Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Ramona Koval is a writer, broadcaster and former presenter of The Book Show on ABC Radio National. Her books include By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life, Samovar and Speaking Volumes.

How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Andrew Fuhrmann is an editor and literary critic. He is a researcher in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne and has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.

On learning that the police officer who killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, had been exonerated, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ son went to his room and wept. Coates would not ...

Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation A fourth-grader in El Lago, Texas, a coastal ...

Australia’s Tracey Moffatt leads the way at the 57th Venice Biennale Each Venice Biennale is different: this keeps us coming back every two years, for the feast-of-too-much-art, the slogging ...

The nameless teen narrator of Exploded View (Text Publishing; $29.99) may have never read a line of Larkin, but she shares with the poet a cruel knowledge of life: first boredom, then fear. Killing ...

A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life “The first thing I ever recorded was a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Crazy’,” the avant-garde musician Julia Holter tweeted ...

Luke Goodsell is a critic and editor who has contributed to the ABC, SBS and the Melbourne International Film Festival.