The strange tale of Vivian Maier has been well rehearsed by now. It has been the subject of countless articles, innumerable gallery programs, two documentaries and at least one court case. For those ...

What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

The extension of the North West Shelf gas project underscores the urgent need for nationally legislated plans for climate ...

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

Robert Manne is emeritus professor of politics and vice-chancellor’s fellow at La Trobe University. His most recent books are The Mind of the Islamic State and On Borrowed Time.

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in ...

A new album of beautifully tender, mildly psychedelic lo-fi songs from the Newcastle musician also known as Romy Church The codified e4444e shortens himself to e4 for brevity but in real life he is ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should never have been published It’s not a rare species, the New York Times ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by Justin Kurzel Looking through the trees and across the narrow brown river, a ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an end-of-life sexual quest “I know you are, but what am I?” So goes one of ...