Culture

Amy ran into Jeremy during her lunchbreak and he proposed dinner before he left for his next posting. They were both diplomats, representing different countries in the same capital, and dinners were a professional obligation. She accepted. She only expected dinner.

Illuminate Adelaide this year turns from techno-pessimism to possibilities of joy and playfulness.

Over the past three decades, Liza Lim’s restless polyvocal practice has seen her become one of Australia’s most distinguished composers.

Christopher Nolan’s darkly pessimistic version of The Odyssey reveals his talent for grand image-making – but some scenes are the most shockingly inept of his career.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Disco Elysium, stands with the very best of spy fiction.

Two decades ago, Stephanie Lake was Melbourne’s favourite dancer – now she is one of its most ambitious choreographers.

New Religion at Ngununggula gallery brings together William Blake, artists from the Cologne School and contemporary Australian artists in an ambitious exhibition.

The zeitgeist is all doom, but the best pop music so far this year is surprisingly inventive and infectious.

In the oven of Nevada’s Vegas strip, / Miss Atomic Pageant hopefuls sipped / Duck and Cover cocktails before they stripped in the Sands / while locals and tourists on rooftops, hills, / and behind cigar-clouded casino glass, / viewed the advertised atomic blast.

Nick Antosca’s lumpen and bloody adaptation of Cape Fear reflects the exhausted hyperrealism of our time.