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Artist interview: The Gospel According to Paul

Jonathon Biggins on the ‘honour and privilege’ of portraying former Prime Minister Paul Keating.

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Film and screen

Best films of 2025 (plus ticket giveaway)

On a year that proves audiences are changing, LSJ chooses the best releases of 2025.

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Books

  • Book review: People With No Charisma

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    A bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.

  • Book review: Heart Lamp

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    Heart Lamp, the first Kannada-language winner of the International Booker Prize, is a powerful collection of stories by Banu Mushtaq, exploring women’s lives under patriarchy…

  • Book review: Yilkari: A desert suite

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    A lyrical journey through the Australian desert, Yilkari: A Desert Suite is a meditative, genre-defying reflection on Country, connection, and the echoes of memory scattered across…

  • Book review: Audition

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    Katie Kitamura’s new novel is a puzzling, and compelling story that continues to explore the themes of marriage she introduced in her previous work.