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- Opinion
- Home tech
Tech’s ‘improvements’ are making my life worse (and wetter)
The future is here, and it’s full of damp laundry and unsolicited AI.
- Richard Glover
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Your step count is boring me to tears (and probably everyone else too)
Did you know the idea of walking 10,000 steps a day isn’t rooted in modern science at all?
- Mali Waugh
- Opinion
- WordPlay
Words keep coming and they don’t stop coming
Dictionary sites are overflowing with limbo words hoping to join the official lexicon.
- David Astle
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud’s new album is a Tarantino-esque pastiche of ’80s metal, ‘90s Britpop and ’00s emo. It works … sometimes.
- Tom W. Clarke
Thirty-something and newly single? Haim know exactly how you feel
On new album I Quit, the sister-trio embrace single life and sound positively dizzy about it.
- Barry Divola
‘He was like my little brother’: Billy Zane on Heath Ledger, Leonardo DiCaprio, and 40 years in Hollywood
The famous actor from all your favourite movies returns to Australia for the Supanova pop culture expo.
- Robert Moran
Ten new fiction and non-fiction books to add to your reading list
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Billionaire Barry Diller - married to Diane von Fürstenberg - comes out in new memoir
The former CEO of Paramount Pictures reveals how he hid his sexuality, while also sharing his business acumen and revealing juicy Hollywood anecdotes.
- Nathan Smith
Rock-star philosopher celebrates the joy of pessimism
Despite what he says is the upending of the neoliberal capitalist order, Slavoj Žižek is determined to avoid disappointment.
- JP O'Malley
A haunting tribute to the bonds between humans and animals
Poet Robbie Coburn’s verse novel explores the potential power of the relationship between horses and humans to transform a troubled life.
- Candida Baker
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