By Toby Fehily Birds are an enduring symbol of death across many cultures. So why, asks Toby Fehily, are they rarely seen dead themselves?

By Sheila Heti Sheila Heti has 27 answers to the question of how often you should Do It. (Contains some explicit language.)

By Estelle Tang As Rookie staff writer Estelle Tang watches her friends raising children, she turns to literature to guide her thinking about a very thorny question.

Is it even a legitimate form of language/communication that warrants any sort of scientific study? — By Sam Wallman As The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions approaches, we are putting your best questions to some of our favourite thinkers. Musing on the modern art of emoji, we have Walkley-nominated comic artist Sam Wallman, responding to a question from @toastfor_dinner.

At a recent event in Melbourne, Anita Sarkeesian shared her arguments for an improved video games culture — as well as the abuse she’s received for expressing her views, and her ideas for improving the diversity, safety and freedom of online culture. …

Writers are expected to participate in informal, off-the-cuff online conversations, but find their tweets and status updates held to impossible standards. Connor Tomas O’Brien asks whether authors now find it difficult to speak honestly online — and what the implications might be for our broader cultural conversations. In So You’ve…

The saturation of the internet with crowdfunding campaigns is forcing project creators to resort to narrative tricks to lure in potential backers — and we’re falling for them. Oscar Schwartz scours the playbooks of digital marketing gurus to explain why some crowdfunding campaigns fare better than others. This a story…