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Arts & Letters
‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre
A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Tasmanian torments: Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’
The Babadook director talks about the necessity of violence in her colonial drama
How can we be transformed by music if online platforms mean we will always remain ourselves?
Our largest sexual organ: Amee Baird’s ‘Sex in the Brain’
We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives
‘Monet: Impression Sunrise’ at the National Gallery of Australia
Impressionism’s namesake painting is at the heart of a masterful collection from the Musée Marmottan Monet
‘The White Girl’ by Tony Birch
An emotionally eloquent novel about the necessary inheritance of strength in Indigenous women
Happy trails: Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’
The gay country-rapper exposes the complex play of identity, algorithms and capitalism
Popcorn maker: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’
The tide may have turned against the director’s juvenile instincts and misogynist violence