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The Influence May 28, 2022
A book of Torres Strait Island legends illustrated by his grandfather inspired Jimi Bani to discover his heritage.
Festival May 28, 2022
David Sornig’s piano will be engulfed in flames next month as part of RISING's “Piano Burning”, in a performance resonant with both personal and historical significance.
Culture May 28, 2022
Paul Dalla Rosa’s anticipated debut collection of stories searches for the beauty in contemporary desperation.
Film May 28, 2022
Amid the Hollywood glamour, the 75th Cannes Film Festival features its best selection of cinema for years.
Television May 28, 2022
Season four of Stranger Things bumps up the gore as it considers the anguish of growing up.
Fiction May 28, 2022
Hey man, for Rick? Yeah, yeah, thanks. Cool. How’s, ah, how’s your night been going? Yeah, same here. Good. Good. What, ah, what time did you start? Right… right… Where’d you start from? Oh, cool, yeah, that’s pretty far away, hey? You try …
Music May 28, 2022
The Australian National Academy of Music’s ambitious ANAM Set Festival offered a cross-section of contemporary classical music.
Theatre May 21, 2022
Playwright, actor and director Elena Carapetis
Playwright, actor and director Elena Carapetis’s latest project brings teenage bad-ass Antigone to the present day.
Visual Art May 21, 2022
Confined 13 demonstrates that the carceral state can’t crush the creative energy of Indigenous artists.
Books May 21, 2022
Two women meet in a cafe. One asks permission to write the other’s life “while she lives it”. The writer is a compassionate and observant interlocutor. Her subject, Jin, is wary and evasive. Their conversation examines words survivors of violence …
Books May 21, 2022
Antigone Kefala, 86, is both a poet and prose writer. She was born in Romania and relocated to Australia in 1959 after living in Greece and New Zealand. Late Journals is the final in a trilogy that began with Summer Visit (2003), followed …
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Books May 28, 2022
Louisa Lim
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
In late 2019, journalist and author Louisa Lim found herself standing on top of a Hong Kong skyscraper as a band of calligraphers painted a giant protest slogan onto a bolt of fabric. The journalist, who had grown up in Hong Kong, found herself torn. …
Books May 28, 2022
Nigel Featherstone
My Heart Is a Little Wild Thing
“The day after I tried to kill my mother, I tossed some clothes, a pair of hiking boots, a baseball cap and a few toiletries into my backpack, and left at dawn.” So begins Nigel Featherstone’s My Heart Is a Little Wild Thing. It is swiftly …
Books May 28, 2022
Ocean Vuong’s work is replete with entrances, openings, doors. In his first poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), stars are “Little centuries opening just long enough for us to slip through.” In his novel, On Earth We’re …