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Married to the tribe
Vanuatu’s Yakel people make their screen debut in Bentley Dean and Martin Butler’s ‘Tanna’
By Luke Davies
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In conscious exile
Rediscovering the novels of Randolph Stow
By Geordie Williamson
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The power of place
The personal and the political in Tim Winton’s ‘Island Home’
By Tim Flannery
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‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Text; $27.99
By Linda Jaivin
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‘The Heart Goes Last’ by Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury; $32.99
By Claire Corbett
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‘Purity’ by Jonathan Franzen
Fourth Estate; $32.99
By Stephanie Bishop
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Ferrantissimo
The femaleness of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
By Helen Elliott
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An eye for tyrants
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel takes on ‘Macbeth’
By Peter Conrad
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Standing on the outside
Cold Chisel reconsidered
By Anwen Crawford
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Don’t call me ‘Whitey’
Corruption and collusion in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’
By Luke Davies
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‘The Other Side of the World’ by Stephanie Bishop
Hachette; $29.99
By Helen Elliott
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‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’ by Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Cape; $32.99
By Kevin Rabalais
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‘A Guide to Berlin’ by Gail Jones
Random House; $32.99
By Brenda Walker
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Russia’s longest charm offensive
Catherine the Great still reigns in the NGV’s ‘Masterpieces from the Hermitage’
By Julie Ewington
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Horrors and joys
‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’ reveals the Holocaust memoirist’s extraordinary breadth
By Ramon Glazov
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Highway or driveway
Jess Ribeiro’s ‘Kill It Yourself’ and Sui Zhen’s ‘Secretly Susan’
By Anwen Crawford
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Not just a love story
Bringing Timothy Conigrave’s ‘Holding the Man’ to the screen
By Steve Dow
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‘Appetites for Thought’ by Michel Onfray
Trans. Donald Barry and Stephen Muecke; Reaktion Books; $40
By Amanda Lohrey
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