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Exhibition August 31, 2024
Deaf in dance: feeling the beat
An exhibition at the State Library of Queensland about the Deaf Indigenous Dance Group has the power to radically reorientate public perceptions of communication.
Comedy August 31, 2024
The power of folk singer Grace Petrie
British folk singer, comedian and social activist Grace Petrie, soon to tour Australia, sings of love, life and politics and makes the marginal and the unfairly maligned feel seen.
Music August 31, 2024
Pinchgut Opera’s Eternal Light
Pinchgut Opera’s concert performance Eternal Light brings sacred music, such as Gregorio Allegri’s transcendent Miserere, to a wider audience.
Fiction August 31, 2024
Ducks Wind arising. Dark clouds brewing. En route one summer from San Francisco to Sydney the merchant ship SS El Faro Tancred 214J, caught in the billowing skirts of Cyclone Larry, spilled some of its cargo into the waters …
Television August 28, 2024
The unpredictable and compelling new series from Apple TV+, Sunny, morphs through sci-fi, thriller, noir mystery, family drama and comedy.
Music August 24, 2024
Fontaines D.C.’s viscerally exciting new album, Romance, can be morose, but it rarely descends into doomsaying or cynicism.
Visual Art August 24, 2024
Equal parts precise and powerful, the abstractions of Lesley Dumbrell are a study in the subjective nature of perception – and the cumulative rewards of looking closely at the world.
Dance August 24, 2024
Choreographer and dancer Luke Murphy
Acclaimed Irish choreographer and dancer Luke Murphy – whose dance theatre series Volcano has its Australian premiere at the Brisbane Festival – puts the sweating body at the centre of urgent questions.
Books August 24, 2024
Rebecca West used to call women “idiots” and men “lunatics”, a binary she defended as perfectly sound. The Greek root of “idiot” means private person, the writer explained – one who does not take part in public life – and women in Achaean …
Books August 24, 2024
Adam Forrest Kay
Escape from Shadow Physics
Since pretty much the beginning, quantum mechanics has been marooned in a quiet crisis. Its vague pronouncements find no purchase in our macro-level intuition. Instead, it sparks wild corollaries such as the multiverse or pronouncements like “the moon …
Books August 24, 2024
Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams and Felicity Meakins
Bina
The study of language by First Nations people has the power to save lives. Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New, a collaboration between Indigenous linguists Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams and linguistics professor Felicity Meakins, breathes …
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Books August 31, 2024
Khuê Pham (translated by Daryl Lindsey and Charles Hawley)
Brothers and Ghosts
After the death of a grandmother she didn’t know, the narrator of Brothers and Ghosts ponders the question: how much does it take to understand where you come from? This is the quiet, beating heart of the loosely autobiographical debut novel …
Books August 31, 2024
The first sentence in this powerful collection of short stories ends with the words “uneasy, restless” – a signature of what is to come. John Kinsella is a poet at the top of his game. His fiction reveals a further flowering of his imagination, …
Books August 31, 2024
Gratitude ripples through Jilya. The highly anticipated memoir from Nyamal psychologist Dr Tracy Westerman is a fascinating insight into a remarkable life. An international trailblazer in the fields of cultural competency, suicide prevention …