This NGV show celebrates the greatest love stories – our pets

This NGV show celebrates the greatest love stories – our pets

Whether you’re a dog or a cat person,you’ll know it’s a relationship like no other,as the artworks in NGV’s exhibition from across the centuries and cultures reveal.

  • byKerrie O'Brien

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This author’s surprising take on a romcom delivers just what you want

This author’s surprising take on a romcom delivers just what you want

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  • byJessie Tu
My trick for remembering names is a bit dodgy. Just ask ‘pooork Sarah’

My trick for remembering names is a bit dodgy. Just ask ‘pooork Sarah’

An aide-memoire is all very well – until you make the wrong connection.

  • byAnson Cameron
Killer queens and troubled psychos:why we love an anti-hero

Killer queens and troubled psychos:why we love an anti-hero

A new event at ACMI celebrates the characters we really shouldn’t.

  • byJordan Prosser
‘The next Fleabag’:How Something Terrible became just the opposite

‘The next Fleabag’:How Something Terrible became just the opposite

Australian-born playwright Marcelo Dos Santos knew he was on a winner when the woman behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer got on board.

  • byRichard Jinman
An Australian literary classic gets a mixtape makeover

An Australian literary classic gets a mixtape makeover

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From brunch to living in a war zone:how war upended a writer’s life

From brunch to living in a war zone:how war upended a writer’s life

In his rage-fuelled account of the first year of the Ukraine war,writer Oleksandr Mykhed struggles to find the word to describe his country’s new reality

  • byKurt Johnson
Race,heritage and bigotry inform Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel

Race,heritage and bigotry inform Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel

The British author’s new novel explores the passage of time,race,Brexit and sexuality.

  • byOwen Richardson
Polyamory,Stoicism and AI:New books for every taste

Polyamory,Stoicism and AI:New books for every taste

Intergenerational legacies,marriage and monogamy are among the themes explored in these works.

  • byCameron Woodhead andSteven Carroll
Wacky tales – Spanish master filmmaker delivers 50 years of writing

Wacky tales – Spanish master filmmaker delivers 50 years of writing

Pedro Almodóvar’s first book spans autobiographical essays,short stories and diary entries from his personal archive,including a story he wrote in 1967 about a porn star writing her memoir.

  • byEddie Hampson
The Booker Prize is,thankfully,no longer ‘pale,male and stale’

The Booker Prize is,thankfully,no longer ‘pale,male and stale’

In this year’s shortlist,five of the six books are by women,three authors have been nominated before and there’s one debut novel.

  • byJane Sullivan