The Mystery of Artur Loureiro

While viewing an exhibition of European paintings in a Porto (Portugal) art gallery two years ago, I was surprised to … More

Pyramid Plonk Passé

Aesthetic vindication can take decades to arrive, but last week in Paris my original judgement of the Louvre’s (in)famous glass … More

Last month twenty-five years ago the Y2K computer bug was threatening armageddon on 31 December, by melting down the world’s … More

(My original piece has been revised below, as I’ve reconsidered crime numbers in the light of Mark Twain’s famous maxim … More

Apparently Australians have a book buying frenzy in the period before Christmas, generating 70% of annual bookshop sales from October. … More

Japan is a fascinating country, that we visited in July. Aussies are flocking to the ‘Thinking Man’s Bali’. The mix … More

Sad news: my old mate the actor Donald Sutherland passed away on Thursday, aged 88. We haven’t been in touch … More

Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior … More

Wifedom (sub-tilted Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life) by Anna Funder. Orwell (The Authorised Biography) by Michael Shelden. I may have bitten … More

Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write … More