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 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 ...

Mercy Place is closing down. I talked to the man ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by Justin Kurzel Looking through the trees and across the narrow brown river, a ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an end-of-life sexual quest “I know you are, but what am I?” So goes one of ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem A day before roads clogged with Labour Day long weekenders, I travelled to an ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast A film about a ship’s captain who abducts women, lowers them into ...