Spectrum
How a podcast about failure became a phenomenal success
When Elizabeth Day started a podcast about failure, she thought “maybe a dozen people” would listen. Now there more than one million monthly listeners.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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This genre-defying TV show returns for a belter of a second season
The blend of dark tones and high stakes makes the second season of The Tourist crackle with energy.
- by Michael Idato
No glamour in this prize-winning portrayal of a traumatised addict
Mick Cummins steers away from any glorification of drugs in his debut novel.
- by James Antoniou
How a classic set in the Edwardian era became a modern gay epic
Playwright Matthew Lopez’s sweeping seven-hour play The Inheritance transposes E.M. Forster’s classic Howard’s End into a tale of modern-day gay New York.
- by Richard Jinman
Inside the lustful reimagining of Bosch’s garden at the NGV Triennial
Dutch art collective SMACK put a contemporary spin on Hieronymus Bosch’s famous Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Vowing to quit the socials in the new year? Perhaps art can help
Great art can move us - but perhaps it can also propel us gym-wards or away from reading the comments...
- by John Bailey
Eight books: A romantic thriller and a Zen way to face climate change
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction publications.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Tracing your family history is one thing, writing it is the knack
Graeme Davison’s beautifully written family history tells how he established his identity by default.
- by Simon Caterson
Like Kafka’s The Castle, Prague is both welcoming and entirely elusive
Initially disappointed that the Prague of my pre-Velvet Revolution childhood had succumbed to unfettered commercialism, my disappointment soon passed.
- by Bram Presser
New Year’s resolutions: The hope dose humanity needs
They start out as a goal and end like an empty shelf in a trophy case – but without them, we’d be a lot worse off. So go ahead, make your day!
- by Genevieve Novak
Why this international artist cut up his childhood drawings
Artist Petrit Halilaj was 13 when his family was forced to flee their home in Kosovo, but he found new hope in a refugee camp.
- by Stephanie Bunbury