There is a persistent quote that stalks all music writers. Its provenance is disputed – Thelonius Monk? Clara Schumann? Laurie Anderson? Elvis Costello? – but it is widely held to settle everything: ...

That’s when I first heard the Gaza Strips. It says something of these four young men and one woman that their eponymous debut album announces itself with the left-right-left knockout punches of those ...

Luke Clarke couldn’t even make the cut for his school’s drama class, but this weekend he and his brother, Tom, will play the leads in a period piece before 3000 people – less a case of jobs for the ...

Many years ago in Sydney, moments before I was due on stage, the stage manager breezily mentioned that the composer might be in the audience. I fled to the bathroom and locked the door, scanning the ...

Incongruously featured on the cover of The Monthly’s first issue 20 years ago, the former actor reflects on homesickness and life in London In May 2005, the first issue of The Monthly hit newsstands ...

The year was 1990. It was the “Third Summer of Love”, the Happy Mondays were chanting, “It’s gotta be a loose fit”, and it looked as though high heels would never again be worn by anyone under 30.

Peter McAllister is an anthropologist and science writer from Griffith University on the Gold Coast.

Peter Mares is a journalist and contributing editor at Inside Story magazine. His books include No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis.

Luke Beesley is a poet and singer-songwriter. His latest book is In the Photograph.

Humans, they say, have a bias towards the negative – a residue from our evolutionary path through the African savannah, ever on the lookout for predators. Wary dread is wired into a consciousness ...

Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility quandaries and commitment phobia Desperate to avoid living an inauthentic, ...

A new collection of the late Australian’s observationally rich novellas and short stories cements her reputation as one of our major prose stylists In The Boarding House (1975), the second of seven ...