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James Bradley on confronting Australia’s largest garbage dump
Episode 1443
Tucked away in a Sydney suburb is one of Australia’s largest landfill sites. Here lies a stark reminder of the millions of tonnes of waste that form …
1 year, 1 month ago
Jacqui Baker on the rise of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
Episode 1442
Indonesia’s recently sworn in President Prabowo Subianto is many things. To millions of young Indonesians, he is a daggy dancer on TikTok. But to a c…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sebastian Smee on the legacy of Alice Munro
Episode 1441
This year, Andrea Robin Skinner, the daughter of the late Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro, revealed something about her mother that h…
1 year, 1 month ago
Marian Wilkinson on Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plants
Episode 1440
Peter Dutton’s first major promise when he became opposition leader was to build nuclear power plants. It was a curious idea with no cost attached, a…
1 year, 1 month ago
Read This: The Multiple Belongings of Elif Shafak
Episode 1439
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. In this episode, from Schwartz Med…
1 year, 2 months ago
Read This: Evie Wyld Is Having More Fun Than You Think
Episode 1438
Winner of both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize, author Evie Wyld writes dark and often trauma-informed books, but she also has a remark…
1 year, 2 months ago
Read This: Leslie Jamison’s Search History
Episode 1437
Writer Leslie Jamison is celebrated for her ability to link the personal to the cultural to the critical in ways that resonate and move and connect w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Read This: Rumaan Alam on Class, Desire, and Dread
Episode 1436
Rumaan Alam is a best-selling author who made a splash in 2020 with his critically acclaimed novel Leave the World Behind. In this episode, from Schw…
1 year, 2 months ago
Read This: Nardi Simpson Is Breaking Her Own Rules
Episode 1435
Musician and writer Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay woman from freshwater country in north-west New South Wales. Her debut novel was 2020’s critically…
1 year, 2 months ago
The best movies of 2024
Episode 1434
Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year.
From the partying Russian oligarchs to …
1 year, 2 months ago