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Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...
The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...
Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing that people have got going for them is imagination. At times of ...
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, ...
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 ...
No sane politician, let alone prime minister, is going to invite an encore. For this reason, various Labor strategists are starting to worry about the simmering feud between Kevin Rudd and the Murdoch ...
Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history ...
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 ...
Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...
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 ...
The debut from the latest British Art School Band delivers perfect pop with arch lyrics that owe a debt to Jarvis Cocker ...