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KILL YOUR DARLINGS
Dreams Worth Trying For: a conversation with Jenny Zhang
How to become everything: a review of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Books roundup: a review of You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
Books roundup: a review of In This Desert There Were Seeds
BANDCAMP DAILY
Banoffee grows into herself on avant-pop triumph “Look At Us Now Dad”
THE SATURDAY PAPER
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
GRIFFITH REVIEW
In between the in-between for Griffith Review 61: Who We Are
THE GUARDIAN
An interview with Melanie Cheng, author of Australia Day and Room for a Stranger
The future of Bollywood cinema: an interview with Shah Rukh Khan and Zoya Akhtar
Call of the wild: the podcasts taking us back to nature
HAZLITT
‘Doubt can be a formidable ally’: an interview with Josephine Rowe
‘We show so much of ourselves to our friends’: an Interview with Laura McPhee-Browne
FOREGROUND
The city as billboard: Fed Square, Apple and brand urbanism
ABC LIFE
Knowing when to give up is a secret superpower. Here’s how to hone it
SBS
Everything you need to know before you binge Wellington Paranormal
How The Family Law normalised cultural diversity on Australian television
THE LIFTED BROW
You Don’t Change At All: a review of Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart
MEANJIN QUARTERLY
Stranger Things 2
WRITERS BLOC
On Winter by Ali Smith
RMIT CREATIVE
Longform reviews of solo debut shows by multidisciplinary artists, Cara Jordan Miller and Rikki Paul-Bunder (print only).
CONCRETE PLAYGROUND
Ten classes you can take over summer to learn something new
Ten Australian TV shows you can stream now
JUNKEE
‘Amy’ review: remembering the genius, sadness and humanity of Amy Winehouse
‘Hidden Figures’ is revolutionary, even if it doesn’t always feel like it
OVERLAND JOURNAL
It’s a man’s world: unpacking cinema’s ‘best-of’ culture
What I talk about when I talk about erasure
Fresh off the Boat and straight to Broad City
OTHER
Name A More Iconic Duo: the benefits of cross collaboration