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Elizabeth Gilbert. Image: Deborah Lopez.
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All the Way to the River review: Elizabeth Gilbert gets personal again

All the Way to the River chronicles Gilbert's decades-long friendship and romance with Rayya Elias.

No Dancing in the Lift, by Mandy Sayer. Image: Transit Lounge.
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No Dancing in the Lift, Mandy Sayer review: a vivid memoir

Sayer's No Dancing in the Lift paints an intimate portrait of an unconventional childhood.

Rhett Davis, a profile photo of a man with short grey hair. Author of Arborescence.
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Arborescence review: Rhett Davis' novel takes 'tree change' to a new level

Arborescence is speculative fiction at its best: an end-of-world story that offers green leaves of hope.

Detail from Would That I Were A Fortress cover art, by June Jones. Image: Arkie Barton & June Jones.
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Would That It Were a Fortress review: June Jones EP is a chrysalis

June Jones’ music is intensely personal, interrogating gender identity, mental health, disability and what healing might look like.

A man with holding a phone in his ear in the dark in Dial M for Murder.
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Dial M for Murder review: dial NQ for not quite

A new adaptation of Frederick Nott's 1952 play Dial M for Murder at Melbourne's Theatre Works feels like a missed…

Martha Iserman, The Alchemist. Flora, Fauna and Folklore. Image supplied.
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Flora, Fauna & Folklore review: Martha Iserman at The Memo Healesville

Nature, science, imagination and understanding flow together in Martha Iserman's impressive rural exhibition.

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Threadbare review: a queer family drama at Melbourne's St Martins Youth Arts Centre

In threadbare, Tomas Parrish-Chynoweth explores the challenges and joys of families chosen and given.

a young man with Down syndrome wears a yellow t shirt and a crown and sits on a blue chair in front of a screen showing many other actors who have played Hamlet.
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Theatre review: Hamlet, RISING, Union Theatre, University of Melbourne

It's 'Hamlet', but not 'that' one. No, this version has dancing, rap and a beautifully conceived and executed message behind…

Gallery installation view of fleshy coloured paintings with soft pink curtains. Tender at Ngununggula
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Exhibition review: Tender, Ngununggula

An all-women exhibition explores both tenderness and strength, across a dynamic viewing experience.

Larsen C: six dancers in metallic grey/black costumes pictured in synchronous movement bending sideways against a black backdrop.
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Dance review: Larsen C, State Theatre Centre of WA

A stunning collusion of minimalist movement and brilliant lighting design, this dance work heightens our awareness of the elemental forces…

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