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‘The Topeka School’ by Ben Lerner
The American author’s latest novel canvasses the seething hate speech of the burgeoning alt-right and white-boy rap battles in the Midwest
The Art Gallery of NSW’s examination of Japan’s centuries-long artistic traditions depicting the spirit world and the macabre
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’
The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
‘The Weekend’ by Charlotte Wood
The Stella Prize–winner returns with a stylish character study of women surprised by age
The journalist’s propulsive debut novel tackles the aftermath of the Iraq War
‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre
A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns