January
Marianne Faithfull, pop star and Jagger muse, dies
The fresh-faced, feather-voiced 1960s pop star went from girlfriend of Mick Jagger to a homeless heroin addict, only to re-emerge as an acclaimed cabaret singer.
June 2023
The last Great American Novelist dies
Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, claimed not to care that millions read his books.
May 2023
‘Inexplicable attachment’: Why Nick Cave will attend the coronation
The eccentric musician is one of 14 Aussies that PM Albanese will take with him to Westminster Abbey. He hopes to experience “the unique weirdness of Britain”.
January 2023
Why artists are entering copyright war with ChatGPT
What is original and who should get paid is an age-old debate being given a new twist by advances in technology.
Is ChatGPT a form of magic or the apocalypse?
The new generation of artificial intelligence has ingested an internet’s worth of data and generates content that appears to be magical. It might also be a form of creative bankruptcy from which humans never recover.
December 2022
How family tragedies give Nick Cave an awful authenticity
Death has always been a motif in the music star’s work, but the loss of two children has enlarged his heart in some way.