Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

It was a top-secret intelligence report written in 1943. But it could have been written today. It’s fucking inevitable. As a day of reckoning looms on the horizon, the ship will spring a leak or twenty. That’s because rats aren’t renowned for hanging around and going down with all hands-on-deck. They start to look around …

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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 …

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