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The restraint and emotional insight of Father Mother Sister Brother shows how Jim Jarmusch has brought spiritual depth to the New York grit of his films.

I’m a sort of joke, in human form. Once, I might have been exhibited in a freak show – The Bearded Lady, The Living Skeleton, The Hiccupping Man – but this is 2026. I’m on show only to my family, my friends, my colleagues, my renown stretching as far as my medical team.

At the 2026 TarraWarra International, artists argue the ‘end of the world’ is a persistent reality for First Nations peoples.

In Opera Australia’s production of Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s luminous music transcends a confusing concept.

Booker Prize-winner David Szalay, in Australia for the Melbourne and Sydney writers’ festivals, has written the dissociations of his peripatetic life into a series of novels.

The adaptation of Enid Blyton’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree is a charmingly muddled film that stifles the menace in the books.