Depending on your passion for driving, Canberra’s Summernats weekend is either a festival of craft and engineering or a noisy inconvenience ...

A community of semiretired scholars debating Ancient Greek translation provides a model of dedication in an attention-poor world ...

The Chicago indie trio’s new album of infectious weird pop unaffectedly wears its ’80s and ’90s influences on it sleeve Horsegirl is a three-piece indie band from Chicago that formed in 2019 when they ...

The respected intellectual’s writing is a reminder of a moral rigour lost to public debate and universities, replaced by populism and culture-war politics I closed the last page of Robert Manne’s ...

Investigative journalist and contributor to The Monthly Louise Milligan shares the stories of two survivors who want the world to know what Pell did to them, and how a legal strategy deployed by the ...

Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix–winning story of three hard-working women in Mumbai, and Luca Guadagnino’s steamy adaptation of William Burroughs’ 1950s novel It’s an all too familiar sight: a ...

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and bitter comic masterpiece “Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, ...

In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film derived from difficult personal experience The father is a presiding ...

The three-year-old and his salvaged metal tricycle. The orange rust on the handlebars, I scoured it with steel wool. The concrete stairs, three storeys. Gravity is a property of time. The blocks ...

The work of the great Australian documentary photographer proposes portraits as mirrors, containing both the subject and the artist I have a special love for good documentary photography. You know the ...

Picture an Australian novel about a young woman in inner city Melbourne in the early 80s, navigating a burgeoning intellectual and cultural life, an expanding sense of the world from her studies, but ...

An initially confusing remark from the author’s grandmother became a wry touchstone even as her dementia took hold I was about four when I first heard my grandmother use this expression. She kept a ...