The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...

In the middle of the night, in the company of “C”, an animal activist, he goes into a turkey shed to see what factory farming is like. He is distressed by the numbers of obviously sick and dead birds ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an ...

Where a perpetually bloated and red-faced Jax spent most of the first season berating Brittany for drinking too much, he’s ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

The year is 1830. William IV has ascended the British throne and Andrew Jackson is US president. France is in revolt after Charles X attempted to restore the absolute power of the monarchy. Joseph ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

When Kevin Rudd was returned to the leadership of the Labor Party, quite a lot of voters were pleased. This was gratifying to the party chieftains, but the person they watched most anxiously was not ...