Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“I never tell the Lebs but my family started off in Newtown. My father and my grandmother owned a house in Copeland street but they moved out when I was ten because they said the area was full of pooftas …
I’ve been to a marvellous party!
Writer/director Sally Potter’s acerbic comedy THE PARTY is black humour flecked with nuclear winter laughs. There’s a gun from the get go pointed at the audience and you’re under arrest for the duration. It …
Catch the Batch.
Hatched, Matched and Dispatched by Griffin Theatre, Batch Festival is a three-week fiesta of the freshest, edgiest and most inventive new shows in Sydney. An exciting crop of storytellers, poets, comedy artists and non-traditional performance makers from …
I guess it makes sense that a film about the Pleistocene era should be populated with creatures made of Plasticine.
Aardman animation has shorn itself of sheep and retired Wallace and Gromit to go back in time and stir the …
A canine quest, the catalyst of which appears to be a cat owner conspiracy to contaminate canines, Wes Anderson’s new film, ISLE OF DOGS is a sensational visual and aural experience, the funniest and furriest film you’ll see all year.…
There is no inoculation against the infectious fun of SAMI IN PARADISE. You succumb to the delirium drummed up by director Eamon Flack and his contagious company immediately.
The conceit of inmates staging Nikolia Erdman’s early Soviet era satire, The …
Are we morally whole when we allow a hell hole like the detention centres of Nauru and Manus?It’s a question conjured in the lead story of MEANJIN QUARTERLY AUTUMN 2018.
Doctor Nick Martin was a GP on Nauru working for …
Australian Independent Booksellers are thrilled to announce Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia) as their favourite Australian book from last year and the winner of The Indie Book Awards 2018 Book of the Year.
This …
Reviewing Kevin Densley’s new collection of poems, ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERSHIRT, a disclaimer might be in order, as one of the poems in the collection, Sequence of Unease, is dedicated to me.
Let it be on the record that I …
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE will not be in line for any award Peter Dutton might lend his name to.
Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his family, drifts to Helsinki as a stowaway passenger …