Reviews
Book Review: My Name Is Monster by Katie Hale
Hale’s debut novel is an examination of power and changing mother-daughter relationships.
Book Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Hill’s must-read book combines detailed research, candid testimonies and an incisive analysis of how abuse perpetrators and victims think.
Book Review: From Here On, Monsters by Elizabeth Bryer
Bryer’s debut novel is a challenging and artful work that plays with parallels.
Review: Britten’s Peter Grimes in Concert, Sydney Symphony Orchestra (NSW)
SSO’s concert performance of Britten’s opera brought out the best of the best – so where was the audience?
Book Review: The Professor and the Parson by Adam Sisman
A detailed biography of a masterful conman and the historian who pursued him.
Review: Whiteley, Opera Australia (NSW)
Opera Australia has premiered its first new work in nearly a decade, and it’s quintessentially Australian, both in subject and…
Book Review: Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
This is one of the best murder thrillers to hit the bookshops in a long time.
Book Review: Slugger by Martin Holmen
An all-too-realistic thriller with a protagonist who, while not likeable, is attractive and compelling.
TV Review: Younger Season 6 is as crisp and salty as a bag of chips
Stan is drip-feeding episodes of this addictive lit-world rom-com, and that's Mel Campbell's only quibble.
Review: Doppelgangster's Cold War, Prague Fringe Festival
It’s easy to let the trajectory of the aural-optical assault wash over you, but blink and you’ll miss it all.