Spectrum
A compendium of idiotic ideas, from hacky sack to influencers
Former Chaser member Dominic Knight explores millennia of bad ideas.
- by Pat Sheil
Latest
Helen Garner’s new book celebrates the purity in observance
The Season is a the acclaimed author’s memoir-diary of her time watching her grandson’s football team. It’s Death in Venice with Sherrin balls.
- by Declan Fry
How rock’s coolest woman blew Olivia Rodrigo’s mind
Kim Deal says opening for big headliners is to “watch people find their seats”. But Olivia Rodrigo made a sweet gesture for her supporting act.
- by Michael Dwyer
Tired tropes, purple prose: Murakami’s new novel is for diehard fans only
The writing in The City And Its Uncertain Walls is so overwrought, the prose so purple, I half expected Prince to come back from the dead to sing about it.
- by Bram Presser
Romcom, horror and Indigenous romance: 2024’s best queer YA novels
The queer genre in young adult fiction is booming. Here are four of the year’s best.
- by Frances Atkinson
There are 200 dogs in this film, but only one went home with the star
Guan Hu’s film Black Dog charts the unlikely bond between an ex-prisoner and a possibly rabid stray. The result is as beautiful as that Gobi Desert landscape.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Opinion
Social media
Why I no longer feel bad about my screen time
My Weekly Report used to send me reaching for the spreadsheet. Not any more.
- by Brodie Lancaster
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Art
She died a ‘housewife’, now Ethel Carrick breaks art auction records
From the streets of Paris to the beaches of Australia, Ethel Carrick was ahead of her time.
- by Linda Morris
Are street artists like Banksy and Drez really still on the outside?
Some of their faces remain hidden, but a new exhibition brings the biggest names of street art in from the cold.
- by John Bailey
Netflix’s new political thriller may well make you paranoid
Colman Domingo stars as a high-profile political pundit who becomes embroiled in a deep criminal conspiracy.
- by Kylie Northover
She’s as funny as ever but when Ruby Wax isn’t OK, she knows what to do
The comedian and author’s “happy place″ is not what you might expect.
- by Richard Jinman