Reviews
Book review: Half Deaf, Completely Mad, Tony Cohen and John Olson
The story of destructive genius and its brilliant accompanying soundtrack.
Book review: Sad Girl Novel, Pip Finkemeyer
A fundamentally meta novel that plays with its own understated self-awareness.
Exhibition review: Milton Moon: Crafting modernism, AGSA
A retrospective display of the work of one of Australia's most eminent ceramicists.
Musical review: Mamma Mia!, Lyric Theatre
The feel-good extravaganza featuring ABBA hits returns for a tour across the country.
Theatre review: Hymns for the Witching Hour, Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin
A personal story that explores religion, identity and family legacy through narrative, dance and music.
Book review: Call me Marlowe, Catherine de Saint Phalle
Among many other things, this novel canvasses love, reconciliation and friendship.
Book review: House of Longing, Tara Calaby
An historical fiction that navigates the world of women in Victorian asylums.
Exhibition review: Terra Nova, Sturt Gallery
Seventy years of Australian studio pottery celebrated in an exhibition that puts technical excellence and a passion for material first.
Book review: Blackwater, Jacqueline Ross
A slow build Gothic debut has ties to historical Tasmania.
Theatre review: Worstward Ho, Theatre Works
A rarely presented Beckett play is typically experimental and interior in nature.