Called to account
Victoria’s second wave has landed a heavy blow
August 2020
Arts & Letters
Broadmeadows
Poetry from the author of ‘The Boat’
August 2020
America’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
Milk it: ‘First Cow’
Kelly Reichardt’s restrained frontier film considers the uneasy problems of money and resources
A unitary theory of cuts
The Morrison government is using the COVID-19 crisis to devastate the public service, the ABC, the arts and tertiary educationA unitary theory of cuts
The Morrison government is using the COVID-19 crisis to devastate the public service, the ABC, the arts and tertiary education
‘Antkind’ by Charlie Kaufman
The debut novel from the screenwriter and director of ‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and more is the zippiest postmodern, self-referential doorstop you’ll ever read
The gendered pandemic
Coronavirus lockdown is undoing gains for women in employment, shared domestic labour and protection from family violence
Louisa Lawson, our first public feminist
The pioneer of publishing and women’s rights has been unjustly overshadowed by regard for her famous son, HenryAmerica’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’
The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful
The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
The heat of a moment: Ziggy Ramo’s ‘Black Thoughts’
A debut hip-hop album that calls for a reckoning with Indigenous sovereignty and invites the listener to respondMilk it: ‘First Cow’
Kelly Reichardt’s restrained frontier film considers the uneasy problems of money and resources
The summer’s tale: On Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet
Addressing climate crisis and global pandemic, the concluding book in Ali Smith’s quartet reminds us that an ending is also a beginning
Political maverick
Joel Fitzgibbon is starting to resemble Barnaby Joyce in his deliberate departure from the political mainstream
MIFF 68 ½ at home
Films by Kelly Reichardt, Ulrike Ottinger, Ja’Tovia Gary and Djibril Diop Mambéty captivate, despite a radically different festival format
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