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, ...

Deborah Levy’s latest ‘living autobiography’ finds her travelling and contemplating home, family and art’s revolutionary potential Deborah Levy is dreaming of a grand house with a circular staircase, ...

A piece of motherly prompting, at first dismissed but later embraced, helped in the author’s life and her writing I was a shy teenager and Mum had to propel me out the door to the few social ...

Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’ and John Hillcoat’s ‘The Road’ Malik is a mutt, of Corsican and Arabic descent. His Muslim cousins want nothing to do with him, while the Corsicans think he’s a “dirty ...

They were new chums, fresh off the boat. Daisy May O'Dwyer was 20, the porcelain-skinned daughter of a drunkard doctor from Cashel. Edwin Henry Murrant, a year younger, was English and claimed to be ...

At the Royal Albert Hall in 1996, Kylie Minogue had an awe-inducing glimpse of the vacuum that she exists to fill. Nick Cave, after clubbing her to death in the video for ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’, ...

I read with interest the cover story on my cousin James Packer (February) and would like to clarify a few items in reference to my father, Clyde Packer (Kerry’s older brother), who died in California ...

The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a ...

Every few weeks, unusual packages arrive by post at the University of Adelaide. Sent by dutiful citizen scientists across Australia, they contain biological material that has shed light on the ...