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  • Hannah Murray wears a red suit and white top and stands against a beige wall

    Television & radio
    ‘They tell me I am being sectioned. I am not concerned’: Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray on being sent to a psychiatric hospital

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    ‘The days I had to have sex with randoms, I thought thank God!’ Jamie Bell on eye-popping drama Half Man

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    Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe review – a rich, lyrical story told through the ‘eyes’ of a book

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    The making of hallyu: inside Korea’s global cultural phenomenon

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  • Translator Lin King, left, and author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

    ‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

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    The Boroughs review – this witty, star-packed monster show could have been made by Spielberg

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    Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!

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    ‘He had a unique ability to be human’: late-night TV says goodbye to Stephen Colbert

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    New Orleans prosecutors file formal battery charges against Shia LaBeouf

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    Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher

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    Michael Bay to direct film based on US military rescue mission in Iran

  • Jeff BezosAmazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks at the America Business Forum, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

    Jeff Bezos calls Amazon’s $40m Melania film ‘a good business decision’

Australian reviews

  • Composite of author Angela O'Keefe and her book Phantom Days.

    Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe review – a rich, lyrical story told through the ‘eyes’ of a book

  • Genesis Owusu

    Genesis Owusu: Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge review – political fury and propulsive fun

  • Book review of Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster

    Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster review – Go-Betweens frontman hits a dud note

  • LADIES FIRSTLadies First. (L-R) Sacha Baron Cohen as Damien Sachs and Rosamund Pike as Alex Fox in Ladies First. Cr. Rob Youngson/Netflix © 2026.

    Culture
    Ladies First review – Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike come last in one-joke Netflix comedy

  • a man inspects a scratch on a red van

    Film
    Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere

  • Angourie Rice stars as Emily and Spike Fearn as Owen in director Alicia MacDonald’s FINDING EMILY, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2026 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

    Film
    Finding Emily review – warm-hearted gen Z campus romcom is impossible to hate

  • A man in a green shirt wearing sunglasses with a cabin in the background

    Television & radio
    The Boroughs review – this witty, star-packed monster show could have been made by Spielberg

  • The musician Kurt Vile sitting at a table in a bar

    Music
    Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential

  • Stephen Sondheim - American Composer And LyricistStephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist, 30th November 2000. (Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

    Books
    Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master

Interviews

  • Ecca Vandal

    Music
    Ecca Vandal, the genre-defying punk-rap star on getting offline and having tea with Flea: ‘It constantly spins me out’

  • Artist Tony Albert at his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

    Art and design
    ‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art

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  • Portrait of Bob Odenkirk looking thoughtful

    ‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack

  • A person hangs upside down through a large suspended bell, their long hair falling downward

    ‘How can nudity be so provocative?’ Florentina Holzinger on rocking Venice with naked jetskiers, human bells and urine divers

  • Wallace Shawn.

    ‘A lot of people don’t think I can act’: Wallace Shawn on Hollywood, therapy and speaking out on Palestine

  • French designer Lucas Lecacheur wearing sunglasses and a shirt and tie holding his hands up

    ‘Surfers say, that board is so sick!’ The French artist redesigning the surfboard

  • Director László Nemes extends both hands toward the camera

    ‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy

  • John Lithgow embraces Olivia Colman from behind in a scene from Jimpa.

    ‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on triggers, trans rights and sexual regret

Regulars

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    10 Chaotic Questions
    Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’

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    Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month

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    Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch

  • Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder in Reality Bites

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    Reality Bites is a gen X classic where the only real enemies are capitalism and inauthenticity

Features

  • Goldie, Bananarama and boat trips with the Spice Girls: the hedonistic madness of 90s label London Records

    Two women in red halter dresses pose with three shirtless muscular men wearing white towels.
    From synthpop to drum’n’bass, the company had a roster of edgy stars – and let them do what they wanted. As a new podcast is launched, artists and staff remember the extreme work environment
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    The 100 best novels of all time: 100-1

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    double quotation markIllness narratives are broken – and they’re failing women like me

    Emma Hardy
  • A person in dark clothing views two framed colorful paintings featuring abstract figures and creatures.

    ‘I couldn’t believe we weren’t falling over ourselves for it’: Asia-Pacific art finally conquers Britain

  • Composite of images from Jack Thorne dramas

    ‘It’s not healthy for me to be doing so much’: from Adolescence to His Dark Materials, how Jack Thorne took over TV

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    The surprising face of Australia’s hidden homelessness crisis

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    How to spot a megatrend – and how to invest in one

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    From emperors to the everyday: explore ancient Rome like never before

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    No time, no space, no self? The wellbeing crisis facing the sandwich generation

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    Would you sit on this? Australian designers take on the humble chair – in pictures

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    From a waterfall cube to a field of mushrooms: Vivid Sydney 2026 – in pictures

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