Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding Sometimes it feels as though every Australian film is a coming-of-age story.

How the cashless society and bureaucratic management of public spaces have cleared the streets of buskers As I’m walking through the The Rocks Market in Sydney, I find myself thinking that this would ...

Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat ...

The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate Dave Win, the half-Burmese, working-class protagonist ...

The world is so vast, history so long and the vanished so countless, a person might quail to consider the living. But an artist, a visual artist intent on including himself in the practice of ...

When I talk to Charlotte Wood – fresh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a side-trip to Ireland and the news of her latest book’s longlisting for the 2024 Booker Prize – she is sojourning ...

The reality TV series following a group of Utah “mom influencers” tending to their brands after a swingers scandal makes for ...

A monograph and an international magazine highlight small Australian architecture practices innovatively exploring narratives ...

Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female ...