The November moon was behind the clouds, a brushstroke of white in the dark, when the first song began. There were flaming torches. An arrow was shot into the east. Four fires burned in the corners of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Depending on your passion for driving, Canberra’s Summernats weekend is either a festival of craft and engineering or a noisy inconvenience If you’ve never seen a 1971 Ford XY Fairmont worth $1.8 ...

The much-anticipated return of the series sharply satirising work-life balance is convoluted but still skewers the quiet violence of the corporate world Before his script caught the attention of ...

Emma Håkansson has the sartorial elegance of a fashion model, and before her current career she worked as one, “until one of my agents dumped me”. On runways and brand campaigns since she was 15, she ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy If anyone tries to tell you what is going on in the United States, walk away ...