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

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

  • Katie Redford and Benedict Salter pose for a selfie in Scenes from a Friendship

    Scenes from a Friendship review – a platonic One Day that will melt your heart

  • The Black Ball.

    The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told

  • a man inspects a scratch on a red van

    Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere

  • Quartet in Autumn review – Samantha Harvey gives new life to Barbara Pym tale of imminent retirement

  • Hulda Guzmán review – lizards and ghosts gather for an art freakout in the rainforest

  • Audiobook of the week
    Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power

  • Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen album review – Luisi has a keen sense of the operatic architecture

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

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

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

  • Christo: Air review – surprisingly profound manifestation of the wrapper’s impossible dream

  • Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt

  • Hen review – plucky chicken beats the odds in weirdly uplifting survival story

  • The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist

  • Notre Salut review – a novelistic telling of day-to-day life in Nazi-occupied France

  • Book of the day
    Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master

  • Diabolic review – Mormon-country horror takes ayahuasca down to the creepy cellar

  • Care review – this searing portrayal of dementia raises urgent questions for us all

  • A shirtless man leans against a bathtub edge while a hand wearing a ring touches his back

    The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama

    Cannes film festival: Sachs’ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malek’s mannered performance is hard to love
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