The Journal
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Jacques Cousteau: The Ocean Came Indoors
In his 1956 film, Jacques Cousteau's crew dynamite a coral reef to count the fish. He spent his last two decades fighting to protect the sea. In between, he put the ocean on television.
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On Mapplethorpe
In 1995 I walked into the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and stood inside another person's certainty for an hour. On shock, precision, and the discovery that attention is itself a position in the world.
Salt
The short ones. A reel, a fact, a small story.
An essay on the first Sunday. A note every Wednesday. Free, by email.
More essays
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A Door I Didn’t Know Was Open
A scent stopped me the other day. Sweet, then sharp, and I am already gone. Not a photograph, not a story I've…
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Paul Thomas Anderson – Characters Who Carry the Room
Anderson films the making rather than the made thing — scissors on silk, thread pulled through fabric. What follows is an argument…
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The Blue That Cannot Be Owned
Klein spent a short life trying to hold a colour, and in 1960 he registered the formula for it. Under French law…
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Patti Smith: The Patience of the Chelsea Hotel
Before the photograph and before the record, there were years in a bookstore, in museums, in a room with a single hot…
