Culture

Even on gentle days, waves thrash up the front beach without ceasing. But the estuary is a flat, bright thread of quicksilver that advances and retreats, traversed by geese overhead and stingrays below.

Bits of your old life resurfacing, as if: Ready yet?

And didn’t you live or dream this already?

For instance, years ago, when you thought you were writing about another town, but it was clearly this one:

the girl with the dog on the beach

the strangers’ weekender filled with gaudy holiday house tack

the ungendered narrator doing a bad job of drying out, recovering from some unspecified wreckage

From listening to triple j as a Perth teenager to Eurovision stardom, the metal band Type O Negative has always been there for Voyager’s Danny Estrin.

Azealia Banks sparked a controversy about the lack of Australian acts in local music charts – but the American rapper has a point.

Clare Barron’s Shhhh, directed at Red Stitch by THE RABBLE’s Emma Valente, is a densely layered and intelligent meditation on how weird human sexuality can be.

The ‘perpetual revolution’ of Mexican Modernist art is on full display at the Art Gallery of  South Australia, including the mischief, joy and pain of Frida Kahlo’s iconic work.

In My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, her first album with The Johnsons since 2010, the acclaimed singer, visual artist and activist ANOHNI sets her sights on biblical patriarchy.