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Dale Frank in a scene from Nobody’s Sweetie.

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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There’s a bumper selection of new books to read this May.

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
Leonardo diCaprio playing Jay Gatsby.

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
Kinney and his Wimpy Kid protagonist.

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
Katie Kitamura’s novel demonstrates that stories themselves are equal parts light and shadow.

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 E A Hanks.

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
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Vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19.

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
A work by Sidney Nolan inspired by the Ravensbrück women’s camp.

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
Nicole Da Silva, Anthony Taufa and Gareth Davies are starring in a season of two Pinter plays at Ensemble Theatre.

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
Melbourne Writers Festival director Veronica Sullivan.

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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