Spectrum
‘Why would you make us do it again?’: The secret to Toni Collette’s acting success
The Australian actor jumped at the chance to work with South Korean master Bong Joon-ho on new film Mickey 17.
- Stephanie Bunbury
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The live album is dead. But their charms last forever
YouTube killed them. But the live album was once a carefully curated work of art.
- David Free
- Opinion
- Friendship
The supposed ‘compliment’ I never want to hear again
So many of our common expressions mean the opposite of what they appear to say.
- Richard Glover
- Opinion
- WordPlay
be an anti-capitalist: here’s the case for going full lower-case
Gen Z cops the flak for making lower-case language a trend. But they’re not the first.
- David Astle
She feared she’d never write another novel. But criticism won’t silence this literary superstar
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making”.
- Richard Jinman
- Review
- Review
Lady Gaga imitating Lady Gaga is still better than most things in this sad world
After five-odd years of Joker-induced nonsense, Lady Gaga – the pop icon – is back with a new album.
- Robert Moran
Enough of this polished facade, bring back real Oscars fashion
The Oscars red carpet is officially broken, and one specific star’s to blame.
- Damien Woolnough
It’s not just musicians who starve with Spotify. Turns out we all do
Liz Pelly’s new book Mood Machine uncovers the ways the streaming giant has undermined our relationship with music.
- Jenna Price
Heartbreak, vampires and the ‘nudge effect’: This week’s new books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over eight new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Being a person is so weird: Curtis Sittenfeld on life, luck and middle age
The author’s new collection of short stories features sliding doors aplenty – the what-ifs, the should-haves and the could-haves.
- Melanie Kembrey
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