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  • Sarah Blasko, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

    Music
    Sarah Blasko: ‘I’m still a recovering Christian. I had to remodel my brain to be here and enjoy life’

    Twenty years since her haunting debut, the Australian singer-songwriter’s latest album explores her religious upbringing and seismic shifts in her life
  • ‘Something magic happens when they get together’ … Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt.

    Culture
    ‘Noel and Julian were possibly aroused’: The Mighty Boosh turns 20 – in pictures

    While filming the surreal comedy, Dave Brown aka Bollo was on hand with a camera to snap awkward kisses, creepy venues … and people eating beans in makeup
  • Jennifer Salke in a red suit poses seated for a photograph

    Film
    ‘Bond’s audience will be patient’: Amazon MGM Studios’ boss on the hunt for a new 007

    Jennifer Salke, who is increasing investment in Britain, says some of the ideas floated in the post-Daniel Craig hiatus have been ‘interesting’
  • Troye Sivan Performs At The OVO Arena Wembley<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 27: Charli XCX joins Troye Sivan on stage during the Something to Give Each Other Tour at OVO Arena Wembley on June 27, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Redferns)

    Music
    Brat summer down under: Charli xcx to headline 2025 Laneway festival lineup

    British pop star will perform in Australia and New Zealand next February, along with Beabadoobee, Skegss, Clairo and Barry Can’t Swim
    • Adam Elliot in a black shirt in front of a wall of snail-themed bric-a-brac

      Film
      Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

    • Oasis in Milan during the Dig Out Your Soul tour in 2009.

      Music
      Oasis expand reunion tour to Australia – and spare fans from dynamic ticket pricing

    • Sally Field speaking on stage

      Film
      Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris

    • Sophie Willan in Alma’s Not Normal.

      Television & radio
      Alma’s Not Normal series two review – pretty much the perfect comedy

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  • Zoë Foster Blake, author, on a white background.

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    Zoë Foster Blake: ‘I’d fight Moo Deng. She would win’

  • From left: Disclaimer, Late Night with the Devil, Territory and Challengers

    Stream lover
    Challengers, Carrie and an Aussie spin on The Office: what’s new to streaming in Australia in October

    • Mean Streak by Rick Morton, The Burrow by Melanie Cheng, The Belburd by Nardi Simpson, Uses for Obsession by Ben Shewry, Juice by Tim Winton, The Deal by Alex Miller, Long Yarn Short by Vanessa Turnbull Roberts, Rapture by Emily Maguire, Dusk by Robbie Arnott

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      ‘Urgent’, ‘stunningly written’, ‘a feat of imagination’: the best Australian books out in October

    • Dan Muggleton.

      The funniest things on the internet
      Daniel Muggleton: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    • Dustin Hoffman wearing a white formal shirt and tinted glasses sigs on a cream leather couch, gesturing with his hands as if conducting

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      Wag the Dog: a pitch-black political comedy that’s never looked more relevant

Australia this month

  • Beau Woodbridge wears a dark brown jacket, white tee and navy pants and sits on an outdoor set of stairs with the blue sky behind him, looking upwards and away

    Stage
    Dear Evan Hansen: Australian production of Broadway hit puts mental health centre stage

    The team behind the new staging of the Tony award-winning show leaned into emotional authenticity and a design that evokes the overwhelming experience of social media
  • Jack Colwell

    Remembering Jack Colwell: an astonishing musical talent, and a generous and loyal friend

  • Jayson Gillham

    Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his concert allegedly over Gaza stance

  • Tim Winton: ‘I lived in the worst possible space for seven years. It knocks some paint off you, I can tell you’

  • ‘No precedent in the world’: Hobart concert hall opposes ‘noisy’ AFL stadium being built 170 metres from its stage

  • ‘That’s a career killer’: the brutally high stakes of bringing The Office to Australia

  • Amyl and the Sniffers take on the world: ‘If you don’t like us, then that’s on you’

  • Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread

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  • ‘I didn’t want to use them’: author Nardi Simpson on knowing when a story isn’t yours to tell

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Australian reviews

  • Cold Chisel performs at Petersons Winery, Armidale as part of their Big Five-O tour.

    Cold Chisel review: superhuman vocals from Jimmy Barnes anchor immortal songs in triumphant tour opener

  • Tism in a press photo shared to coincide with their reunion announcement in June 2022.

    TISM: Death to Art review – rock’s satirical provocateurs have lost their darker edge

    There are some good tunes on TISM’s seventh studio album, which is firmly punching up at Australia’s ‘cabal of bozos’ – but it’s missing the visceral thrill of their earlier work
  • ‘The Deal shows the reader both the furnace where artists are forged’ … Alex Miller, author of The Deal.

    The Deal by Alex Miller review – the failure and the fire of an artist’s life

    The two-time Miles Franklin winner’s latest book revisits familiar characters from his life and work, interrogating art, friendship and fatherhood
  • Sri (Shahana Goswami) and Yash (Akshay Ajit Singh) in Four Years Later.

    Four Years Later review – this love story is more exhausting than enthralling

  • Jesse Spencer and Radha Mitchell in a car, her leaning into him and his arm around her, as he looks into the distance and she looks towards the camera. A protest sign is seen on the seat beside her.

    Last Days of the Space Age review – muddled and misty-eyed period drama is unconvincing

  • Raeden Richardson and the cover of his book

    The Degenerates by Raeden Richardson review – ambitious debut pulses with life and language

  • Angelica Mesiti in the Tank

    Art
    Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When: a ravishing, immersive work that approaches the sublime

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Reviews

  • Rumaan Alam posing for a portrait

    Books
    Entitlement by Rumaan Alam review – meandering study of money’s corrupting influence

  • Sophie Willan in Alma’s Not Normal.

    Television & radio
    Alma’s Not Normal series two review – pretty much the perfect comedy

    Sophie Willan’s fabulous Boltonian is back – but her life has taken a heartbreaking turn. Even with added devastation, this is TV at its most beautiful, furious and hilarious
  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    Film
    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

    Based on a real murder in Chile in the 1950s, Maite Alberdi’s fictional story of obsession has glamour and style, but no intensity

  • Books
    The American No by Rupert Everett review – truthful, witty, wise and stoical

  • Television & radio
    Chimp Crazy review – like Tiger King for apes … but way more bleak

  • Film
    Take Cover review – Scott Adkins hitman thriller makes Fast & Furious look like Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Books
    World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain review – Doomsday in minute detail

  • Film
    Joker: Folie à Deux review – Lady Gaga electrifies in mediocre musical sequel

  • Books
    The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse review – satisfying family saga finale

  • Books
    Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller review – a marvel of narrative non fiction

  • Film
    A Different Man review – beauty is skin deep in a surreal dramedy

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News

  • Two women smile for the camera

    Cissy Houston, Grammy winner and mother of Whitney Houston, dies at 91

    Acclaimed gospel singer who performed with Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley dies in New Jersey hospice care
  • "House Of Gucci" New York Premiere<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Al Pacino attends the "House Of Gucci" New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 16, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

    Al Pacino reveals he almost died of Covid – and delivers his verdict on the afterlife

  • Close-up of Michel Blanc, actor, during the premiere of the movie " Musee haut, musee bas " in Lille, France on June 11th, 2008.<br>FRANCE - OCTOBER 16: Close-up of Michel Blanc, actor, on the occasion of the premiere of the movie " Musee haut, musee bas " in Lille, France on June 11th, 2008 - Michel Blanc, actor. (Photo by Franck CRUSIAUX/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

    Michel Blanc, star of Monsieur Hire, dies aged 72

  • ‘This guy was shady’: Zeppo Marx’s underworld links revealed in new book

  • Donald Glover cancels Childish Gambino tour dates because of ‘ailment’

  • ‘Stay away from gangsterism’: freed dancehall star Vybz Kartel on his regrets after 13 years in jail

  • Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris for president while criticising ‘dangerous’ Trump

  • Paul Simon ‘optimistic’ about returning to live shows despite hearing loss

  • Reese Witherspoon announces first novel co-written with Harlan Coben

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Interviews

  • Paul Simon on stage at teh Royal Albert Hall in November 2016.

    Music
    ‘I never said I was going to retire ...’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

  • Adam Pearson shot for OM

    Film
    ‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry

    Actor Adam Pearson feels disfigurement onscreen is often presented as a problem. He sees it very differently. He talks about karaoke in Croydon, rivalry with his twin, Oscar ambitions – and why his mum refuses to believe he’s famous
  • “People think I must be really messed up. but I swear I’m a happy, well-adjusted human”, says Ella Purnell.

    Television & radio
    ‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen

    From Yellowjackets to Fallout and now murderous new drama Sweetpea, the British actor is killing it. But behind all the grisly roles, she’s really sweet ... honest
  • A portrait of Joe Locke, with short dark curly hair and wearing a dark red jacket, against a bright blue background

    ‘I want to get hate-tweeted by Donald Trump!’
    Heartstopper’s Joe Locke on trolls, typecasting and turning to the dark side

  • Barbara Kingsolver photographed at her home in Virginia by Ian Curcio for the Observer New Review, August 2024.

    ‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’
    Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance and the real Appalachia

  • Observer New Review Q&amp;A ONLY Sept 2024 Leave Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, Mantua 10 September 2023. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

    Books
    Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk: ‘We live with violence and misogyny like some sort of constant illness’

  • Emma D'Arcy.

    Television & radio
    Emma D’Arcy: ‘I’m desperate for a sword on House of the Dragon next season’

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Pictures & video

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    The human towers of Tarragona – in pictures

  • Marina Pribaz’s entry, inspired by a fairytale party – and completely functional as a teapot too.

    Sydney Teapot Show 2024: fantastic spouts and whimsical handles – in pictures

    With more than three decades of history, this year’s exhibition at Gallery Lowe & Lee features over 140 wildly imaginative takes on the tea set – including a duck, parrot and pineapple
  • Scraps of genius … The Drift by Maeve Brennan, 2017

    A wild ride! Jarman award nominees on tour – in pictures

    Featuring night workers and news reports from another dimension, nominees for the prestigious prize are taking their diverse, boundary-pushing films on tour. We meet the artists up for the prize
  • Strictly Observer New Review feature ONLY No other use<br>Radiohead Studio, Oxon., UK, 2010 This is in our studio in Oxford, in the programming room, Tom trying out vocal ideas around the beginning of making Hail To The Thief. Tom always had an incredible voice. Him and his brother Andy used to do this amazing party piece when they were young, doing My Funny Valentine, and they were big Elvis Costello fans. They could sing all the harmonies and stuff. Andy was akso in a band with my brother when they were at school called The Illiterate Hands – very inspired by Talking Heads [laughs]. In fact, David Byrne came to this studio once. He was writing about music, and he took the train to Didcot, and came and hung out for afternoon, which was kind of amazing.

    Radiohead as you’ve never seen them before – in pictures

  • Bees form a cluster on the ground, with more flying through the air.

    Honeycomb hunters and grief in Gaza: Siena photo awards – in pictures

  • The palettes of (l-r) Paula Modersohn-Becker, Egon Schiele and Edward Hopper.

    Board masters: artists’ palettes as works of art – in pictures

  • ‘She wasn’t playing the role’ … Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in 2000.

    ‘I think Tom Cruise was annoyed with Nicole Kidman that night’: Jonathan Becker on photographing the world’s biggest stars

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