The long goodbye: ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson deals with her father’s decline into dementia by “killing” him through various means
In light of recent events
How to draw 2020
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator and artist. Raised Eyebrows, his yearly newspaper of drawings, is out now.
The last days of disco: ‘Róisín Machine’
Róisín Murphy’s latest album is unusually mature pop driven by restlessness
‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan
The Booker Prize winner’s allegorical new novel about the permanence of loss
When the rivers run dry
Universities are in trouble, and the government isn’t helping
Serenity
Give us not serenity but a sense of urgency in the face of catastrophic climate change
Bitter pill: ‘Collective’
This staggering documentary exposes institutionalised corruption in Romanian hospitals
All things considered: Emily Maguire’s ‘Love Objects’
The Australian writer’s latest novel portrays hoarding with an acute understanding of the deeply human desire to connect
Held in common: ‘The National’ at the MCA
Foregrounding women’s practice, this exhibition of contemporary Australian art proposes a poetics of inclusion