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• Reading List: March

  Fiction: Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire.Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace.Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. Sylvain Neuvel: A... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Do i Get Callous Or Do i Stay Tender

  

  goat girl | the crack. dry cleaning | dog proposal. julien baker | relative fiction. the notwist | exit strategy to myself. faithless feat. suli breaks | poetry... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• I Care a Lot

  

  , by J Blakeson, came out in Australian cinemas a few weeks ago. Last week, in the midst of a profound government crisis, the Australian Prime Minister... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February.

  Non-Fiction:Molly Wizenberg: The Fixed Stars.Beth Macy: Dopesick.Stacy Schiff: The Witches. Salem, 1692.Jeff Gunn: The Road to Jonestown. Jim Jones and Peoples... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Courtney Summers' The Project

  

  Last year, I was reading Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls, a collection of essays about the American, and specifically pop-cultural, obsession with fetishizing young... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• No, You Be Careful.

  

  We rarely see films about women with singular dedications to one thing only, so intense and focused that every aspect of their life is tuned to just one goal. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress

  

  Non-Fiction: Talia Lavin: Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.Aileen Moreton-Robinson: Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Legacy Russell: Glitch Feminism. Aileen Moreton-Robinson: Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism in Australia.Tyson... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse, Season Five

  

  He’d pretended kindness so well she would doubt herself, make herself wonder if she was the one being unreasonable, irrational, all the things he implied she... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Day One

  "Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• American Dream(s)

  

  There is so much heartbreak in Miss Juneteenth and in Minari, but they are both portrays of the United States, of what it means to chase a dream with limited... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• An Attempted Coup.

  The day after two Democratic wins in the Georgia run-off election with gives the Democratic Party control of both houses, this. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Ellie & Abbie (and Oh No, Why Did It Have to Have Teeth in the Title)

  

  Monica Zanetti’s Ellie Abbie came out shortly before Christmas, but is not really a Christmas movie – but it’s difficult to think about this film and not... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading Notes: Hari Kunzru's Red Pill

  

  I never expect novels by non-German or Austrian writers to take me back to my eight years of German literature education, in which we dis- and reassembled... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• His House

  

  This is your home now. In 2004, a collection of European film-makers created an anthology film called Visions of Europe. I can’t recall the details of many of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Ww84

  I didn’t want to write about things this year that didn’t provide me with joy, or intellectual stimulation, or at least made me glad I had spent time on them.... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show: I May Destroy YouMichaela Coel creates a fictionalised account of the fall-out of a rape, of trying to make sense and find footing again without... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Andrea Long Chu: Females.Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism.Fiction: Robin Talley: The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre.Gilly MacMillan:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Albums: Cable Ties: Far Enough.Sweeping Promises: Hunger For a Way Out.Shopping: All Or Nothing.Faithless: All Blessed.Caribou: Suddenly.Kaki King: Modern... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  The Half of ItFreemanBirds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley QuinnThe AssistantShirleyTerminator: Dark Fate (2019)Troop Zero... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO