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Jane Caro found that confronting the illusion of safety helped her stop fearing danger.

Is this the most Australian crime thriller of all time?

Jane Caro’s Lyrebird is a well-crafted crime novel – and as Aussie as it gets.

  • Sue Turnbull

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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
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
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Katy Perry is off to space.

Space has a PR problem. It’s time to make it great again

Using space as a stunt to recover from a failed album is just another nail in the coffin of the great black void’s reputation.

  • Patrick Lenton
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 crossword clue is poetry to pore over and savour.

Feeling puzzled? This is how crosswords soothe us in hectic times

I can monster a cryptic before my beer goes flat, but what’s the hurry?

  • David Astle
Melbourne five-piece Floodlights go deep on their new album Underneath.

Cathartic rock and eshay rap at its finest: The best new Aussie music to hear

A monthly spotlight on our favourite new albums, singles and videos from local musicians.

  • Nick Buckley, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Robert Moran and Jules LeFevre

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