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Readers comment on GOP obstruction, national service, banning books and more

In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.

The enthralling documentary “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and...

The curtain opens and the stage is almost bare. There is a chest of drawers, a carpet and, on it, a woman holding a bundle tucked away in a blanket. “From seven in the morning to two in the (...)

The Secretary of State has appointed Nairita Chakraborty, Jane, Lady Gibson, David Laing, Sir Jonathan Marsden and Robert Sackville-West as Commissioners of Historic England for terms of four years from 1 July 2022 until 30 June 2026.

Editor Robert Gottlieb, 91, and LBJ biographer Caro, 86, remain a literary dynamic duo after a 50-year-plus collaboration.

In search of a true classic to read? Our critics choose the best novels ever written, from Flaubert to Fitzgerald, and Tolkien to Proust

The premium placed on feminine beauty means that older women often find themselves at the terrible nexus of sexism and ageism.

Old women remain the butt of jokes; they are some of society’s most marginalised people. But age also invites us to become our most authentic selves, writes Carol Lefevre.

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correc