A Bellini Madonna and some lines from Nabokov symbolise the broadcaster’s dedication to the transcendence and beauty of art “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, ...

If you think so, then the white goddess has a darker alter ego in her sister Dannii, an altogether more alarming figure – Parvati perhaps, her four arms flailing as she straddles a lion or tiger, her ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Almost a century later, Scandinavian timber companies began buying up vast parcels of Portuguese land to grow Eucalyptus globulus, or blue gums, to pulp for paper. The vast plantations crippled ...

The untold Aboriginal history of the R.M. Williams boot The young man looks straight ahead, both eyes fixed on the camera even as his hands feed a piece of leather through the sewing machine. Daylight ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...

Antoni Jach is the author of three novels. His recent artist’s book is Faded World: Fragments from the Description de l’Egypte.

The latest work of the American classical music superstar – famed for his subway busking experiment – is a collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra “He was a bit of a party boy,” a former ...