Spectrum
Long before streaming, video stores offered happiness for hire
Youth groups were too holy, malls too expensive and skate parks too unpredictable when I was growing up. Thank goodness I had somewhere else to get my dopamine hit.
- by Simmone Howell
Latest
The Bear is back on TV and it’s hectic, melancholy and incredible
The much anticipated third season of the award-winning series is another wild ride.
- by Kylie Northover
Even being hit by a truck didn’t stop this author finishing her novel
Irish author Caoilinn Hughes’ new book explores grief, isolation and sibling love and rivalry.
- by Susan Chenery
This inventive debut novel is a love letter to Australian music
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases, including new fiction from Bruce Pascoe and a memoir from champion surfer Pauline Menczer.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
David Walliams on censorship, comedy taboos and his advice to Adele
Having sold more than 56 million books to youngsters, the comedian is concerned about “sanitising” children’s classics.
- by Michael Lallo
Who was really to blame for the failure of Scott’s Antarctic expedition?
More than a century after Captain Robert Scott’s Antarctica expedition, the reasons for disastrous outcome are still fiercely debated by the explorer’s devotees.
- by Dennis Glover
This republished classic captures the intensity of young love
First published in 1980, Beverley Farmer’s debut novel, Alone, reminds the reader how hard it was to be queer in Australia in the 1950s.
- by Vanessa Francesca
An intricately woven novel straddling war, love and friendship
Catherine McKinnon’s sprawling new novel, To Sing of War, interweaves several stories against the backdrop of World War II.
- by Flynn Benson
The late Jurassic Park author’s final book gets a roaring release
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases including the late Michael Crichton’s Eruption, completed by thriller writer James Patterson and a memoir of hidden sexuality in Victorian-era regional Australia.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Cancel culture is a boogeyman: feminist author Roxane Gay
The Bad Feminist author, who will appear in Melbourne and Sydney later this year, on progress for women, Trump and being recognised in public.
- by Cassidy Knowlton
Opinion
Motherhood
Is my biological clock faulty, or is motherhood just not for me?
It’s not that I hate kids. I just don’t want one of my own.
- by Genevieve Novak