Spectrum
John Waters: 'They're not saying you look like the back of a bus'
After nearly 50 years of being Australia's favourite bit of English crumpet, John Waters can finally see the funny side of sex appeal.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Latest
Shaken to the core: the untold story of Sidney Nolan at Auschwitz
In the lead-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, previously unseen images evoke the visit that devastated the legendary Australian artist.
- by Andrew Turley
REVIEW
Literature
Fiction: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job and three more titles
Kikuko Tsumura's novel about one woman's experiences in the world of work is quietly funny.
- by Kerryn Goldsworthy
REVIEW
Literature
Non-fiction: On Connection by Kae Tempest and three other titles
Kae Tempest's thoughtful essay examines creativity as an electrical current.
- by Fiona Capp
Review
Literature
Why we're animal crackers – and what we can do to save them
Some of the close encounters with Australian fauna captured in this collection can be fleeting but life-defining.
- by Natasha Mitchell
REVIEW
Literature
The polished gems from Shirley Hazzard's trove of sparkling stories
The New York-based Australian writer's complete short fiction reveals her intellectual confidence and stylistic control.
- by Susan Wyndham
'The trickle went down my face': Naomi Watts on working with magpies
The two-time Oscar nominee coped with darkness and birds in the movie Penguin Bloom, the true story of a northern beaches woman paralysed in a holiday accident.
- by Garry Maddox
Suncream and slippery dips, the slippery slope of a Sydney summer
Ask anyone who slid down a slippery dip, summers were hotter when we were kids.
- by Richard Glover
★★★★
Marvel
Bewitched by an Android: WandaVision is a twist on sitcoms past
One of the most anticipated series of the year, WandaVision, is an addictive pastiche of sitcom tropes and subcutaneous horror.
- by Michael Idato
'The artists may not all like each other but they all liked Lucio’s'
For 37 years Australia's leading artists have eaten, got drunk, argued, and loved at Lucio Galletto's restaurant. At the end of an era, they tell why.
- by Susan Wyndham
Forget Bridgerton's fake wisteria: our pick of the top silver-screen gardens
If I am to be seduced by a vision of sensuality and romance, with a smattering of scandal and danger, I want real flowers.
- by Robin Powell