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
On this bro-heavy set, Jodie Comer runs rings around them all
The Killing Eve actor plays a charming outlaw in her latest film, The Bikeriders.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Country pop has taken over the charts – good god, why?
Genuine musical superstars – exceptional voices, charismatic presences, excellent lyricists – have been dulled and flattened, their voices muted and their lyrics uninspired.
- by Tom W. Clarke
Bon appetit! We rank the best on-screen chefs
The Bear has confirmed one indisputable fact: Restaurants are the best setting for onscreen drama.
- by Robert Moran
Opinion
Illness
I thought the human body was beautiful, then I went to the chemist
I’ve suddenly seen the local pharmacy for what it is: a house of pain.
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
WordPlay
I watched it for research. So was I unsatisfied or dissatisfied with The Fall Guy?
Who says you can’t have fun with words at the multiplex?
- by David Astle
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