How culture outlives strongmen and rewrites history to win the war over imagination Photo by Dylan Shaw on Unsplash Tinpot dictators fucking hate art. Given where the world seems to be headed, that fact both empowers and terrifies me. Because for people like me, it means there’s work to be done. But it also means …
Why I didn’t. And why authenticity still matters in an AI-saturated world. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible.” So says Adam Mosseri, head honcho at Instagram. You reckon? Yeah, nah. I call bullshit on that. As a writer, I’ll die on this hill. Authenticity, by its very nature, cannot be replicated. I think what Adam meant …
A historian’s warning: when society tells women to ‘play nice,’ it never ends well, and today, the warning signs are all around us. Oh, 2026. We had such high hopes for you. But the party’s definitely over. A week in, and I’m already done. WTF is happening in Venezuela? Then there’s all the sabre rattling …
Is it a writer’s dream? Or a writer’s nightmare? It starts as a spark of an idea that grows into something more concrete. As I start to write, imagined worlds appear on the page. The words become something else as characters step out of a fog and take form. The story evolves and the things …
Sunday Reilly and why she’s all out of f*cks to give this New Year’s Eve From Sunday Reilly’s journal: 2025: The Movie. ⭐️✩✩✩✩ Would not recommend. That’s the polite way to describe the clusterfuck in a flaming dumpster fire on a slow-moving train wreck that was 2025. Thank Christ Queen Lizzie wasn’t around to see …
Coal was handed out. Heroes were named. And a horse made the list. Merry Christmas. Ah, Christmas Eve. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. So, I’ve been writing my naughty and nice list and checking it twice. There are plenty of both, because 2025 has been… a thing. I started looking back on …
A free e-copy of my latest novel, “Sunday Riley is All Out of F*cks to Give” Exciting news! I’ve been given a link to a free preview copy of my e-book, SUNDAY RILEY IS ALL OUT OF F*CKS TO GIVE and told to share it with friends who might want to read it in advance …
In the aftermath of the Bondi attack, Australians respond in a way that reveals something profound about our national identity. It was the vision that gripped the world A passer-by tackles one of the Bondi shooters, wrestles him to the ground, and grabs his gun. In a moment of extraordinary bravery, that man put his …
The art of storytelling and why it’s not going to die anytime soon Once upon a time, there was a moment in human history when one of our ancient ancestors looked down at her or his hand and thought, “What the fuck am I? Where did I come from? What am I doing here? And, …
When the world’s biggest oinker called seasoned White House correspondent, Catherine Lucey, “piggy,” the world was horrified.
Of the many stains on the soiled toilet-paper roll of horrors Donald Trump has delivered, I don’t know why this one upsets me so much. But it does. And I know I’m not alone.