Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood keeps receipts – and she’s finally using them
In her new memoir, the literary legend gets even, spills secrets and reflects – with trademark wit – on the lives she’s lived.
- Melanie Kembrey
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18 books we’re excited to read in November
Your Christmas shopping is done! The publishing year draws to a close with a cracking line-up of novels, major histories, memoirs and essay collections.
- Jason Steger
Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025
Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.
- Melanie Kembrey
‘A lot of it is coming true’: Inside the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale
After nine years and two Trump presidencies, the darkest show on television is coming to an end. Everyone on set is painfully aware of the series’ relevance.
- Jacqueline Cutler
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The Handmaid’s Tale is back for its final season. Here’s what we know
The sixth season promises an epic rebellion inside the dystopian authoritarian “hellscape”, and an ending that will leave a mark.
- Meg Watson
Margaret Atwood’s late husband haunts her profound new book
Old Babes in the Wood is marked by shocking flashes and jolts of horrifying imagery that point to the brutality of a darker truth.
- Carmel Bird
The 10 books to read in March
There are new releases from Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry and Eleanor Catton, a biography of Tanya Plibersek and a 650-page whopper about our changing world.
- Jason Steger
From Sydney’s west to Hollywood’s A-list: Meet The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aussie star
Yvonne Strahovski is one of the best things about the dystopian TV hit – so good that most viewers have no idea she’s Australian, the daughter of Polish immigrants who know a thing or two about barbaric regimes.
- Amanda Hooton
Trailer: The Handmaid's Tale
Based on the book, the series portrays a dystopian future oppressive to women, and the growing resistance movement.
Ralph Heimans: royalty’s go-to painter
His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.
- Bevan Shields