Stumbling Across Stones in Berlin Terror and Art: Unlikely Companions
I appeared to be standing in the midst of a mass grave. The endless rows of cold, grey, concrete steles resemble a procession of coffins...
Pretty Vacant A letter from New York
Are luxury stores the victims of success? Our most fashionable neighbourhoods appear like they’ve been looted: a third of the stores in the heart of the city are empty! This retail rot is a new form of urban blight.
In the Zone Sam Doctor’s images from Fukushima
“It’s like when parents have a missing child and they keep the bedroom in the same way.”
Suggested
Nick Cave Premonitions of Love
“The impulse was to hide. But it turns out that being forced to grieve openly basically saved us.”
You Should Be Dancing A Letter from New York
The ‘city that never sleeps’ is getting a taste of freedom again with the repeal of the Cabaret Law.
A Neighbourhood Full of Strangers Airbnb and the big business of ‘home invasion’
Neighbours in our inner-Sydney apartment block are moving out - and in again - in droves. Giving up their own beds week after week to become hosts to streams of guests...
Features
Breaking Waves: Homesick for Bondi
Adam Gibson reflects on memory, belonging and a suburb becoming unfamiliar even as he remains within it.
5 Stars for Dominick
A motel review, an old cat and a meeting with a beloved friend in a fading town in upstate New York.
The Cost of Entry: What it takes to belong now
They still live in the city, work in it and move through it every day. But as rent, distance, time and the cost of simply saying yes continue to rise, more people are quietly editing themselves out of urban life—not leaving the city, but taking up less and less room inside it.
Cigarettes & Turpentine An Ode to My Artist-Mother
She smoked Marlboro Reds and drove old cars that always broke down… She wore red lipstick religiously. She was never on time to pick me up.
Culture
Dancing with the Stones
You Am I main man Tim Rogers on meeting Mick Jagger, mobile dentists and flamboyant trousers. Blame it on the Stones.
Books That Change Lives, Apparently Iranian existentialists, chick lit grandmas and spitting in Morse code
How to win the Facebook competition to see who has the most exotic home library.
When It Is All Just About Okay John Cheever and his flower of confusion
Maybe there is the warm, uncomplicated glow that comes over us when, after so much time and so much hurt, things are finally just about okay.
Theatre of War Focus on Stephen Dupont
Award-winning conflict photographer Stephen Dupont has devised an impressive new theatrical experience entitled Don’t Look Away.
Food
Love Letter to Glasgow
“Glaswegians have more fun at a funeral, than Edinburgh people have at a wedding”
Bilson at Table My Favourite Duck
"I often view with evil intent families of ducks walking towards the ponds in Centennial Park."
Getting Southerly Busted At North Bondi RSL
The image of Bondi is one of glitz and glamour… But the salt-blasted reality is somewhat different; the old weathered remnants of what was known locally as Scum Valley still often win out.
Bilson at Table The Death of Paul Bocuse
Once Bocuse perfected a dish it remained unchanged on his menu:“If a dish was worthy of three Michelin stars in 1963 it should be worthy of the same accolade in 1993!"