Helen Garner
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Equality for some
Labour is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
