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Anne Tyler: time chaser

Author Anne Tyler at her home in Baltimore. "I'm still here, doing what I was doing when I was three."

In her new retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author "liked being rude to people, vicariously".

Going south

The Aurora Australis, which is regularly chartered by the Australian Antarctic Division for research and support ...

In lieu of TV, you can watch penguins. The food's great, but you’re 3000 kilometres away from your partner. Here's what life is really like in Antarctica.

2016 Gift Guide

2016 Most Wanted Gift Guide

We’ve done the hunting, you do the gathering: try these intriguing Christmas gift ideas to ensure that the joy is all in the receiving.

The fire starter

Flames sweep towards the heritage-listed NSW Central Coast town of Catherine Hill Bay on October 12, 2013.

A destructive blaze north of Sydney rages for days. Tim Elliott follows the investigation to find out if the inferno was deliberately lit.

Pete Evans: Leader of the tribe

Pete Evans has been ribbed on social media about his diet of activated almonds, which are soaked in water to force ...

TV chef and paleo diet champion Pete Evans eschews dairy and grains - but also sunscreen and fluoride - and his unusual advice goes out to 1.5 million Facebook followers.

My missing mother

John with Grace in 1936.

In World War II London, a four-year-old boy's mother disappears without a trace. Years late, not even knowing her name, he begins to search for her.

New face in town

Portrait of Dr Anne Aly.

Anne Aly is the first Muslim woman to be elected to federal parliament, a global counter-terrorism expert – and she’s destined to become a leading voice in public life.

Shock tactics

School-leavers are set to descend on popular Schoolies destinations next week including the Gold Coast and Bali- with ...

As Schoolies week kicks off, emergency specialists are using hard-core methods to deter adolescents from risk-taking behaviour,

They shoot horses, don't they?

They are bred for speed and grace, but when they don’t perform, the knackery looms.

The daughter of a former thoroughbred breeder confronts the brutal reality faced by racehorses who've outlived their usefulness.

Why we have affairs

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Infidelity has become big business: but can marriage survive one partner's urge to "feel alive again"?

Weapon wars

An anti-carry rally on the University of Texas campus.

University students in Texas now have the right to carry concealed firearms on campus, a trend that has the police deeply worried.

Two Of Us

Twins Paul Perrett and his sister Amy Perrett, 27, are both trailblazers in their fields.

Amy and Paul Perrett

Amy is Rugby Union’s first full-time female referee. Her twin brother Paul set up the first school for teaching English on Nauru.

Modern Guru

Adult Education

Benjamin Law

Family values

After my parents migrated to Australia from Hong Kong, they did what migrants tend to do so well: they bred. Prolifically. They weren't religious, just enthusiastic.

Minutes With...

Mick Mock, vintage surfboard collector and authority on all things surfing.

68 minutes with...

A sense of obsessiveness has driven this tireless chronicler of surf culture, whose collection has Tim Elliott green with envy.

Endorsed

For me, "the carols" were always Carols in the Domain.

Carols by candlelight

Dim sims. Off-key soap stars. Stilted gags from breakfast-TV hosts. The things an Aussie Christmas is made of.