Culture
With their two new other-worldly albums, Shabazz Palaces continue to evade categorisation
Laura Poitras’ ‘Risk’ sidesteps the biggest question about Julian Assange
Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ was worth the 20-year wait
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar String Quartet meet some of Melbourne’s youngest musicians
The return of Lorde, Frank Ocean and Radiohead live in Denmark, ‘OK Computer’ at 20, and more
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
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