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  • A scene from the House of the Dragon season two finale.

    Television & radio
    ‘It feels torturous’: how much longer can House of the Dragon fail to give viewers what they want?

    The increasingly frustrating Game of Thrones prequel had one key selling point: mass dragon battles. Without them, it’s getting harder to justify watching
  • Fanning and Dempsey walking down an stairwell

    Culture
    Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey on their new duo: ‘The party hasn’t started until the sax solo’

    Fanning Dempsey National Park sounds like neither Powderfinger nor Something for Kate. Instead it’s an ode to the 70s and 80s
  • Four men stand with their arms up leaning against a brick wall as a police officer looks on

    Australia news
    ‘We were in shock, we were numb’: the police raid that changed Melbourne’s gay scene forever

    Tasty nightclub was controversially raided by Victoria police 30 years ago. How are those who were there that night marking such a dark anniversary? They’re throwing a big camp party
  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    Books
    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

    From fairy porn to romantasy via the Omegaverse, publishing is sexier than ever. The reason? A big shift in gen Z and millennial attitudes to respectability and shame ...
    • The cast of Rebel Moon

      Film
      Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?

    • Sam Neill at home in Central Otago, New Zealand.

      Film
      The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

    • Hannah Gadsby.

      Stage
      Hannah Gadsby: ‘The Edinburgh fringe might make your dreams come true – or it will give you scurvy’

    • Ray Martin sitting in coffin

      Television & radio
      ‘My family didn’t want to come’: Ray Martin on attending his own funeral – and facing up to death

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  • ‘It makes the hours of scrolling Temu hauls worth it’: Eliza Klatt (left), pictured here with bandmates Kurt and Ruby.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Eliza & The Delusionals: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Books of the month composite Australia.

    Bookmark this
    New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

    • The Rings of Power, Mulholland Drive, Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough, The Deliverance, and Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

      Stream lover
      The Rings of Power, David Attenborough and classic Fincher: what’s new to streaming in Australia in August

    • Simon Armitage

      10 Chaotic Questions
      Simon Armitage: ‘You’re not going to get me to say anything bad about any bird’

    • The film’s style is heightened – or rather magnified, as if seen through its protagonist’s big, plastic-rimmed frames.

      Stream team
      Welcome to the Dollhouse: Todd Solondz’s surprisingly tender tale of schoolyard misfits

Australia this month

  • Alexis Wright.

    Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

    The 700+ page novel has been described as a ‘mind-altering experience’ and a massive antidote’ to short attention spans. It’s not an easy read – but it’s not meant to be
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto

    ‘I make reality out of fantasy’: Hiroshi Sugimoto on fooling the world with his camera

  • Simon Armitage

    Simon Armitage: ‘You’re not going to get me to say anything bad about any bird’

  • A poem by Paul Kelly: ‘My lyrics are often stolen from songs, poems, novels, conversations’

  • Stream lover
    The Rings of Power, David Attenborough and classic Fincher: what’s new to streaming in Australia in August

  • Booker prize 2024
    Charlotte Wood becomes first Australian to make longlist in eight years

  • Janet Andrewartha was a magical actor to watch – and a beautiful, classy friend

    Elly Varrenti

  • The Chills’ Martin Phillipps leaves a legacy of melancholy brilliance

    Andrew Stafford

  • Christine Anu: ‘I don’t think I was ready for any new material’

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Australian reviews

  • Cast of English on stage

    English review – this Pulitzer-winning play is smart, subtle and deceptively feelgood

  • Book Review Alice Robinson

    If You Go by Alice Robinson review – what would you do with a second chance at life?

    This ambitious novel, which follows a mother who wakes up in the future without her children, wrestles with complex existential questions
  • Composite image of author Jessie Tu and the cover of her book The Honeyeater

    The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu review – this biting tale of backstabbing uber-egos will stay with you

    Tu’s second novel, charting a young translator’s messy relationship with a two-faced academic couple, brilliantly dissects power and whiteness
  • Seven people dancing on stage

    In the Heights review – Broadway behemoth’s scrappiest show is full of heart

  • ‘Just a beanbag short of a bliss-out’: André 3000 at the Art of Gallery of New South Wales.

    Volume festival: André 3000 brings experimental flute jams to an event that’s wonderful when weird

  • Australian author Finegan Kruckemeyer and the cover of The End and Everything Before It

    The End and Everything Before It by Finegan Kruckemeyer review – a dreamy alternative to the world we live in

  • Ormiston Pound River at West Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory

    The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – ghosts of the past

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Reviews

  • my student id 1992 in moscow

    Books
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

  • Zappa Family Portrait<br>LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 1968: Rock and roll guitariist Frank Zappa poses for a portrait in Laurel Canyon with his wife Gail Zappa and daughter Moon Unit Zappa in February 1968 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Books
    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

    This memoir about being fathered by the 70s rock oddball and ‘pagan absurdist’ is an extraordinary tale of survival
  • Joan Chen and Izaac Wang sitting facing each other across a table at a diner.

    Film
    Dìdi review – bittersweet Asian American coming-of-age drama

    Wang’s award-winning debut is a tender, semi-autobiographical portrait of a 13-year-old skateboarder and his devoted immigrant mum in 00s California

  • Film
    Harold and the Purple Crayon review – sketchy live-action adaptation

  • Television & radio
    The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon review – finally, the zombie show has a spinoff you can actually care about

  • Books
    All in the Family by Fred Trump review – when dollars are thicker than blood

  • Music
    Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints review – hard-won life lessons

  • Television & radio
    Fantasmas review – this wildly creative comedy is a beacon of hope for TV’s future

  • Books
    Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers review – northern soul and second chances

  • Film
    The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

  • Television & radio
    Batman: Caped Crusader review – this noirish reboot feels utterly refreshing

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News

  • Happier times … Lynch at the Cannes film festival in 2002.

    David Lynch says he is not retiring after revealing he is too ill to direct films in person

    The Twin Peaks creator says he has emphysema caused by smoking and cannot leave the house because of the risk of Covid
  • ‘Imaginative empathy’ … Pope Francis.

    Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction

  • Huw Edwards wears sunglasses as he arrives at Westminster magistrates court in London

    Plaque honouring Huw Edwards removed from Cardiff Castle

  • Police investigate alleged death threat sent to Amanda Abbington

  • Tchaikovsky was not tragic but had a ‘Monty Python’ sense of humour, says biographer

  • Music
    Aerosmith retire from touring over frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury

  • Justin Timberlake appears by video and pleads not guilty in drunk-driving case

  • Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter

  • Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen

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  • Jeff Goldblum photographed in London June, 2024. Photographer: David Vintiner Photographer's assistants: Adam Orzechowski and Kristina Salgvik Stylist: Andrew T. Vottero Sittings Editor: Helen Seamons Grooming: Gareth Bromell at A Frame agency using Sisley Paris and 111skin Set design and build by wyliewood.co.uk All clothes prada.com

    Culture
    ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

  • Richard Evans sitting in a leather armchair.

    Books
    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

    The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, January 2024<br>PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 19: Joan Chen of 'Didi' is photographed for Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2024 at the LA Times Studio at Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire in Park City, Utah. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST READ: Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA. (Photo by Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA by Getty Images)

    Film
    The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63

    Thirty-seven years after her Hollywood breakthrough in The Last Emperor, Chen is back in new drama Dìdi. She discusses her roots in China, objectification and the protective power of creativity
  • Malcolm McDowell portrait.

    Film
    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

  • ‘I saw it as theatrical’ … Armand Schaubroeck.

    Music
    ‘We never stole from kids, just insured places’: Armand Schaubroeck, the ex-con muse of Andy Warhol

  • A woman poses for the camera wearing a yellow blouse and purple trousers

    Film
    ‘She lived so much life so quickly’: the lost tapes of Elizabeth Taylor

  • Atsuko Okatsuka press shot

    Stage
    Atsuko Okatsuka: ‘Whatever made you feel like a freak as a kid – that thing is your superpower’

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  • Fly fishing at Granite Lake in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in Montana.

    Watch: Montana’s wild culinary spirit

  • A young woman hiking through Glacier National Park in Montana on a beautiful summer day.

    Watch: Wellness retreats in Montana

  • Nightlife at Ocean Drive with neon-coloured art deco hotels, South Beach, Miami, USA

    Watch: Excellent eats in Florida

  • Aerial View of Florida Everglades

    Watch: Awesome Everglades adventures

Pictures & video

  • Mermaid in Italy … Alison and Thee, St Lawrence River

    ‘I never know what I’ll find’: under the influence of Italy – in pictures

  • Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica

    ‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’: the final images from inside Chornobyl

    A new book brings together Pierpaolo Mittica’s stunning photographs from the devastated, yet still populated, exclusion zone around the destroyed nuclear power plant
  • The Last Stand by Fiona Francois Charcoal drawing

    From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

    Hadley’s Art prize is an annual acquisitive prize for Australian landscape art that is believed to be the richest in the world. Selected from 35 finalists, Zoe Grey has won for The Shape of Rock
  • Laura Alvarez, Venezuela, 1976

    Totally bananas! Gian Paolo Barbieri’s wild fashion shoots – in pictures

  • ‘Under the sea' by Ella Lee Fowler age 6, winner 5–8 years ”I painted my best friend Avelyn because she is so nice. I think Avelyn would like to go under the water in the Kuromi helmet, to swim with the piranha and the queenfish.”

    Young Archibald prize 2024: Australia’s award for child artists – in pictures

  • Surface tension … The Champion Single Sculls by Thomas Eakins, from 1871.

    It’s the art Olympics! The 20 greatest ever sporting artworks

  • Lee Friedlander – Topless Bridesmaid, 1967

    Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures

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    Death, disease and cash prizes: the most disastrous reality TV shows ever

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