Culture

Across fiction and nonfiction, Palestinian–Australian author Amal Awad refuses to limit her work with reductive expectations.

A branch smashes on a nearby mudstone slab and the leaves do not rain down politely like this is a wholesome and earthy wedding, they spark as if they are flaming green from an explosion. But the red-haired man is chatting about all the books that are best-selling and wonderful, especially the one about the explorer who climbs the smallest mountains in the world that are still called mountains, and how funny it is!

A 2007 retrospective of Tom Kreisler’s art has had a lifelong impact on Mitch Cairns’ work.

Pickpocket and Days on MIFF Play highlight the very different talents of two major Asian directors.

A mischievous work of conceptual art aims to critique the multimillion-dollar art market in NFTs – and the joke might ultimately be on the buyers.

Because he writes for young people, Finegan Kruckemeyer has mostly worked under the radar – but he’s one of Australia’s most internationally produced playwrights.

Although it has sparkling moments, Lorde’s new album Solar Power is marred by a misjudged emotional loftiness.

We were there most days, light chat lapsing into comfortable silence. A dog would pass, or a squirrel run up a man’s leg, and that would set us off again. Then the sun would go and one or the other of us would say he had better be off. Always soon, never tomorrow.

Opera and film director Constantine Costi discusses how Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ has influenced his approach to staging.

In his show Diaspora, Psyche John Young’s works cut through reductionist identity politics.