1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (241+ words) September 11, 2026 — 11:11am The world chronicled in Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy is both familiar and foreign. Set in Sydney’s inner west, the novel is peppered with local landmarks and place names: Newtown, Homebush, Parramatta Road, Central Station, Hyde Park, the QVB, the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (194+ words) September 9, 2026 — 2:31pm After the emotional cramp that was Amazon Prime Video’s The Runner, where Gal Gadot played a woman sprinting across London in a dull, drab attempt to find her kidnapped son, I was hopeful Last Seen would hit all the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (275+ words) September 3, 2026 — 4:11pm Sitcoms take time to find their comedic groove – even all-timers Seinfeld, Sex and the City and Parks and Recreation had shaky first seasons, with major characters and narrative devices abandoned as the writers homed in on the magic of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (818+ words) Brides of Christ is officially a middle-aged woman this month, the landmark miniseries having screened on the ABC over six scintillating and controversial weeks in 1991. Have mercy on me, O Lord, but I still think it might just be the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1041+ words) Emmy Rossum shadowed FBI agents for this hit TV show, which just finished its first season. One “horror” stayed with her. Between the white-hot rage of Beef, the simmering tensions between guests at The White Lotus and Michaela Coel’s eviscerating…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (63+ words) smh.com.au September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (642+ words) This gritty British crime drama gambles on a radical approach – and it’s a winner SMH.com.au Prodigies who burst out of the gate brimming with ambition and attitude are all well and good, but there’s something to be said…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (181+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am The ultimate argument of my PhD thesis was that the erotic can be an important site of power, one that has inspired revolutions, meaningfully critiqued corrupt authorities and even offered existential insight. If these are the historical origins of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (225+ words) August 28, 2026 — 11:00am Reading Rachel Cusk’s Life of M is a destabilising experience. The pages shadow you; the strange discomfort of their atmosphere lingers – as intended, surely, as most specifically intended. This is Cusk, after all, and her writing is no one’s…...