Spectrum
Rude, chaotic, needy: Why middle-class me loves playing Beetlejuice
This obnoxious loudmouth lets us laugh at death and decency. What better way to celebrate life?
- Eddie Perfect
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- Political leadership
Call me cancelled, but our po-faced progressives need a good laugh
The war against wrong-think is as dangerous for the canceller as it is for the cancelled.
- Anson Cameron
Millennials, mums and an Australian mermaid: eight new books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases
- Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
An Oscar changes everything for most actors. Not Cillian Murphy
The Oppenheimer star went straight back to the low-key life he loves. In his latest film, he delivers his best performance yet.
- Stephanie Bunbury
From lusty krakens to Satan burgers, literary tastes are getting weird
Missing vowels might be the least of your troubles as writers embrace a new level of bonkers.
- Jane Sullivan
Is this the most Australian crime thriller of all time?
Jane Caro’s Lyrebird is a well-crafted crime novel – and as Aussie as it gets.
- Sue Turnbull
Hacks returns with a new setting but the same razor-sharp satire
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return with an all-new (but still toxic) dynamic as they take on late-night TV.
- Kylie Northover
This sharp satire features a conwoman you can empathise with
The anti-heroine in Sophie Quick’s debut novel scams people just enough to get by – because she’s a single mother with no support.
- Jessie Tu
‘Streaming as surveillance’: How Spotify is poisoning music in the digital age
In Mood Machine, American music journalist Liz Pelly outlines the story of the music streaming giant’s conquest of streaming.
- Michael Dwyer
The genius physicist whose work was inspired by Escher
Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist, is still working at age 93.
- Pat Sheil
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