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Instructions for a lover
A poem
By Sarah Holland-Batt
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Nostalgia
A poem
By Sarah Holland-Batt
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Cover of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
‘A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women’ by Siri Hustvedt
Sceptre; $32.99
By Kevin Rabalais
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Image of Hans Bellmer’s The Doll
‘Nude: Art from the Tate Collection’
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, until 5 February
By Julie Ewington
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Image of Prince
Towards joy
Pop music is more than lyrics on a page
By Anwen Crawford
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Still from Black Mirror
Through the dark glass
Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ is ‘The Twilight Zone’ for our tech-obsessed times
By Luke Davies
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Image of surveillance of David Combe
Looking for moles
The third volume in ASIO’s official history confirms infiltration by Soviet intelligence
By David McKnight
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The narrator
In Zadie Smith’s new novel ‘Swing Time’, identity is always under construction
By Helen Elliott
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Image of Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory by Georgia O’Keefe
A new world for the making
‘O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism’ brings together three giants of modernism
By Julie Ewington
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Cover of Born To Run
‘Born To Run’ by Bruce Springsteen
Simon & Schuster; $49.99
By Anwen Crawford
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Cover of The Lesser Bohemians
‘The Lesser Bohemians’ by Eimear McBride
Text Publishing; $29.99
By Helen Elliott
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A survival guide for outsiders
Australian hip-hop artist Tkay Maidza brings a lifetime on the move to her debut album, ‘Tkay’
By Anwen Crawford
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Still from American Honey
Powerless agents
Andrea Arnold’s ‘American Honey’ is an exuberant, if meandering, trip
By Luke Davies
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Still from Collisions
Seeing visions
Lynette Wallworth’s ‘Collisions’ brings virtual reality to the Western Desert
By Quentin Sprague
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Roof detail of the Australian Islamic Centre
Murcutt’s mosque
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is
By David Neustein
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Image of JM Coetzee
The antipodes of the imagination
JM Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ is defined by its strangeness
By Geordie Williamson
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Cover of The Island Will Sink
‘The Island Will Sink’ by Briohny Doyle
The Lifted Brow; $29.99
By Michael Lucy
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Cover of Position Doubtful
‘Position Doubtful’ by Kim Mahood
By Kieran Finnane
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