Picking up the pieces
Anthony Albanese wants to be a Labor leader, not an Opposition leader
In light of recent events
The Teacher–Parent Interview
Oslo Davis is an illustrator and artist.
The promised land
Bougainville’s independence vote is a historic moment for Papua New Guinea, and a reckoning for Australia
Radical ambiguity: Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison
The essay collections ‘Trick Mirror’, ‘Coventry’ and ‘Make It Scream, Make It Burn’ offer doubt and paradoxical thinking in the face of algorithmic perfectionism
A way home: Archie Roach
The writer of ‘Took the Children Away’ delivers a memoir of his Stolen Generations childhood and an album of formative songs
‘Girl from the North Country’
Weaving Bob Dylan songs into a story of Depression-era hardship, Conor McPherson’s musical speaks to the broken America of today
‘The Worst Person in the World’
Renate Reinsve is exceptional in Joachim Trier’s satisfying Nordic rom-com
Family’s grief compounded by WA’s hard border
The awful predicament of a Melbourne family unable to bring home their son’s body shows the callousness of WA’s border policy
The best of 2021 on screen
This year may have been difficult to live through, but it produced an extraordinary crop of films
