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Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona

Image: The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1592). Public domain Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....

Alex Cameron announces Australia & New Zealand headline shows – November/December 2022

ALEX CAMERON ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND HEADLINE SHOWS – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 First AU/NZ live shows since March 2020, which saw venues sell out in...

Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading

Image: Victoria_Borodinova from Pixabay My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow...

Sunday essay: sex, swimming and smudgy louvres – watching Monkey Grip 40 years on

Image: An early poster for Monkey Grip, starring Noni Hazelhurst and Colin Friels. MIFF The woman’s name is Nora, and she’s getting out of the pool...

Jennifer Down wins the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award with Bodies of Light, a shattering novel of loneliness and heartbreak

Image: Jennifer Down. Photo: Monique Ferguson Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light is a shattering novel, one that breaks and then rebuilds its readers. It has won the 2022...

Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley’s tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life

Image: Kevin Laminto/Unsplash Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several...

Gwen Harwood was one of Australia’s finest poets – she was also one of the most subversive

Image: Gwen Harwood (1920-1995). A.T. Bolton/Wikimedia commons Gwen Harwood is one of Australia’s finest poets. Her poetry is studied in secondary schools across the nation. While...

Abbotsford Convent transformed into outdoor art exhibition with Interspecies — August 26–Oct 22

Interspecies and Other Others Projections, installations and performances  For the first time Abbotsford Convent to be transformed into an eclectic and contemporary free outdoor art exhibition   26 August...

Sunday essay: beyond ‘girl gone mad melodrama’ — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers

  Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train has sold 23 million copies, and the film adaptation was a box office smash. DreamWorks Pictures/Universal...

Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac

 Picture: Unsplash/Juan Di Nella Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020,...
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