Art, music and mystery abound in the Japanese author’s latest novel

Inside the hunt for the Black Saturday arsonist – an extract

The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion

Australia’s bestselling author isn’t interested in repeating herself

Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner

A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself

A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life

Charli XCX explores pop’s frontiers, new releases from Kim Petras and Robyn, and soundtracks to ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Suspiria’

The queen of reinvention turns her attention to the works of ABBA

Centenary celebrations highlight the composer’s broad ambitions and appeal

Twelve albums in, the Minnesota three-piece can still surprise in their unique way

The Queen is dead; long live the Queen

Ziad Doueiri’s tense film excavates Lebanon’s violent past

After a beguiling first act, director Bradley Cooper struggles to maintain momentum

Director Xavier Legrand and actor Denis Ménochet discuss making their acclaimed thriller

Adults will find this new tale of Winnie the Pooh surprisingly moving

Against the blinding whiteness on Australian stage and screens

The veteran director discusses his unconventional biopic and eclectic career

The best of the US, drawn from Canberra’s own collection

Audio messages from Manus Island reveal what it sounds like to live in limbo

Ten new works unsettle preconceptions about contemporary Indigenous art

Women painters are bringing the focus back to the birthplace of the Western Desert movement

An eye candy-laden, educational treasure hunt of an exhibition

The celebrated bark painter’s ethos guides this retrospective exhibition

The creator of this participatory performance is keen for the audience to add their own stories

Beckett’s knotty novel is masterfully interpreted for stage by Barry McGovern

Kate Mulvany’s adaptation proves that Ruth Park’s epic endures

Playwright Nakkiah Lui’s latest delivers comedy and carnage at a bracing pace

Technology intensifies the Brechtian in a recent series of productions

The Sydney Theatre Company production brings Brecht’s parable closer to home

A conversation with members of the Italian company ahead of their tour to Brisbane

Bangarra’s latest production explores Aboriginal Australians’ sophisticated farming practices

The Sydney Festival-bound show’s choreographer loves mixing the body with technology

Sydney Opera House (touring Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne)

Body Electric’s jazz ballet for adults

Critics give their picks for the year’s top ten

The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

Beautiful on the outside … the tragedy of Bennelong Point

Brutalist masterpiece or harbour eyesore? Sydney’s Sirius building faces an uncertain future

The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is

Durbach Block Jaggers is a practice in argument

Victoria Lee takes on the Victoria’s Secret runway

‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier’ at the National Gallery of Victoria

At the Bendigo Art Gallery

The iconic Australian brand has a new co-owner

Romance was born - ‘The Oracle’, 2011

Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?

Hamish Hamilton; $32.99

The perverse attraction of autobiographical fiction

Penguin; $29.99

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How a minor poet made a major historical error

Clive James’ ‘Sentenced to Life’ and Les Murray’s ‘Waiting for the Past’

A century of Dylan Thomas

Meeting Ko Un

Peter Steele (1939–2012)