Sean Kelly

What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Engrossing, illuminating and often disquieting – Niki Savva It's been almost impossible to get a handle on Scott Morrison. Until now. Sean Kelly has done it, comprehensively. – Barrie Cassidy What happens when the prime minister views politics as a game? A must-read account of a man, a...

The 100th issue of Australia's leading agenda-setting journal of politics, culture and debate In Quarterly Essay 100, Sean Kelly considers the strange transitional moment we are in. We seem sick of neoliberalism but afraid of what might replace it. We are obsessed with work but resentful of it; desperate for community but stuck inside our phones; protective of our way...

A Deep Dive into the Wildest Electric Guitars of ’70s and ’80s Hard Rock From Flying V to Firebird, Explorer to Warlock—this is the untold story of the most outrageous guitars in rock history. Why did rock’s greatest guitarists choose instruments that looked like weapons, spaceships, and abstract art? In Battle Axes, guitarist and music historian Sean Kelly explores the...

The tale begins over three hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous...