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The greatest trick ever will change your mind about magic

The climax is no less moving than a great line of poetry or a soaring phrase of music.

  • David Free

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“Sharing music and seeing people’s reactions to it made me realise that it gives me purpose”:Mallrat re-emerges with new album Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right.

Last year,music felt ‘impossible’. Now she’s touring with Kylie

After personal grief,the 26-year-old star steps back into the light with her adventurous second album.

  • Robert Moran
Welcome to The White Lotus … season three of The White Lotus is set in Thailand.

Louder,bigger,crazier:What to expect from The White Lotus season 3

The third season of HBO’s hit blurs the line between satire and serious drama.

  • Michael Idato
A publisher from Simon&Schuster has banned the book blurb.

Down with ‘unputdownable’:Is there a case for boycotting book blurbs?

A publisher from Simon& Schuster has banned the blurb. Personally,I’m torn.

  • David Astle
Christina Ricci as Misty and Elijah Wood as Walter in Yellowjackets.

Cannibalism,hallucinogens and forest spirits:Yellowjackets is back

The bonkers tale of a group of high school students who (mostly) survive a 1996 plane crash returns with even more mysteries.

  • Kylie Northover
The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.

Why is everyone suddenly in their professional photoshoot era?

The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.

  • Mali Waugh
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Barry Keoghan says he experienced “an amazing invasion of privacy.”

Barry Keoghan on Saltburn,Sabrina and why he needed a dog

The actor experienced an “amazing invasion of privacy” after he was propelled from manageable fame to headline-grabbing notoriety.

  • Stephanie Bunbury

From a blob to birds:Eight new books to read this week

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.

  • Cameron Woodhead andFiona Capp
Robert Lukins is terrific at conveying both male and female experience.

All is not as it seems in this risky new Australian novel

Similar in narrative style to Kafka’s The Trial,Robert Lukins’ new novel,centred on the crimes of a wealthy American family,withholds specific details.

  • Jack Cameron Stanton
Peter Beinart,author of Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza.

This book is so powerful,it’s hard to resist the urge to cry

Jewish scholar Peter Beinart imagines a world where Jews who support Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and Jews who are utterly opposed make accommodations with each other.

  • Jenna Price