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  • Laura Marling relaxing on a sofa with the top of her daughter's head just visible beside her.

    Music
    ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

    After six Top 10 hits, the singer-songwriter might ‘wind down’ her career at 34 – but not before a stunning new album that celebrates the psychedelic high of parenting
  • Stars from All We Imagine as Light, Megalopolis, and The Shrouds

    Melbourne international film festival 2024
    10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

    Plus Cate Blanchett as a hapless German chancellor, India’s first film to compete at Cannes in three decades, and a restored Wake in Fright – with a new score
  • Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton, Victor Alli as John Stirling and Masali Baduza as Michaela Stirling in Bridgerton

    Television & radio
    ‘Sorry, we don’t want lesbians’: Bridgerton’s problem with racism, homophobia and body-shaming

    From petitions against LGBT romances to actors being deluged with racist comments, the Regency drama has a huge toxicity problem in its fandom – to the detriment of some of its stars’ mental health
  • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

    Film
    Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw
    • Jordan Prosser and the Big Time book cover

      Books
      Big Time by Jordan Prosser review – a lush, drug-fuelled adventure in a future Australia

    • Macbeth (An Undoing) Bojana Novakovic c Jeff Busby[1]

      Stage
      Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M takes over Shakespeare’s play … but what for?

    • FILE - Actor George Clooney speaks to the media following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Feb. 23, 2009. Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney is adding his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race. Clooney says in a New York Times opinion piece Wednesday that he loves Biden, but the party would lose the presidential race as well as any control in Congress with him as the nominee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

      US elections
      Will Biden’s loss of celebrity support make a real difference?

    • Suzi with Johan Svenson in The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.

      Television & radio
      The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning review – feelgood TV that expands your heart

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  • When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation’: Bec Petraitis.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Bec Petraitis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • July Book Review

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    ‘Radical’, ‘a headrush’, ‘insanely clever’: the best Australian books out in July

    • Love Lies Bleeding, Lady in the Lake, Brats and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

      Stream lover
      Love Lies Bleeding, Brats and Lady in the Lake: what’s new to streaming in Australia in July

    • ‘Don’t spend any time crying over me. Go, party!’: Dave Bayley

      10 Chaotic Questions
      Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley: ‘I’m a short shorts guy’

    • James Stewart in the 1950 film Harvey

      Stream team
      James Stewart is sublimely strange and sweet in Harvey as a drunkard with an invisible rabbit friend

Australia this month

  • After my husband’s death, looking down was all I could do. Then I saw a dragonfly

    Ailsa Piper

  • Stage
    Ready, willing and disabled: the Australian actors campaigning for more roles – and better training

  • Missy Higgins soundtracked my generation of queer teens. Seeing her live is euphoric

    Joseph Earp

  • Bookshops will never die. That’s why I bought one on Gumtree five years ago – and we’re still here

    Matt Davis

  • Walk with ...
    Steph Tisdell: ‘This year’s for us. This year is about saying we’re still here’

  • Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

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Australian reviews

  • Zahra Newman, as Mina in Kip Williams’ Dracula, who plays a total of 23 characters for Sydney Theatre Company's production

    Dracula review
    A clever and playful victory lap for Kip Williams’ gothic cine-theatre trilogy

  • Louise Wolhuter and the book cover

    Books
    Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter review – a masterful mystery that keeps you guessing

    This writer’s tantalising second novel is packed with marvellous characters, whose unfurling stories examine generational secrets
  • Asher Keddie outside a bush shack in Fake

    TV
    Fake review – Asher Keddie thrills in visceral drama about a romance scammer

    The web of deception woven by David Wenham’s shady Joe Burt sets pulses racing in this slow-building TV series inspired by Stephanie Wood’s memoir
  • A call to arms: Black Swan State Theatre’s Prima Facie.

    Stage
    Prima Facie review – Suzie Miller’s runaway success is tense and timely in new version

  • Three Tahitians, an 1899 painting by Paul Gauguin

    Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

  • An installation review of Mona's 2024 exhibition Namedropping

    Namedropping
    Is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?

  • Dirty Three Sydney Opera House credit Daniel Boud 006b

    Music
    Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything review – aggressive and transcendent

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Reviews

  • Long Island Compromise

    Books
    Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner review – trials of the wealthy

  • Black man sitting at table looks down as Black woman looks at him

    Film
    Divorce in the Black review – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date

    A couple edge toward a split in the writer-director’s shoddy Amazon Prime offering, carelessly made and dull to watch
  • Miss Severance? This will scratch that itch … Rashida Jones and her robot in Sunny.

    Television & radio
    Sunny review – this robot-fuelled comedy thriller sounds crap … and is actually excellent

    Rashida Jones’s show about a grief-stricken woman and a mechanoid is confident, quirky TV that doesn’t put a foot wrong – even if its synopsis is dire

  • Television & radio
    The Boyfriend review – the gay Japanese dating show that will have you punching the air with joy

  • Film
    Twisters review – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • Film
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • Film
    A Quiet Place: Day One review – stylish and satisfying prequel

  • Television
    Sausage Party: Foodtopia review – you may need to look away from all the fruit and veg pornography

  • Film
    Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • Television & radio
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode four recap – dragons rain hell in a truly terrific hour of TV

  • Games
    Zenless Zone Zero review – stylish, enchanting and seductive

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News

  • 1980, THE SHINING<br>SHELLEY DUVALL Character(s): Wendy Torrance Film 'THE SHINING' (1980) Directed By STANLEY KUBRICK 23 May 1980 SBB4889 Allstar/WARNER BROS. **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Shelley Duvall
    Star of The Shining and Annie Hall dies aged 75

    The versatile actor, who was Robert Altman’s muse and also appeared in McCabe & Mrs Miller, Nashville, Popeye and 3 Women, has died
  • Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carsten Rehder/EPA/Shutterstock (8180184a) Thomas Hoepker Photographer and President of the Agency 'Magnum Photos' Sits Next to One of His Most Famous Pictures Showing Boxer Muhammad Ali in Hamburg Germany Wednesday 10 January 2007 the Museum Fuer Kunst Und Gewerbe (museum For Arts and Crafts) Presents 230 Examples of Hoepker's Work Spanning a Period of Five Decades (1955-2005) Until 18 March 2007 Hoepker is Among the Most Internationally Celebrated German Photographers and Refers to Himself As a 'Picture Maker' Rather Than an Artist Germany Hamburg Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007

    Photography
    Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

  • Musician Josh Klinghoffer pictured at an NBA game in Los Angeles in 2014

    Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist sued for wrongful death in alleged fatal collision

  • George Clooney implores Biden to step aside in opinion article

  • Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops

  • ‘Not like us’: Argentina take shot at Drake after rapper loses $300,000 bet against them

  • Jurors selected as Alec Baldwin’s Rust involuntary manslaughter trial begins

  • Shrek 5: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz returning for 2026 sequel

  • Queens of the Stone Age cancels European tour for Josh Homme’s surgery

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Interviews

  • Stewart Copeland pictured in Milan, May 2024.

    Music
    Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    Film
    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

    The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
  • MJ Lenderman.

    Music
    Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman

    Known for turns with hit US indie acts Wednesday and Waxahatchee, the singer-guitarist explains how his songs – full of sad sacks and losers – get to the heart of masculinity
  • The XXX factor … Mia Goth and Ti West.

    Film
    ‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

  • Untitled #80 (1980).

    Art and design
    Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

  • Tilda Swinton, left, and Julio Torres pose for a portrait in New York to promote their film "Problemista" on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

    Film
    ‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

    Books
    ‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

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    Micro what? New professional education options to give your CV an edge

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    Restoring families, repairing lives: could you be the one to help a child in need?

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    Fast, gritty and heartfelt: a dysfunctional father-daughter duo’s quest to repay $26,000 in 10 days … or else

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Pictures & video

  • Shelley Duvall in 1983

    Shelley Duvall – a life in pictures

  • New York 1946

    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives – in pictures

    He would take candid snaps on the New York subway while pretending to adjust his camera. Now, a new monograph aims to bring the photographer’s work to a wider audience
  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

    From Quechua rappers to Peruvian ballet dancers, these images showcase the talents of emerging and established photographers from the region
  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: drag artists with Down’s syndrome – in pictures

  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang – in pictures

  • Basic instinct … Kissing in a Bar, New York City, 1977.

    Art
    Close encounters: Arles festival of photography – in pictures

  • Fans watching the Last Dinner Party at Other stage.

    Photo essay
    Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024

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  • ‘Somebody once asked me if they had ever had sex’ … Lucy Lawless as Xena and Renee O’Connor as Gabrielle.

    ‘I was attacked by a bloody rabbit’: how we made Xena: Warrior Princess

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    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

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