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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
Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian romp
Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm
Desert bloom: The Tennant Creek Brio
The brazen art movement born out of the troubled legacies of substance abuse and dispossession
What dreams may come: ‘Hamnet’
Shakespeare’s son succumbs to plague as Maggie O’Farrell conjures Elizabethan England
Coronavirus: cancelling culture
How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector
A study in contrasts: ‘Trois Grandes Fugues’ and ‘Black Velvet’
These performances by the Lyon Opera Ballet and Shamel Pitts at the Adelaide Festival explore the body’s formidable potential
Make ’em laugh: ‘Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming’
On surrendering to the altogether amusing madness of László Krasznahorkai’s prose