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‘Feud – Capote vs. The Swans’ delivers camp absurdity
Plus, Ukraine through its people’s eyes, new Australian comedy on show, and ‘Shōgun’ returns in full gory glory
How systemic misconceptions around women’s guilt led to a 20-year miscarriage of justice for Kathleen Folbigg
An imagined life: David Malouf
Celebrating the literary great’s 90th birthday with a visit to his incongruous home of Surfers Paradise to discuss a life in letters
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his second Oscar nomination
Amid questions of relevance and culture war hostilities, the ABC’s charter clearly makes the case for a government-funded national broadcaster
Online misogyny touted by the likes of Andrew Tate (awaiting trial for human trafficking and rape) is radicalising Australian schoolboys
How systemic misconceptions around women’s guilt led to a 20-year miscarriage of justice for Kathleen Folbigg
‘Feud – Capote vs. The Swans’ delivers camp absurdity
Plus, Ukraine through its people’s eyes, new Australian comedy on show, and ‘Shōgun’ returns in full gory glory
In ‘House of Gods’, Sydney’s Muslim community gets to be complicated
Plus, Barnaby Joyce shines in ‘Nemesis’, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott deliver ‘Bottoms’, and Chloë Sevigny and Molly Ringwald step up for ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’.
International Film Festival Rotterdam highlights
Films from Iran, Ukraine and Bundaberg were deserving winners at this year’s festival
‘Expats’ drills down on Hong Kong’s class divide
Plus, Netflix swallows Trent Dalton, Deborah Mailman remains in ‘Total Control’ and ‘Vanderpump Rules’ returns for another season
Tax reform should not be centred on what we want, but on who we want to be
As a byelection drew the nation’s focus to the scrappy suburb of the author’s childhood, a visit revealed the damage wrought by the housing crisis
By failing to take Indigenous knowledge seriously, a scientific paper speculating on the origin of WA desert ‘fairy circles’ misses the mark
The experience of literally finding one’s voice as a non-binary person after the physical transformations of hormone therapy, and what that process meant for a sense of self
An imagined life: David Malouf
Celebrating the literary great’s 90th birthday with a visit to his incongruous home of Surfers Paradise to discuss a life in letters
Full circle: The Parramatta Aquatic Centre
The sunken circle of Grimshaw and ABA’s public pool design is a nod to Governor Brisbane’s nearby 19th-century Bath House
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his second Oscar nomination
The dread of the author: ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Argylle’
Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own
Sheila Heti’s ‘Alphabetical Diaries’
The Canadian writer’s presentation of sentence-long entries from her diaries, organised alphabetically, delivers a playful and unpredictable self-examination
The American author and critic’s essay collection moves from her gripes with contemporary cultural criticism to personal reflection
‘When I hear about the hole in the sky / Saltwater wells in my eyes’
The author is pleased to learn Julian Lennon had it wrong about a hole in the ozone layer, putting his Tasmanian childhood anxieties at ease
The ‘beige’ man behind Australia’s nuclear plan
National correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe, on the real reason why the Coalition is going after nuclear, and the factional warfare simmering underneath.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Mike Seccombe
Jonathan Lethem Is Ripping It up and Starting Again
Michael and Jonathan discuss making and unmaking the past in Brooklyn Crime Novel.
HOST Michael Williams
GUEST Jonathan Lethem
The Korean doomsday church targeting Australians
Contributor to The Saturday Paper Aleisha Orr, on the story of Nathan and what he describes as a “doomsday cult” that changed his life.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Aleisha Orr