Culture
‘Dad kicked me out and sent me back to my mother’: Martha Wainwright
The Canadian musician opens up about the men in her life, including her father Loudon and brother Rufus.
- by Jane Rocca
Movies
★★★
Review
A beautiful jigsaw puzzle of a film that will ultimately move you
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda takes his time unfolding this complex story.
- by Jake Wilson
How Anya Taylor-Joy took over Australian cinema’s most iconic franchise
The Hollywood star spent more than six months in Sydney ensconced in George Miller’s dystopian Mad Max universe, and lived to tell the tale.
- by Robert Moran
TV & radio
How Hacks reunited its odd-couple besties for a knockout third season
The insults and heartfelt affection between comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and upstart writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) continue with the return of the brittle comedy Hacks.
- by Craig Mathieson
Why is Jeremy Clarkson still on TV?
He comes across as an anti-government, right-wing, petrolhead blowhard, but Clarkson’s Farm reveals the controversy-prone journalist and presenter has a more complicated X-factor.
- by Ben Pobjie
Music
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Live music
New rule could force superstars like Taylor Swift to promote Aussie musicians
- by Thomas Mitchell
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Live music
This program is supposed to support live music. So why are venues so angry?
- by Karl Quinn
Live reviews
Carnival meets dark fairytale in this intriguing musical
- by Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Andrew Fuhrmann
Drunk, grumpy and racist: Untangling the problematic genius of Patricia Highsmith
- by Chantal Nguyen, Daniel Herborn and John Shand
★★★½
Review
Nothing is sacred in this side-splitting ‘coming-of-clown’ story
- by Shamim Razavi, Michael Bailey, Millie Muroi, Daniel Herborn and Kate Prendergast
Celebrity
Stage
Opinion
Musings
I signed up for a one-way ticket to hell and (somehow) came out transformed
- by James Colley
Art & design
Mona heads to Supreme Court in fight to keep Ladies Lounge for women
- by Gabriella Coslovich
Books
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Literature
The Weirdo books once had a ‘prettiest girls list’. Now, they are re-recording the audiobooks
- by Kerrie O'Brien and Marika Dobbin-Thomas