Choppy waters
Australia’s assumption that China will give up its Pacific rivalry with the US is dangerously misguided
In light of recent events
Let’s colour COVID-19 lockdown by numbers!
Oslo Davis is an illustrator and artist.
‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez
The late-life author of ‘The Friend’ delivers a chastening and discursive novel of mourning
Injustice unmasked
What are the priorities of policing protests under lockdown?
‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction
‘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
Raising the stakes: ‘Firebite’
Warwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights
