It is likely that Austen met one of her earliest romantic interests at a Christmas party.

Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

Jane Austen’s interconnected webs of thought and feeling help readers to better understand other people.

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum

If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks

The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer

As a computer scientist, I would hope that human creativity is more than regurgitating what others have written.

Enchanting. Mysterious. Riveting. Book blurbs have been a mainstay in publishing, designed to persuade readers to pick up a book. But now, some authors and publishers are opting to forgo them.

While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all

Many local award-winning authors first found a home at a small publishing house, but as yet another is subsumed by one of the ‘big five’, there are fears for the writers of the future

Restoration demands a marriage of scientific and technical expertise with knowledge of art and incredible patience

Letters: Cancelling degree courses on the subject is a form of cultural vandalism, says Linden West. Plus a letter from Diana Hirst

Preparations for this 700-year-old tradition, which ushers in a special year of forgiveness for Catholics, are nearing completion. Will it all be worth it?

Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing