Film review: The Last Showgirl and Bird (plus ticket giveaway)
Pamela Anderson earns her renaissance in an uneven film that plays to her strengths, while Andrea Arnold and Barry Keoghan enter the real of fantasy…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min read
Artist interview: The Gospel According to Paul
Jonathon Biggins on the ‘honour and privilege’ of portraying former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
By LSJ Team - 4 min read
Film review: The Last Showgirl and Bird (plus ticket giveaway)
Pamela Anderson earns her renaissance in an uneven film that plays to her strengths, while Andrea Arnold and Barry Keoghan enter the real of fantasy…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min read
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Book review: The Message
By Vincent Barry - 4 min readIn three essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his personal relationship with identity, culture, and apartheid
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Book review: 2024 Booker Prize winner Orbital
By Amy Dale - 3 min readA single day account which tells the earthly story of being alive.
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Book review – The First Friend
By Vincent Barry - 3 min readSet in the Soviet Union during the peak of Stalinism, The First Friend is an absurdist comedy on the legacy of despots and blood-thirsty dictators.
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Book review – The Waiting
By Pippa Lyons - 2 min readDetectives Harry Bosch and Reneé Ballard join forces again in a new Michael Connelly page turner that delivers exactly what it promises.
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Book review: Nothing More To Tell
By Noa Granek - 2 min readAn immersive and gripping young adult thriller
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Book review: Safe Haven
By Jen Webb - 6 min readShankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.
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Book review: The Vulnerables
By Amy Dale - 2 min readSigrid Nunez signs a COVID novel that has the same kind of humour, observation and literary references her fans recognise.