Château Rouge by Amit Chaudhuri: a different take on Paris

The narrator of Amit Chaudhuri’s ninth novel is an Indian writer who arrives in Paris for a prestigious fellowship. But ...

Australia: Karl Stefanovic’s turn from breakfast compere to the far-right

Longstanding Channel Nine breakfast anchor Karl Stefanovic’s rapid transformation from “jovial presenter” to the frontman of ...

'The Only Way To Evade Difference Is To Ignore It Or To Murder It': Tabish Khair

Explore Tabish Khair’s powerful new Gothic horror novel, Drown All the Refugees, as he reflects on displacement, the ...

How World Cup watch parties in pubs and cafes became Australia's new favourite hobby

They were just supposed to be somewhere to watch the match, but World Cup viewing parties have ended up becoming so much more ...
Shortlist

9 new fiction books everyone should read this Summer

We just now learned that a celeb like Kendall Jenner actually uses an unofficial books consultant. Specifically an unofficial books consultant named Ashlea Gonzalez, whose job it is to curate hot, new ...
DownieLive on MSN

The luxury Mexican train climbing into a canyon the world barely knows

A first-class journey on Mexico’s Chepe Express reveals one of the world’s most dramatic railway routes, climbing from Los ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

The refereeing was very bad - Dalic after Croatia's dramatic loss to Portugal

"The refereeing was very bad" - Dalic after Croatia's dramatic loss to Portugal ...
Opinion

Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...