The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

Where a perpetually bloated and red-faced Jax spent most of the first season berating Brittany for drinking too much, he’s ...

A passionate argument for the beauty, practicality and inspiration of paper maps, as tools for planning, exercises in memory, and records of where you can go, where you are and where you have been ...

Ken Haley is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.

When Kevin Rudd was returned to the leadership of the Labor Party, quite a lot of voters were pleased. This was gratifying to the party chieftains, but the person they watched most anxiously was not ...

Accurate or not, Hirst’s words were powerful. They still are. They speak of a nation still looking for its “republican moment”, and still seeking new symbols, songs and laws, to replace an old ...

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green.