culture
In this collection of essays, Smith shines when she’s addressing the personal
The Scottish group’s third album proves they don’t sound like anyone else
Tim Winton’s ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’
One of Australia’s most acclaimed novelists offers a painful and beautiful story of redemption
Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Death of Stalin’
This Soviet satire pushes comedy’s tragedy-plus-time formula to the limit
Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’
Reality flexes at the edges of Dovey’s second novel
Steven Spielberg remembers it for you wholesale
‘Ready Player One’ buckles under nostalgia’s weight
‘Divided Worlds’ documents wholeness
Contrary to its name, this year’s Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art emphasises unity
‘Babylon Berlin’: strangely familiar
The gripping Weimar-era police procedural feels completely in the moment
‘Human Flow’: visual metaphors cut through political apathy
Ai Weiwei’s new documentary finds new ways of seeing an accepted global trauma
Masculinity in crisis in ‘Off the Record’
Craig Sherborne’s satire could be an ingenious portrait of deluded conceit