Spectrum
Story of battling stormy waters shows will to take control of life
Kathryn Heyman’s memoir of sexual violence and intimidation is a powerful attempt to regain agency and control her own narrative.
- by Fiona Wright
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The edge of something big: Nova Weetman on life, death and saying no
Teenagers like her daughter are much more aware than the YA author was at the same age.
- by Kylie Northover
Bring your garden to life with a water feature
Make the most of rainfall when it happens by redirecting rainwater pipes to nearby beds, rills and ponds.
- by Megan Backhouse
Inside the scandal that rocked New York’s rarefied art world
This documentary about an $80 million art fraud is a rollicking story.
- by Kylie Northover
I’m writing the biography of a once-feared man. Who should be more worried?
There was a time when people would react with some level of disapproval when you mentioned his name. “A thug.” “A dangerous fellow.”
- by Anson Cameron
A forest of one’s own: why even Virginia Woolf was felled by trees
Majestic yet vulnerable, trees are an enduring source of inspiration.
- by Janine Burke
David Gulpilil and me: Margaret Pomeranz, Tony Briggs and more reflect on a pioneer
Gulpilil, the man who changed Australian cinema, offers something of a final testament in a new documentary. Here, his friends and collaborators add to the picture.
- by Jake Wilson
In the 1800s, women flocked to Australia. It wasn’t the dream they were promised
The hopes and horrors of single women’s voyages, detailed in historian Elizabeth Rushen’s book Single and Free, are the subject of a new musical.
- by Sonia Harford
Fiction: Higher Ground by Anke Stelling and three more titles
The German writer’s novel about class is energised by rage and wit.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Non-fiction: Anwen Crawford’s No Document and three other titles
Anwen Crawford remembers an artist friend in a variety of literary forms.
- by Fiona Capp
We can’t tell Koorie history? Don’t tell Caroline Martin that
Caroline Martin, creative director of the YIRRAMBOI festival, wants to help her people discover their distinct culture, beyond Top End didgeridoos and stolen artefacts.
- by Kylie Northover