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Robert Dessaix’s ‘The Pleasures of Leisure’ is a 21st-century defence of idleness
Is the factional infighting just growing pains or symptomatic of an identity crisis?
The return of Lorde, Frank Ocean and Radiohead live in Denmark, ‘OK Computer’ at 20, and more
The Indigenous community spoke as one at the recent Uluru constitutional convention. “It was decisive and left no doubt about what people wanted,” writes Megan Davis in this month’s issue. It also brought “clarity and coherence to a discursive process that has rambled on for ten years”.
There were some scurrilous...
With each season, ‘Better Call Saul’ feels more like a corrective to ‘Breaking Bad’
Malthouse Theatre’s ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ is an exciting but nihilistic condemnation of how contemporary feminism has been derailed
What does the government think it will achieve with its proposed reforms?
Hobart’s Dark Mofo is an illuminating reflection on myth, ritual, sex and death
Ian Potter Museum for Art’s ‘Vertigo Sea’ and ‘I was born in Indonesia’ are very different answers to the same question
‘PACmen’ is a good old-fashioned look at the absurdities of US politics
Rachel Seiffert’s ‘A Boy in Winter’ chronicles the physical and psychological brutality of war from multiple perspectives
‘Macbeth’ at Melbourne Theatre Company attempts to draw on the tension between high and low art
The streaming giant is paying big money for big names as it expands into film, but will that be enough?
