See & Do
A tiny budget and a whole lot of interruptions? If anything, they made this documentary better
Dale Frank was once considered one of art’s “bad boys”. A new documentary offers an intimate look behind the scenes.
- Sandra Hall
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Family secrets laid bare, ‘inconvenient women’ and a croc attack: 13 new books to delve into
From a book that its own author may not have approved of to a beautiful and confronting photography collection, there’s a bumper crop of releases this month.
- Jason Steger
A century on, this Great American Novel still captivates readers
F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is said to contain some of the most perfect sentences ever written about America.
- Jane Sullivan
Homework, bullies and pets: Jeff Kinney on why kids love his books
The American author’s Diary of A Wimpy Kid series is the fourth bestselling book series of all time - and not just in kids’ books.
- John Bailey
This hotly anticipated novel explores the dark embers of the psyche
In the third instalment of her fictional triptych, Katie Kitmaura wields her words with scalpel-like precision to explore the demands women are “expert at negotiating”.
- Jessie Tu
Tom Hanks’ daughter reveals a childhood marred by abuse at the hands of her mother
E.A. Hanks’s memoir re-creates a road trip she once took with her late mother to seek answers to what was an “incomprehensible” childhood.
- Nathan Smith
Does the US suffer from an abundance of good intentions?
A central focus for US progressives should be raising wellbeing by creating more for everyone, argue Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their new book.
- Andrew Leigh
These works by Sidney Nolan have never been displayed. Now they’re heading to Melbourne
In 1962, the artist visited Auschwitz. The paintings he created afterwards have been brought together in a new exhibition.
- Will Cox
The playwright who humanised hitmen decades before Pulp Fiction
Harold Pinter’s bleakly funny The Dumb Waiter shows us the banality in brutality. It features in a new Ensemble double header with his equally comic play The Lover.
- Chris Hook
Festivals have ‘privileged literary works’ over popular, commercial fiction: Veronica Sullivan
As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.
- Kylie Northover
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