SINNERS: Eternity, The Double-Edged Sword

Zen Lam

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Little Revelations and the Faith we find in Fiction: Emily Maguire and Josephine Rowe at MWF 2025

Claire Le Blond

Content warning: References to religious trauma, sex, and literary violenceRead Article

THIN RED LINES: The Melbourne Writers Festival Poetry Event

Saria Ratnam

It’s been a week since I attended Thin Red Lines, a quarterly poetry event curated by Georgia “George” Kartas and ThabanRead Article

Sevenfold Theatre Company: THE BOYS and the Perpetual Suffering of The Women

Owini Wijayasekara

Content Warnings: In-depth discussion of domestic and gender based violence, mentions of homocide, themes of toxic mascuRead Article

SUE ME: Audrey Hobert Becomes Her Own Pop Star

Owini Wijayasekara

When Audrey Hobert hits the pop scene, I am at the ready. Not to ‘claim my spot as an OG fan,’ but by the time her debutRead Article

Ocean Vuong’s EMPEROR OF GLADNESS Redefines Family, the Loser and Change

Zeinab Jishi

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SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE: A Starving Child, a Fallen Woman, an Envelope of Cash.

Victoria Lincoln

Can Bill Furlong stand by and let his neighbours suffer beside him? This is the core tension faced by the protagonist ofRead Article

ALI MCGREGOR’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night: Divine Decadence Darling!

Sabine Pentecost

For the past couple of years, the women in my family have flocked to the preview of Ali McGregor’s Variety Night to sampRead Article

HADESTOWN: A Political Romance to be Reckoned With

Kirsten Abustan

Step into a world that’s all too familiar with the Australian production of Anaïs Mitchell’s award-winning musical HadesRead Article

“There is No Turning Back When Everything is Destroyed”: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay on HYSTERIA

Aditi Acharla

When one watches a movie titled Hysteria you’d assume catastrophe from the very instance it starts. Instead, in Mehmet ARead Article

WHAT WAS THAT? The LORDE has Risen?!

Owini Wijayasekara

It is at this exact intersection I meet Lorde, in her newest single ‘What Was That,’ released April 24, 2025, off her upRead Article

“I did”: brighter days ahead, the mystical reawakening of ARIANA GRANDE's eternal sunshine

Owini Wijayasekara

Ariana Grande hit an artistic stride in eternal sunshine, breathing life to heartbreak in her private and public identitRead Article

MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ at MFW: Sacred Haunts, Body Horror and Neoliberal Canines

Zeinab Jishi

Sometimes when I walk around Melbourne, I always feel ghosts around me. It is a distinctly strange experience to walk onRead Article

WARFARE: What it’s Like to be the First Noah Centineo Film About Conflict in the Middle East

Lachie Carroll

Warfare, the latest pseudo-blockbuster from A24, speaks a whole lot of nothing despite its ear-piercing explosions and gRead Article

THE CORRESPONDENT: Wrongful Imprisonment, Mise-en-scène and the Persistence of Australian Journalism

Felicity Bayne

CW: Graphic depictions of death, abuse of power, violence, profanityRead Article

THE BRIMBANK COMEDY GALA: A Celebration of the New Wave of Comedy

Taylah Xuereb

The Brimbank Comedy Gala brought life and laughter to the Bowery Theatre. As a feature of the Melbourne International CoRead Article

YELLOWJACKETS Season Three and What Not to Do with Melanie Lynskey

Lachie Carroll

LANEWAY 2025: Is it Brat to be a brat?

Sabine Pentecost (writer)

Laneway 2025 was a mixed bag. Once in a lifetime performances were witnessed, countless people were shoved around by druRead Article

25 Albums to Look Out for in ‘25

Dom Lepore & Felix O'Kane

2024 was quite a year for music, with the inescapable brat summer and many pop and indie acts reaching superstardom. 202Read Article

Dive Inside Ichiko Aoba’s World – Luminescent Creatures

Aditi Acharla

Ichiko Aoba’s latest album, Luminescent Creatures, implores listeners to experience its world–from its beginning to its Read Article

AMY HETHERINGTON: A Mum’s Night Out (And One Lone 19 Year Old)

Zeinab Jishi (writer)