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Cannes Film Festival 2018 (part two)
Despite an off-key start, this year’s event ended on a high
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Helen Garner on life, anger and judgement
An unnatural disaster for the Rohingya
Myanmar’s systematic attack on its own people has been ignored for too long
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One man’s pursuit of a life without work
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Arts & Letters
A song cycle in 5 parts
Robert Smith and co. are celebrating 40 years of the band. Why do they still inspire such love?
The elevated horror of Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’
This debut feature will test the mettle of even the most hardened genre fans
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‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin This collection of bracing essays interrogates how we view the past
‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Six exquisite tapestries form one of the great works of medieval art
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