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Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeThey’re a weird mob, the presidents and prime ministers making the big decisions. Cate Blanchett, who plays a fictitious but quite recognisable German...

Over the next fortnight, Farrier brings Tickled back to Melbourne and Sydney. The screenings are for his robust online community, after realising many of the newer converts hadn’t seen the...

MOANA 2 ★★★(PG) 100 minutesHere’s the first thing you need to know: Moana 2 was intended as a TV series for Disney+ before the allure of valuable IP convinced Disney’s...

FICTIONDuskRobbie ArnottPicador, $34.99In Robbie Arnott’s latest novel, an escaped puma is wreaking carnage on grazing country, killing sheep and shepherds in unsettling numbers. The titular puma stalks the highlands of...

When Richard Flanagan turned down the £50,000 (around $97,000) prize money for the Baillie Gifford Prize this month, he joined a distinguished line-up of literary award refusals.Flanagan, who won the...

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeWhen he was 16, Wayne Coyne got a job at a Long John Silver’s fast-food joint in his hometown of Oklahoma City. About...

SkysongC.A. WrightPantera Press, $32.99Fairytale adapted into a full-length fantasy novel best describes C.A. Wright’s Skysong. This book takes inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale – one of the brighter...

Like Didion, she’s repelled by the obviousness of early 1970s feminist art – “The whole women’s thing that is going on right now is so stark and obscene most of...

Nugget is Dead: A Christmas StoryStan★★½Search for “Christmas” on Stan (which, like this masthead, is owned by Nine) and you’ll get about 150 titles, including such staples as Love, Actually,...

Despite the happy exterior, however, the relationship began buckling under Sonny’s self-destructive impulses and need for total control. After discovering his many infidelities, prescription pill problem and misappropriation of money...