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NO OTHER LANDRating MA, 95 minutesLimited cinemas from Thursday★★★½There is a moment late in this documentary about Palestinian resistance to Israel forcibly expelling villagers from farming land in the West...

Much of the detail he shares about them is already woven into the fabric of their legend. Their obsession with their weight. Their terror of surveillance and deportation. Their anguishes...

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeThe year was 1996 and my friend, Uberto Pasolini, an independent producer, was standing on a street in London’s Soho giving away tickets...

It was a flashback to the technically disastrous livestream of the Love is Blind reunion episode last year.But for Netflix, there were more benefits to screening the fight than just...

More than 60 years ago, the post-Marxist art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote that history’s inherent irony was that “it changes men into themselves by making them seem something else”. So...

POETRYHologrammaticalPhilip SalomPuncher & Wattman, $27The Empty GrandstandLloyd JonesUpswell, $24.99Two books of poetry. One from Philip Salom, a poet who in the past few years has concentrated on fiction, publishing four...

SCIENCEThe Secret Life of The UniverseNathalie A. CabrolSimon & Schuster, $34.99Nathalie Cabrol is an extraordinary woman. Not only is she director of the Carl Sagan Centre at the SETI (Search...

The Winds from Further WestAlexander McCall SmithPolygon, $39.99Compassionate comedy with a hint of melancholy under the uplift? That has been Alexander McCall Smith’s calling card for decades and the author...

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is possibly his most ambitious work.FICTIONVortexRodney HallPicador, $34.99At the age of 88, Rodney Hall’s new novel, Vortex – his 14th work of fiction – is perhaps his...

Interior Chinatown★★★★Disney+This 10-part series is an ambitious adaptation of Charles Yu’s 2020 novel of the same name, which took a scathing swipe at Asian representation and stereotypes in Western pop...