Culture

We arrive home to ten or so thornbills
under the verandah working the front step,
picking between holes in the rubber mat.
I am the half-life of their lives added
together at their maximum extent,
and the CT scan dyes my history.

David Wenham’s rendition of An Iliad brings us a weary poet cursed to retell the story of the Trojan War through the violence of the present.

Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, Ghost Elephants, follows his eternal fascination with those driven to ecstatic truths.

Composer Brian Jackson speaks of his powerful and fraught collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron, ahead of a world-first tour celebrating the late musician’s legacy.

As a visceral study of degenerate power, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather series succeeds in meeting our historical moment, where One Battle After Another fails.