Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

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The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate ...

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Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female ...

Vernon Ah Kee’s 100-square-metre bookstore mural celebrates Queensland authors, poets and artists in charcoal ...

Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding ...

An Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film ...

The late playwright Jack Hibberd’s ‘Dimboola’ and ‘A Stretch of the Imagination’ offered Australian life through a Beckett ...

Sarah Manguso’s novel about a woman staying in a terrible relationship seems resigned to male dominance, while Vigdis ...