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Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart) return for the fourth season of Hacks.

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

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Debut author Sophie Quick

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
Spotify was meant to be the key to unlocking the world’s music, to unleashing creativity. It’s anything but.

How Spotify’s techno-capitalism is stamping on the face of humanity

In Mood Machine, American music journalist Liz Pelly outlines the story of the music streaming giant’s conquest of streaming.

  • Michael Dwyer
When Penrose publishes it is not out of any professional obligation, only because he has something worth saying.

The genius physicist whose work was inspired by Escher

Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist, is still working at age 93.

  • Pat Sheil
Colum McCann did extensive due diligence for the writing of Apeirogon.

A poetic thriller about humanity and connection in the internet age

Colum McCann’s new novel is, as its title suggests, a twisty literary thriller that breaks the rules.

  • Peter Craven
Warfare, co-directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, tells the story of a real-life battle in Iraq, drawn from the memories of those who were there.

Ever wondered what war is like? This film goes where you don’t want to

Alex Garland’s Warfare puts us in the room as a group of Navy SEALs come under fire in Iraq. It’s not easy to watch.

  • Karl Quinn
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NZ comedian Guy Montgomery.

Guy Montgomery is everywhere, but he thinks he’s ‘pretty generic’

The New Zealander has written for others, appeared in films, done fundraisers, but he describes these ventures as “dream-adjacent.”

  • John Bailey
The Booth Variety Spectacular & Formal Apology Hour! is on at Arts Centre Melbourne until April 20.

Ghosts, lies, and conspiracy theories: This festival has it all

From a show where musicals meet PowerPoint, to a trip back in time, here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Elizabeth Flux, Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Nell Geraets, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
The Sex Pistols have reunited for the first time in two decades.

The Sex Pistols return to Melbourne in a tour Johnny Rotten describes as ‘karaoke’

The band is (somewhat) back together for the first time in two decades – but what is a Sex Pistols gig like without John Lyndon, aka Johnny Rotten?

  • Will Cox, Jessica Nicholas and Andrew Fuhrmann
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These artists first picked up a brush in prison. It changed their lives

Connecting with their culture through art while in prison has proven revolutionary for hundreds of Indigenous people.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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