culture
culture
comedy August 13, 2022
Writer and performer Diana Nguyen
Diana Nguyen, who has just co-adapted Alice Pung’s novel Laurinda for the stage, says laughter is the way through pain.
television August 13, 2022
A masterful comedy series takes the American dream and reveals its human cost in consistently surprising ways.
film August 13, 2022
Melbourne International Film Festival 2022
MIFF boasts some treasures in the depths of its 2022 program.
visual art August 13, 2022
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art creates new myths for a new technological world.
the influence August 13, 2022
Watching Claudio Abbado conduct the Berliner Philharmoniker taught violinist Daniel Dodds about the genius of the ensemble.
fiction August 13, 2022
The 13 seconds in which you break both your legs and reflect – but briefly – on the virtue of humility Are long. They are long . There are only 13 of them but they feel like – like minutes. Like a meaningful period of time. Not the time you’d...
books August 13, 2022
Provocations: New and Selected Writing
Many years ago, before algorithms channelled our interactions with the written word, it was possible to stumble upon the quirkiest pieces of writing. I once turned a page in The New Yorker to a very long story about American baseball. I knew little...
books August 13, 2022
Gallipoli’s power to sustain the culture wars is probably the only thing preventing the Pacific theatre from becoming Australia’s most important wartime legend. The Pacific resonates deeply with the present, as an ascendant Asian power expands south...
books August 13, 2022
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in
The power of simile and metaphor often hits its peak in the poetic line. When describing something as apparently commonplace as soil, a writer might be forgiven for unleashing all their rhetorical strategies to enliven the topic. But as Alisa Bryce...
film August 6, 2022
Director Goran Stolevski, whose film Of an Age opened the Melbourne International Film Festival, is having a dream year.
film August 6, 2022
Jordan Peele’s latest film, Nope, harks back to Spielbergian spectacle as it explores the exploitation of pain.
