In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...

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

The untold Aboriginal history of the R.M. Williams boot The young man looks straight ahead, both eyes fixed on the camera even as his hands feed a piece of leather through the sewing machine. Daylight ...

In the days of bipartisan shock that followed the 2019 federal election, when the Coalition and Labor were asking themselves the same, simple question – what the hell just happened? – a senior member ...

Well. Where to begin to approach this dazzling writer? Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish writer who won this ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...

In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...

In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as ...

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 ...

Quadrant turned 50 this month. That is a notable achievement, and it did not go unnoticed. Its golden-anniversary dinner, held in October, was apparently quite an occasion. It was not cheap to get in, ...