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Arts & Letters
‘The Rain Heron’ by Robbie Arnott
An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by “the Tasmanian Wordsworth”
‘Minor Detail’ by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
The Palestinian author’s haunting novel about an atrocity committed by Israeli soldiers in 1949
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 respond
The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
‘Fathoms: The World in the Whale’ by Rebecca Giggs
The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writing
The ripple effect: Cable Ties’ ‘Far Enough’
A big year turned on its head for the Melbourne band
Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’
What is the future of cinema without cinemas?
In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
The rapper and MC’s second album ‘Heavy Is the Head’ is another triumphant step bringing black British culture forward