Finding solace and surprise around a family Scrabble board with a grandmother in decline

An elegy for music, learning and impoverished culture

A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist

The trials and transcendence of packing and unpacking in order to move house

Classical music’s problem with women

The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful

What becomes of the communion of classical musicians, composers and audiences during social isolation?

Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny

C’mon, kids. It’ll be fun …

Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?

Nobel Prize–winning journalist Svetlana Alexievich brings together an extraordinarily diverse group of Russian voices

Scaling the IVF mountain in Julia Leigh’s ‘Avalanche’

Helen Garner’s work collected in ‘Everywhere I Look’

True crime and entertainment in Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

Has classical music become irrelevant?