May, 2022
David Simons, creator of ‘The Wire’, returns to Baltimore for a present-day examination of rapacious police corruption
May, 2022
Robert Lukins’ second novel takes a Brisbane woman to Nebraska, where an inheritance sparks a change in character as well as in fortune
April, 2022
Barrie Kosky’s Adelaide production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera satirising the Russo-Japanese War came with uneasy resonances
April, 2022
A sardonic Gary Oldman heads a misfit branch of MI5 in Apple TV+’s thrilling exploration of personal motivation and political expedience
November, 2021
The Irish novelist’s latest ponders creativity and the unacknowledged life of Thomas Mann
November, 2021
SBS’s Australian goldfields series looks beyond colonial orthodoxies to tell the neglected stories
October, 2021
‘Bewilderment’ by Richard Powers
The Pulitzer winner’s open-hearted reworking of ‘Flowers for Algernon’, updated for modern times
October, 2021
‘Scary Monsters’ by Michelle de Kretser
Two satirical stories about fitting in, from the two-time Miles Franklin winner
September, 2021
‘Beirut 2020’ by Charif Majdalani
The Lebanese writer’s elegiac journal captures the city’s devastating port explosion
September, 2021
‘Harlem Shuffle’ by Colson Whitehead
The author of ‘The Underground Railroad’ offers a disappointingly straightforward neo-noir caper set in the early ’60s