Deborah Dundas

Wildfires, modern lovers and one dead bastard all feature in some of the season’s best reads.

Alice Munro’s husband sexually assaulted her youngest daughter. For nearly five decades, a conspiracy of silence haunted the family, and at times, tore them apart.

The actor hopes his debut novel, “The Book of Elsewhere,” co-written with China Miéville, is both profound and thrilling.

There is “a growing inequality in the arts with increasingly expensive or exclusive performances where ordinary people on the outside are left to gawp at the beautiful people and art

Truth and Reconciliation commissioner has published his memoir “Who We Are,” a personal story that reflects how we’ve changed as a country, and what we still need to do

We can use networks of information to find and make community, says the author. But AI and social media are also making our divisions more stark.

The idea of questioning authority used to mean certain things: think for yourself, don't trust "the man," you have the power to change things. It was about the absence of

Janice Gross Stein is one of the world's leading experts on the politics of the Middle East and is the founder of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the

One of Britain's freshest new voices talks to the Star about power, privilege and the notion of shared truth.

Nigerian-American writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her long-awaited new novel and the concept of radical honesty.