In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film ...

The respected intellectual’s writing is a reminder of a moral rigour lost to public debate and universities, replaced by ...

Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix–winning story of three hard-working women in Mumbai, and Luca Guadagnino’s steamy ...

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and ...

The people generally referred to as Negritos were once widely dispersed across South-East Asia. Today, they are found in the ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...

The latest in a series of poems about Melbourne neighbourhoods ...

As the Catholic Church finds a new legal defence against child sexual abuse charges, disgust with the late cardinal George Pell’s glorification has now led some of his own victims to come forward and ...

Is a biennial indigenous festival in Taiwan an attempt to atone for the grim truth of a people’s extinction?

When the case concludes, the essay will be made available to readers once again. The Monthly stands by Louise and her journalism and remains extremely proud of the essay as vital and compelling ...

Michael is joined by Alan on Zoom to discuss his life and career and why this book is as close as Alan will get to writing his own memoir. As if finding the time to read wasn’t hard enough, working ...

The Irish author’s tendency to blend literary and popular fiction is again evident in her latest novel, another tidy love story ...