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Cinema
Is Megalopolis even worth watching? We asked Francis Ford Coppola
The epic cost the venerated director 40 years, a personal fortune and a critical backlash.
- by Karl Quinn
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TV’s coolest witch since Samantha casts a bewitching spell
With a viral hit song to her name, WandaVision’s Agatha Harkness spins off her own series – and it’s a zinger.
- by Michael Idato
A new look at the Queen gives us the myths, anecdotes and comedy
Craig Brown’s brilliant book on the Queen breathes life into the person behind the image.
- by Peter Craven
The last days of froyo are way overdue
There is nothing worth waiting in line for – especially not expensive, flavoured mud.
- by Mali Waugh
The suburb that gave us a raunchy grilled cheese scene - and a Dante
Sure there are some ghosts, but there’s a lot to learn about the inner west suburb.
- by Lauren Ironmonger
‘Aggressive, drunken, lascivious, sexist’ - Bob Hawke before he was PM
David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke’s first 50 years could only have been published after this famously thin-skinned subject’s death.
- by Frank Bongiorno
From a Nobel winner comes a feast of culture – highbrow and low
Olga Tokarczuk’s latest novel owes a debt to the great feminist horror writer Shirley Jackson.
- by Bram Presser
Elon Musk: Is he the special one, or just a bully and hypocrite?
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter, rename it as X, then destroy the company’s influence? Whatever the case, good riddance.
- by Gideon Haigh
Opinion
Real life
Is there any joy so great as escaping a parking ticket?
Oh, the exhilaration. Oh, the joy! It’s like being handed $136, the crisp notes counted into my hand by a beneficent deity.
- by Richard Glover
The most unbearable sound in the world? It’s silence
Forget peace and quiet. Give me peace and loud.
- by Robert Moran
I had a miscarriage, but I couldn’t find the words to tell my mother
My mother’s dominant and exclusive language is Mandarin, a language for which I possess the vocabulary of a 10-year-old native speaker.
- by Jessie Tu