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 ...

David Kelly is the author of Fantastic Street, a novel. He is a casual academic and works part-time in a call centre.

Luke Clarke couldn’t even make the cut for his school’s drama class, but this weekend he and his brother, Tom, will play the leads in a period piece before 3000 people – less a case of jobs for the ...

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

A new collection of the late Australian’s observationally rich novellas and short stories cements her reputation as one of our major prose stylists ...

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 ...

Incongruously featured on the cover of The Monthly’s first issue 20 years ago, the former actor reflects on homesickness and life in London In May 2005, the first issue of The Monthly hit newsstands ...

Two decades after the optimistic launch of a national magazine, the world needs context and consideration – and great writing – more than ever It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it ...

Things fall apart. Progress sours, success and victory turn to vapour, a new turmoil is wrenched into the void. Here, in these moments, I know human error is a tonic ...

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

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...

The children left behind by Australian sex tourists in the Philippines The sky bruises at the same time each day in Angeles City. Then the rain comes. The weather is so similar – steamy heat, then ...