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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

While Roger Michell’s final film pairs Jim Broadbent with Helen Mirren in a dignified, grown-up cinema, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns with a juvenile sci-fi sex-comedy It never fails to amaze me that the ...

Earlier this year, writer and media personality Wendy Harmer embarked on a tour of the 21 surf clubs on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. She recounted her disappointment in a Sydney Morning Herald article: ...

Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson Dutton country does the best wild dog signs. They start a few minutes’ drive out of the village of Samford, ...

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: ...

His name carries a cultural cachet rarely granted writers today, much less those of the literary variety. As a brand, Haruki Murakami infiltrated the West with the English translation of The Wind-Up ...

There’s a lot for the people of Timor-Leste to be hopeful about, as Peter Robb’s narrative attests (‘Autumn of the Patriarch’, April). But while José Ramos-Horta has undoubtedly done much to create a ...