This essay is a commentary on the nature of leadership and its role in modern politics.

"The Bright Shapes and the True Names" is an autobiography-to-date by a man of many parts, a natural extrovert who has directed three major art galleries, as well as having been a youthful Monash professor. As the title, ...

The latest interpretation of Patrick White's work comes from Helen Verity Hewitt, who builds convincingly on her assumption that '[i]n his writing White is constantly attuned to the possibility of borrowing from the visual ...

Tom Griffiths, one of our most stylish and imaginative historians, has now produced a loving book about the mountain ash. These great Victorian forests are read under a number of rubrics, linking the natural environment ...

Art is a strange posing of discoveries, a display of what was no more than possible. For it is the task of the creative artist to come up with ideas which are ours, but which we haven't thought yet. In some cases, it is ...