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Rufus Wainwright performs at Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday.

Fires haunt the night of Rufus Wainwright’s masterful show

His vibrato-rich voice channelled centuries of musical influences, from folk to opera, while across the Pacific, his city burned.

  • Will Cox, Andy Hazel, Andrew Fuhrmann and Cameron Woodhead

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P. J. Harvey later set her poems to music.

PJ Harvey is more keenly aware than ever of the toll art can take

The musician spent eight years working on the world of her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying.

  • Michael Dwyer
Niall Williams is concerned with the life of individuals and the village itself.

A baby is found and a village is changed in this moving Irish novel

Niall Williams returns to the village of Faha in this vividly evoked story about community.

  • Brian McFarlane
A self-portrait taken in 1979, the year before she died aged 30 of a rare liver disease.

Carol Jerrems died at 30. This exhibition of her work is a revelation

She died young, and that is the least important aspect of this Australian photographer’s art.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn
Historian rofessor Clare Wright.

We should all know this story of the documents that changed Australia

Historian and author Clare Wright has spent a decade investigating the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem Land in 1963.

  • Ann McGrath
Tinashe performs at Forum Melbourne on January 7, 2025.

In an electric gig, this performer proved that she isn’t bothered about norms

For the dancing alone, it’s worth the price of admission – with some of the best moves in the game, Tinashe is hypnotic.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Kate Jones and Tony Way
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Author Bernard Schlink

What drives Germany’s neo-Nazis? This masterful novel seeks answers

Bernhard Schlink took us inside the mind of an SS guard in The Reader. His latest work explores a modern country still shadowed by the past.

  • Tom Ryan
Josh Brolin with his step-mother, Barbra Streisand, and father James in 2019.

Barbra Streisand’s blunt question was this actor’s moment of truth

Josh Brolin, stepson of the legendary singer, and son of actor James Brolin, has written a memoir about his troubled life.

  • Nathan Smith
John Dwyer, 50, of Osees: “I love speed. I love cocaine. But there comes a point where you’re at an age where it’s just not okay to do them any more.”

He’s released nearly 30 albums. But this punk lifer won’t stop

The hyper-prolific John Dwyer of cult LA noisemakers Osees is a man who can’t slow down.

  • Barry Divola
There are plenty of great books to choose from this month.

Secrets, confessions and an autobiography that was supposed to be posthumous: Twelve new books for the new year

From a memoir by Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, to the new novel by a Miles Franklin winner, there’s plenty in store for book lovers this month.

  • Jason Steger

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