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 ...

There is a persistent quote that stalks all music writers. Its provenance is disputed – Thelonius Monk? Clara Schumann? Laurie Anderson? Elvis Costello? – but it is widely held to settle everything: ...

That’s when I first heard the Gaza Strips. It says something of these four young men and one woman that their eponymous debut album announces itself with the left-right-left knockout punches of those ...

Many years ago in Sydney, moments before I was due on stage, the stage manager breezily mentioned that the composer might be in the audience. I fled to the bathroom and locked the door, scanning the ...

The year was 1990. It was the “Third Summer of Love”, the Happy Mondays were chanting, “It’s gotta be a loose fit”, and it looked as though high heels would never again be worn by anyone under 30.

Peter Mares is a journalist and contributing editor at Inside Story magazine. His books include No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis.

Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...

Luke Beesley is a poet and singer-songwriter. His latest book is In the Photograph.

Humans, they say, have a bias towards the negative – a residue from our evolutionary path through the African savannah, ever on the lookout for predators. Wary dread is wired into a consciousness ...

Cape York’s palm cockatoos teaching drumming techniques to their young are an example of the emerging field of animal cultures ...

When I moved to Australia from Canada as a child, I was struck by the shape of my new home. In Canada I had to draw maps of my native land in exacting detail. This skill atrophied at my Sydney primary ...