Above politics
The JobKeeper package proves the Opposition is being constructive
July 2014
Arts & Letters
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
HarperCollins; $29.99
July 2014
Wage fright
COVID-19 isolation rules have seen artists’ livelihoods disappear
Inside the Nationals
As the National Party celebrates its centenary, its future is in the hands of bitter rivals Michael McCormack and Barnaby Joyce
Super heroes or super villains?
How the secretive trillionaire superannuation funds are using your money to reshape capitalism
Grime boss: Stormzy
The rapper and MC’s second album ‘Heavy Is the Head’ is another triumphant step bringing black British culture forward
Desert bloom: The Tennant Creek Brio
The brazen art movement born out of the troubled legacies of substance abuse and dispossession
Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm
Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian romp
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
‘Actress’ by Anne Enright
In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
‘Stateless’: ABC
A probing drama about Australia’s mandatory detention regime focuses on the dehumanisation experienced on both sides of the razor wire
‘The Bass Rock’ by Evie Wyld
The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural worldWage fright
COVID-19 isolation rules have seen artists’ livelihoods disappear
Opposing forces
Even during a time of crisis, history shows that partisan politics has a role to play
What dreams may come: ‘Hamnet’
Shakespeare’s son succumbs to plague as Maggie O’Farrell conjures Elizabethan England
AFL names of the decade
Games may be cancelled, but the names play on
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