Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts

The Final Thought: You think you're controversial Milo Yiannopoulos? You got nothing on Kathy Griffin

This month, a reality check for a bleach-blonde right-wing hack.

Features / Arts

Maggie McKenna Brings Australia's Daggy Sweetheart, Muriel Heslop, To The Stage

"There's nothing more exciting than being able to play a woman who is flawed"

Features / Arts

Sydney Festival's Wesley Enoch Is The Playful Polemic Disrupting The Status Quo

"Surely the point of art is to look at a situation and ask, 'Where is the conflict? Where is the drama? Where is catharsis?'"

Features / Arts

How Taylor Mac Restored My Faith

For four life-changing nights during this year's Melbourne Festival, Taylor Mac took me to church. And it could not have come at a more important moment.

Features / Arts

Art Gallery Of Ballarat Celebrates The Power Of The Human Skull

"Whether you were the poorest of the poor or a member of the royal family, no one is beyond the grasp of death"

Tree Of Codes (Melbourne Festival)

"A wondrous, kaleidoscopic spectacle, that requires nothing more from its audience than well-deserved awe."

Features / Film & TV

Louis Theroux

TV Addict: Louis Theroux Explores The Dark Heart Of America's Heroin Crisis

"I'd never take heroin, obviously. But there is some curiosity; there's a part of you that wants to understand that rush."

All The Sex I've Ever Had (Mammalian Diving Reflex, Melbourne Festival)

They say we can learn a lot from our elders. This show proves it.

Caravan (Melbourne Festival)

"Theatre-mavericks Susie Dee and Nicci Wilks are two of Australia's most fearless artists"

Under Siege (Yang Liping Contemporary Dance, Melbourne Festival)

"A mesmerising fusion of ancient history, traditional folk craft and 21st-century invention."

Features / Arts

Freak Shows: The Boundary Busters Bringing Experimental Theatre To Melbourne Festival

Think you know theatre? There're a few productions headed to the Melbourne Festival that beg to differ.

Features / Arts

The Compass Is Broken: Welcome To The Age Of Post-Hypocracy Politics

As the political mainstream has become a moral hinterland, has our sense of humanity been overcome by a blindness to hypocrisy?

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