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May’s streaming highlights span Watergate-era journalism, an Aussie kids’ heist caper and new works from Timothée Chalamet and Richard Gadd.
Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead has now been adapted for the stage.
All The President’s Men is a masterpiece of political cinema. Watching it 50 years on, it feels less historically distant than it does disturbingly...
Left-wing radicalism dominated the 1970s – until the 1979 Iranian Revolution became a catalyst for ‘a new and different energy’.
The ‘vile’ side of humanity William Golding saw in World War II haunts his famous novel. He later came to dislike the book, dismissing it as...
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turns 50 this month. It is widely regarded as one of the most important American films. It is also one of the most...
This month, our experts are loving shows and films from Australia, Canada, the United States and Korea.
A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy that reminds us why cinema...
In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was rebuked by Churchill.
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book, 1929, takes us inside the Wall Street crash that led to the Depression. It asks: does history repeat itself? And what can...
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom has been described by film critics as ‘essential to have seen but impossible to watch’.
With Shadow Ticket, Pynchon reminds us the line between chaos and order, corruption and truth, remains as thin, porous and perilous as ever.
Vineland is set in Reagan’s America: an era of conservative backlash and retreat from progressive ideals. Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation...
The winners of this year’s awards include celebrated novelist Michelle de Kretser, journalist Rick Morton on Robodebt and poet David Brooks.
The Sovereign Individual celebrates the instincts of the impossibly wealthy to accumulate, hoard and insulate themselves from the messier demands of...
A new biography shows how Gertrude Stein has been celebrated, sidelined and criticised over the decades – as a revolutionary genius, charlatan and...
Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.
A new book, Conspiracy Nation, explains how conspiratorial thinking and misinformation spread – both online and in the real world – in...
The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans. Who were they,...
This fresh take by the Sydney Theatre Company combines existential dread with dark humour – and resonates for the current age.
Fitzgerald’s uncannily prescient masterpiece of wealth and ambition is an enduring classic. But though it’s sold over 250 million copies, it...
The Glass Menagerie catapulted Tennessee Williams to fame. A new revival by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre revitalises it for modern audiences.
Fletcher Knebel’s novel has much to say about the fragility of our democratic institutions and the dangers of unchecked authority.
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