I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...

He began studying Chinese at 15. In his twenties he went to study the language at one of the most prestigious universities in Beijing, Qinghua. He also used to own a bar in China. He lives in ...

These Diamond Pottery bisque-head dolls can also survive a century of being immersed in water, and their faces would still look the same." Barb points to the eyes: "Those are also original - they were ...

In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...

Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...

In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as ...

As mobster murders tend to go, it lacked any vestige of glamour. A couple of violent thugs plugged each other in the back bedroom of a slum boarding house. They were both nasty pieces of work and ...

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 ...

Travelling to Dark Mofo to pursue a good night’s sleep in the company of Max Richter, an orchestra and 350 housemates It’s probably a bit rote and revolting, becoming a sleep bore. Fetishising a good, ...