Spectrum
Sarah Ferguson on the darkness she’s seen in the US, trust, and 7.30
She’s one of Australia’s best interviewers and the Gold Walkley Award winner is about to take over the reins at the ABC’s 7.30.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Don’t mention retirement: Sam Neill on fame, hating golf and ScoMo’s ukulele skills
The beloved actor gave up a law degree after “catastrophically hopeless results”. Now he’s set to play a lawyer for the first time in his almost 50-year career.
- by Kylie Northover
Wine at 7.30am with Gerard Depardieu: could this young star’s story be more French?
At 25, Benjamin Voisin already has the equivalent of an Oscar to his name.
- by Jake Wilson
Opinion
Social media
I’m hooked on YouTube reaction videos. Why are they so addictive?
It’s never long before I’m dabbing my eyes, feeling slightly dirty to be spying on someone’s sorrow, but also feeling connected to people I’ve never known.
- by Anson Cameron
Reading this dazzling book is like ‘quaffing the finest champagne on earth’
Charmian Clift is the greatest essayist this country has produced, letting us discover the magic of words that tingle with feeling.
- by Peter Craven
Supernatural and bizarre: the new worlds of short stories
Two new collections of Australian stories offer plenty of rewards for readers.
- by Owen Richardson
‘No one paid Yoko Ono any attention either’: How Liliane Lijn took her art global
She met William Burroughs and Yves Klein and her work was compared to Jackson Pollock, but it wasn’t easy for the pioneering artist to earn recognition.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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Review
These women became unlikely outlaws. Their story couldn’t be more timely
The Janes tells the story of a group of women who set up an underground network to provide low-cost abortions in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
- by Kylie Northover
‘It breaks your heart’: How Geraldine Brooks turned her grief into a book of love
Her husband’s sudden death opened an abyss from which the Pulitzer Prize winner had to crawl to finish her latest novel.
- by Susan Wyndham
Fifty years on, no one comes close to pop saviour Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie’s alien creation blew our minds so completely in the glam-tastic 1970s that every rock star since has laboured feebly in his shadow.
- by Michael Dwyer
Opinion
Pop culture
Worried about all that mindless TV? Don’t be. It’s good for you
Whether it’s The Kardashians or Real Housewives of Melbourne, media designed for mass consumption isn’t bad. It’s meditative.
- by Genevieve Novak