Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...

At first glance Moonee Ponds, a suburb in the north of Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land, is all suburban brick homes, main roads and supermarkets. But 10 minutes’ walk from the train station, ...

The minute I was accepted into medical school I became, in the eyes of my friends and family, a professor of every clinical specialty, with a sideline in veterinary medicine. The calls started almost ...

I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...

The horror of Nazi officialdom is laid bare in Matti Geschonneck’s latest film I moved to Berlin in 2007 and, needing work, spent my first few months in the city painting the guest rooms of a newly ...

Music writing can also be lovely and fascinating, though too often it is not. In his Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion, the American pianist and musicologist Charles Rosen describes some of ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...

It’s tempting to think Pauline Hanson chose Malcolm Roberts because he looks like a puppet. Barely five feet tall, One Nation’s second senator for Queensland perches beside me on a Parliament House ...

Despite more than 25 years of anti-discrimination legislation, it remains the case that the higher up any organisational ladder you look, the fewer women you see. In Australia, for example, women made ...

An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot Like the 1960s, the 1990s were a break-out period for sexuality in pop culture. Basic Instinct, topless Calvin Klein ads and widespread ...

When I did my first movie,” says Joel Edgerton, “when I did Praise I thought, ‘This is it.’ Actually, even before that! My first-ever job was playing Ben Mendelsohn’s little brother in an episode of ...