Film review: Wicked: For Good
The famously weaker second half of Wicked lacks the punch and musical numbers of the first part, but Jon Chu, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande work…
By Alys Martin - 3 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: Wicked: For Good
The famously weaker second half of Wicked lacks the punch and musical numbers of the first part, but Jon Chu, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande work…
By Alys Martin - 3 min read
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Book review: People With No Charisma
By Reuben Fourt-Wells - 3 min readA bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.
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Book review: Heart Lamp
By Caroline Wagner - 3 min readHeart 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…
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Book review: Yilkari: A desert suite
By Vincent Barry - 3 min readA 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…
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Book review: Audition
By Amy Dale - 2 min readKatie Kitamura’s new novel is a puzzling, and compelling story that continues to explore the themes of marriage she introduced in her previous work.
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Book review: Twist
By Vincent Barry - 3 min readCollum McCann’s new novel is an compelling thriller set in the world of “underwater cable repairs” that remains with its reader for a while.
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“Careless People”, the explosive Meta memoir and “Murder The Truth” spotlight free speech in a litigious landscape
By Cat Woods - 6 min readFormer Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has penned a frank account of her seven years at the social media behemoth despite facing threats and legal action…
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Book review: Wild Dark Shore
By Pippa Lyons - 2 min readThe bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves brings a novel about a family living alone on a remote island during a climate-change-induced…