Reviews

The Best Australian Essays 2017
Many of Australia’s best essayists have offered fresh perspectives on issues that have come to lose their significance through repetition…

The Last Escape by John Killick
The extraordinary story of an exceptionally talented man who spent nearly half his life in jail.

Travelling Tales
An exquisite musical journey that takes you from sun down amongst natural beauty to first light after a sleepless city…

The Twits
Seldom does an arts company stick so closely to its visions and purpose, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is the anomaly.

In Cahoots: Artists collaborate across Country
In Cahoots is about six Aboriginal art centres and selected artists working together in unexpected ways to challenge the nature…

Five Elements
Riley Lee and the Enigma Quartet present a concert of ten pieces based on five elements – a most unusual…

Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Five women are lost in the Giralang Ranges but only four of them make it back to base.

Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu
A velvet glove approach leads to well-pondered questions about colonial authority in the Pacific, and the right to delegate what…

Coronation of Poppea
Pinchgut's updating is thought provoking and vocally superb.

Can I Get An Amen?!
Emerging young comedic talent impresses despite an uneven offering.