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We share some of our favourite finds from around the internet this week.30 abandoned places that look beautifulTake a coffee break and have a long look at these eerily stunning images of 30…
We bring you some of our favourite finds from around the internet this week.Why Steven Soderbergh quit making moviesSteven Soderbergh (Traffic, Magic Mike, the Oceans Eleven series) has recently…
Our picks of the internet this week.Hannah Kent on her path to publicationThe lead article in the current Kill Your Darlings is by its deputy editor, Hannah Kent … who shot to worldwide fame last…
Our pick of the news and articles from around the internet this week.The Stella Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist has been announced for the very first Stella Prize, awarded to the best book of …
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.Wells Tower takes his dad to Burning ManWells Tower reports on his father-son trip to Burning Man, the world’s largest…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.It’s … Groundhog Day! 20 years onGroundhog Dog is one of those quietly classic films – it’s not showily clever, it didn’t win…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.Using the internet to market books in AustraliaCrikey’s Amber Jamieson has interviewed digital marketing staff at a number of…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.Lizzie Bennett: Looking good at 200 years oldIt was the two-hundredth birthday of Pride and Prejudice this week – and the New…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.Men’s magazine culture and the worst celebrity profile everThe internet has been aflame this week over what’s been described as …
We share five of our favourite links, articles and issues from around the internet this week.George Monbiot on climate change and Australia’s heatwave‘Climate change denial is almost a national…
In our last Friday High FIve for 2012, we collect five of our favourite articles and items of interest from the internet this week.Adam Mansbach’s F_ _ king Weird Year on the Bestseller ListsAdam…
We share five of our favourite links, videos and articles from around the internet this week.No, Actually: Debunking a Christmas film favouriteLove, Actually, Richard Curtis’s celebrity-packed…
It’s December – and the holiday season has kicked into full gear, tinsel decorations and all. Any day now, we’ll be hearing carols broadcast in the shopping centres. Holiday decorations are festive…
We share five of our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Why your passwords don’t protect youWired senior writer Mat Horan was famously targeted by cyberhackers earlier…
We’ve been sharing some amazing/horrifying/telling photos of the effects of climate change on social media over the past week, and judging from the response, we’re not the only ones who find it…
We bring you our five favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Playing with your foodErnie Button really, really loves cereal. He’s spent the past decade working on a series…
This week’s selection of articles and links from around the internet is animal-themed. Just because!How a Hitchcock heroine lived, filmed and slept with lionsA recent New York Times Q&A with Tippi…
During this week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney answered an audience question about creating opportunities for women in an unfortunate way.‘We took a concerted effort to go out and find women…
We share some of our favourite links and articles found on the internet this week.Mitt Romney versus Big Bird versus ObamaThe US presidential campaign has taken another bizarre pop culture twist in t…
We bring you our favourite links and articles we’ve found around the internet this week.Mad spoof of Apple mapsApple maps has to be the most embarrassing product launch in Apple history (and a…
Hey Girl, it’s Paul RyanIn the tradition of the Ryan Gosling ‘Hey Girl’ meme, lovestruck conservative ladies have started a tribute Tumblr dedicated to blue-eyed Catholic boy Paul Ryan, aka the…
Romney’s Responsibility MapRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is negotiating a major campaign obstacle, after a secret video was released of his candid remarks to a donor gathering, who…
We share our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Hey Girl, It’s Feminist ObamaFans of Ryan Gosling (does this exclude anyone?) have long been following the many tumblrs…
This week’s Friday High Five brings together a selection of our favourite recent links and stories from around the internet.‘Loose with the Truth’: Leigh Sales vs Tony AbbottThis spectacular…
Most people know that children’s author Dr Seuss used a pseudonym: his real name was Theodor Geisel. But did you know that his day job was in advertising?In this week’s Friday High Five, we share
We collect our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Olympic art: an athletic London busHere’s an eye-catching example of Olympic art, via the Atlantic: a London bus that…
This week’s Friday High Five is a visual spectacular, as we bring you five fabulous sculptures, all made out of books. Enjoy!By Robert The.By Nick Georgiou.‘A wonderfully crafted and cleverly folded …
The Wire: As Told in Lego AnimationJust when you thought you’d seen and read everything you could possibly handle about The Wire (aka The Best TV Show Ever Made), here comes something you need to…
The author strikes backPatrick Somerville’s account of his new book being panned in the New York Times seems, at first glance, like another authorial whinge about being misunderstood by entitled…
Ten signs you’re a book hipsterTake this quiz to find out if you’re a book hipster. (Clue: If you’re reading this post, the signs are that you just may be one.) Here’s a sample:1) You don’t want an…
This week’s Friday High Five is food-themed, in honour of our event with ‘liberal foodie intellectual’ Michael Pollan, next Sunday 8 July.The school lunches seen around the worldHere’s a story to…
We share our favourite internet reads and discoveries over the past weekWhy French Bookshops Don’t Get AxedThe New York Times has reported that the French are doing things differently (as is their…
We take a look at five features from around the internet that caught our eye this week. Enjoy!John Bryson on Azaria ChamberlainThis week, a Northern Territory coroner has found that a dingo was…
We take a look at our five favourite links from around the internet this week.Keep the night-light on: Terrifying French picture booksSome believe we should tread cautiously with our children’s…
This week’s Friday High Five focuses on the small screen. It’s old news that television has entered something of a golden age, with the advent of DVD box-sets enabling ongoing narratives with the…
When serious authors wear silly outfitsLooking for an end-of-week giggle? Flavorwire has published a selection of photos of writers looking silly. There’s Susan Sontag sitting at her typewriter in a …
Eyes on the PrixWinners of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica were announced this week. Celebrating artists and projects at the forefront of media experimentation and digital innovation, the awards…
Blown CoversA terrific new coffee table book by the art director of the New Yorker, Françoise Mouly, collects her favourite covers that were either rejected (often for being too controversial) or…
In another Friday High Five themed edition, we share five bookish videos from around the web that made us giggle, including looks at the art of pencil sharpening and the smell of old books, a…
This week’s Friday High Five is shameless click-bait, as we share five of our favourite internet stories, links and images of everyone’s favourite heart-throb, Ryan Gosling. Why? Because it makes us…
We share five of our favourite links to news, reviews or articles that we’ve discovered over the past week.Stephanie Guest was the student who organised the Australian literature discussion group at …
