s both funny and ‘a bit bleak’ Andrew Upton…
What Rumi’s magnum opus can teach us about greed and contentment in the digital age of envy | Ali Hammoud
Lessons on wealth lurk in the crevices of Rumi’s poetry – and a change in perspective can reveal its pearls of wisdom Making sense of it is a column about…
A swarm of stink bugs and a river of rats: why India’s flowering bamboo causes a crisis for humans
Every few decades mass blooming in Mizoram’s forests causes a rodent boom – and devastation to crops. The cycle is well-known, so why aren’t farmers and authorities better prepared? In…
Lizzo answers her critics: ‘I’m a fat, black, happy girl – they were always going to try to tear me down’
Three years ago, the pop star was riding high after a sellout tour. But then a slew of shocking accusations from her former dancers changed everything. Where does she go…
Caitlin Clark never asked to become a political symbol. Trump’s allies have chosen her anyway
A congressional threat to bring the DoJ into the WNBA pushes Caitlin Clark into a role she has long tried to avoid: the central figure in America’s latest sports culture…
Meet Darcy Byrne, the Labor mayor taking on pokies reform – podcast
Darcy Byrne is the Labor mayor of Sydney’s Inner West council and he’s helping lead a grassroots movement on curbing gambling harm in the community – including pushing for a…
The moment I knew: I was devising a plan to set up Martha with my friend – and realised I’d fallen for her myself
After meeting in then-Zaire in the 1980s, Steve Sherwood and Martha Meares became good friends. But when she planned to leave for England, he decided he wanted something more Find…
Adam Liaw: ‘The most famous person I’ve cooked for? Gordon Ramsay. My wife spilled a jug of water over him’
The TV presenter and cookbook author on eating from a 600-year-old plate, the time he ruined a $300 steak and why garlic crushers are pointless What’s the oldest thing you…