Reviews

Book review: Mean Streak, Rick Morton
This exhaustive record of the illegal and self-serving behaviour of people in high places is as compelling as it is…

Exhibition review: Glen Downey, Isabella Hayes, Kate Pullen, Dan Go, Nyssa Braid, Off The Kerb Gallery and Studios
Independent Melbourne art gallery again proves its finger is on the pulse.Â

Film review: Welcome to Babel
A fascinating portrait of a man with a mission and the history that inspired it...

Book review: Orbital, Samatha Harvey
This year's Booker Prize-winner has garnered a lot of praise, but does it actually deserve it?

Theatre review: Sweat, Wharf 1 Theatre
A play about hardscrabble small-town Americans by a Pulitzer-winning playwright is grimly prescient.

Exhibition review: Carbon_Dating, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine CoastÂ
A group exhibition exploring Australian native grasses.

Performance review: The Wharf Revue: The End of the Wharf As We Know It, Seymour CentreÂ
After 25 years, The Wharf Revue – famous for lampooning Australian politicians – is presenting its final show.

Exhibition review: Honey Long and Prue Stent: Body Heat, Arc One Gallery
Visionary photography duo serves up a smorgasbord of colours, textures and ideas.

Theatre review: ASK, The Blue Room Theatre
Family dynamics across time and space.

Theatre review: August: Osage County, Belvoir Street Theatre
Belvoir Street tackles one of the century’s great American plays in its final offering for 2024.