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The unexpected life lessons for adults from children’s books

Parents hope their kids will develop a love of reading through being read to. Could the rewards also flow the other way?

  • Amelia Lester

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Adjoa Andoh’s voice injects life and joy into a beloved book series

She can do it all: wild ululations and ejaculations, magnificently rolled Rs, the joyous African pronunciation of every syllable.

  • Amanda Hooton
Manifest is about a plane, Montego Air Flight 828, which goes missing somewhere between Jamaica and New York, but lands in the Big Apple five years later with zero explanation.

I’m here for Mick’s beetle brows and Jared’s chocolate-smartie eyes

Manifest, one of the most-watched shows on Netflix, is a perfect fit for the age of COVID.

  • Greg Callaghan
Wet Leg is led by two women in their late 20s, Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers.

Instant earworm: How a song by an unknown band from the Isle Of Wight went viral

Wet Leg’s self-titled debut album is such a wild mix of Millennial ennui and giddy exuberance that some cynics are wondering if the band will last.

  • Barry Divola
Perhaps more powerful than O’Farrell’s summoning of history is her exploration of another incomprehensible theme: grief and its ancient howl of agony connecting humanity through the ages.

Through Maggie O’Farrell’s Shakespeare novel Hamnet, I became a time-traveller

Curled up with the novel, a mighty imagining of the death of Shakespeare’s son, you feel the history of his town and the emotion of his people.

  • Stephanie Wood
Pop star and actor Selena Gomez (at right) creates sparks with Steve Martin and Martin Short via some witty, cross-generational banter.

This Steve Martin series is billed as a comedy-mystery, but it is so much more

Only Murders in the Building offers plenty of laughs, but there’s real heart to the story, too.

  • Barry Divola
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Diana Reid’s debut sharply questions the virtue of storytelling

Is Eve’s “theft” of another’s uni O-Week experience for the greater good, or an unethical betrayal of trust for personal career gain?

  • Madeleine Gray
Todd Haynes has form putting a unique spin on iconic music stories,

Why Todd Haynes’ doco is the perfect tribute to The Velvet Underground

Haynes takes incredible archival footage and creates an aural and visual collage, a cacophonous fever dream that complements the band’s music.

  • Barry Divola
Laura Marling’s seventh studio album came out at a time most of us were adjusting to a new form of existential malaise.

In lockdown, one album remained my emotional anchor

Laura Marling’s seventh album, Song for Our Daughter, came out in April 2020, at a time when most of us were adjusting to a new form of existential malaise.

  • Madeleine Gray

Britney v Spears: The singer’s voice is heard at last

This may not be great documentary, but it does give a new perspective on the superstar and her battle to reclaim her life.

  • Barry Divola

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