Culture

The man asks questions the boy cannot answer. Sometimes, such as now, on the highway late at night returning home from Sydney, it’s like playing Tetris in one’s head. Dangerous against the oncoming traffic.

This major new exhibition of Australian women modernists is a history of heroic self-authorship, and of erasure.

Abou Sangaré drew from his own life as a young man seeking a better life in France for his lead role in The Story of Souleymane, which opens in Australia this week.

Judy Davis finds the humour in Helen Garner’s quietly seething protagonist in a newly adapted stage production of The Spare Room.

Based on a late 1950s comic strip, Netflix’s new series The Eternaut is a stunning science fiction parable about resisting fascism.

My heels and toes pressed into barnacled rocks, sharp grey edges poking into my yellow feet, as I waited for flickers of colour to pass through the rock pools. I squatted down, my breath heavy and slow. Cold salt water drooled down my soaked braid and along my sun-warmed back.

In its gloriously perverse programming, Hobart’s Dark Mofo has entrenched itself as a sanctuary for the weirdness of humanity.