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Nuance lost as All the Light We Cannot See fails to make leap from page to screen
This Netflix adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s sweeping novel All the Light We Cannot See swaps intricate storytelling for wartime action scenes.
- by Kylie Northover
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I dreaded seeing Miss Saigon again. Then I realised things had changed
Long criticised for its racial stereotypes, the musical is reimagined by a superb cast of Australian-Asian performers.
- by Shirley Le
What to read: A meditation on grief and Dawn French’s life of mistakes
Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp review recent fiction and non-friction releases
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Was Bennelong Australia’s most misunderstood Indigenous man?
Kate Fullagar tells history in reverse in her innovative biography of both Captain Arthur Phillip and Woollarawarre Bennelong.
- by Phillip Deery
You’re a unicorn: Here’s why I don’t want to write about you
Your dreams, your dad, your sister’s drawings. They’re just not that interesting.
- by Anson Cameron
‘Not for the fragile’: Film charts Nick Cave and co’s ascent into hell
Forty years after it all ended, the Birthday Party’s rise is retraced in Mutiny in Heaven.
- by Michael Dwyer
‘Frankly I’m nervous’: Game of Thrones star daunted by new Australian role
Owen Teale admits to “something a bit scary” inside him. So why is he so nervous about playing Scrooge in Melbourne?
- by Richard Jinman
From warfront to wardrobe: the details that once meant life or death
From the bloody history of the humble white T-shirt to the trench coat, fashion owes a debt to wartime uniforms.
- by Melissa Singer
Precision not pedantry: how to become a better writer
Two new how-to guides offer practical tips for writing well.
- by Simon Caterson
Is Gerald Murnane our most talented writer?
In this thoughtful Monograph, Emmet Stinson considers Gerald Murnane the best writer Australia has produced since Christina Stead.
- by Owen Richardson
This piercing novel is a paean to living with chronic pain
Katherine Brabon’s new novel is a poetic reflection on living with pain.
- by Vanessa Francesca