The Times of London has just published its list of the “100 Best Books of the Decade”. Ah, where did the noughties go? …

For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.

NORTON - Wheaton College first-year students and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton share an interest.

It's Remberance Day, a moment that leaves Guy Rundle pondering the deadly, pointless, absurdity of war.

In reply to Fight Or Flight In Iran : dereklane - well said altogether. It`s the hypocrisy about Iran that sticks in the craw, and perpetuated so enthusiastically by the mainstream media and the likes of the Green Parrot above. Our own PM , Kev, just confirmed Australia`s long-term commitment to Afghanistan and the `War on Terror`. What a difference a word makes: the War of Terror really ...

Walk into the ICA this weekend and you won't find the usual contemporary art installations. For the next three weeks it's all about art with a cool comic-book twist. At the sixth Comica festival, the annual London gathering of some of the biggest international comic and graphic novel writers and artists around, hip twentysomethings will be watching their heroes drawing a collaborative comic ...

The National Book Foundation released its list of 2009 finalists for the National Book Award last month and one of the biggest surprises was the nomination of “Stitches,” a graphic novel by David Small.