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André Dao’s debut novel Anam (Penguin Random House) has just won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, worth A$80,000. This follows its shortlisting for this year’s Miles Franklin Award.

The first Venezuelan to enter DC Comics talks about working with her husband in "The Duel," her experience on the "Superman Legacy" set, and bringing her culture to Hollywood.

This timely revival is a big-hearted, joyful piece of work

Her frothy sheer dress made her look like a Greek goddess arising from the sea.

“This show tonight is about freedom. So, let go, have fun, make some friends, sing, dance, take your tops off if you must,” Smith declared.

O2 Arena, LondonSmith trades unrequited love for lustful liberation in a maximalist show with an Elton-meets-Lizzo energy – and the occasional sorrowful pause

Have you ever dreamed of fleeing your current life and spending weeks or months or even a year living on an island in the Mediterranean? This is what Susan Johnson longed for and did, taking her mother with her to the Greek island of Kythera. Reading Johnson’s new memoir Aphrodite’s…

A trip to Kythera for the Australian author and her mother results in this unsparing and intimate look at their intense and often unhappy dynamic

Letter: We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley