Spectrum
Meet Laufey, TikTok’s hottest jazz ambassador
Blending bossa nova and Taylor Swift, the 24-year-old Icelander’s debut Australian tour sold out in minutes.
- by Michael Dwyer
Latest
Naked, ‘wild’ and elusive: Pierre Bonnard’s muse keeps us guessing
Was Marthe Bonnard a jealous, obsessive wife, or an artist in her own right? On the eve of the NGV’s winter blockbuster, we uncover the woman behind the canvas.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Mystery Road star’s ghosts: ‘sometimes I can feel them nearby’
In-demand actor Mark Coles Smith has returned to his home in WA, where he says his relationship to time and space changes.
- by John Bailey
From Sex and the City to Emily in Paris: Patricia Field on screen
The acclaimed New York stylist and costume designer reveals her best-dressed secrets in an upcoming memoir and documentary.
- by Damien Woolnough
What happens when 15 orphans go searching for their inner Batman?
Bambi and Batman bring a fairytale framework to a playful exploration of loss.
- by John Bailey
Opinion
Performing arts
Opera? It’s really just Home and Away with music
The best way to disguise the banality of the plot is to sing it in a language no one understands.
- by Anson Cameron
★★★
Review
Arnie is back in his first-ever TV role - and little has changed
Arnold Schwarzenegger remains completely on-brand in his TV debut as the star of this comedy spy caper.
- by Kylie Northover
A dazzling Nigerian novel and a history of undersea exploration
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Could wannabe writers be the next reality TV stars?
With the Literary Death phenomenon being made into a television pilot, perhaps authors will be the next big thing on TV.
- by Jane Sullivan
Can we still love the work of those we’ve cancelled?
After her viral 2017 Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?, critic Claire Dederer considers how we should respond to art made by dreadful people.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Witchcraft and a mother’s guilt: film probes a shocking French crime
Filmmaker Alice Diop became fascinated by the trial of a woman who left her baby on a beach to die.
- by Jake Wilson