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Book review: Sad Girl Novel, Pip Finkemeyer
A fundamentally meta novel that plays with its own understated self-awareness.
Comedy reviews: Brodi Snook, Rose Callaghan, Jennifer Wong, Perth Comedy Festival
These three comedians are different in style, but were standouts in Perth and are touring now.
Book review: The Albatross, Nina Wan
An understated debut novel featuring tandem timelines, unresolved tension and well-controlled prose.
Book review: Fat Girl Dancing, Kris Kneen
An achingly honest memoir of otherness, queerness and embodied becoming.
Performance review: Hell is Other People, Blue Room Theatre, WA
Sartre’s infamous existential play is brilliantly reimagined, sans dialogue.
Dance review: Ballet to Broadway, His Majesty's Theatre, WA
West Australian Ballet shines in this breathtaking triple bill.
Theatre review: The Bleeding Tree, The Blue Room Theatre
This unforgettable murder ballad explores the tense relationship between violence, complicity, unity and resilience.
Book Review: Hard to Bear, Isabelle Oderberg
This thoughtful examination of pregnancy loss combines anecdotal wisdom, scientific evidence and investigative journalism.
Performance review: Show Day, Claremont Showground, WA
Family-friendly, feather-flying, ribbon-twirling fun.
Book review: Clytemnestra, Constanza Casati
An unforgettable feminist reimagining of a mythologically-maligned Spartan queen.