Books & Poetry

Diary of a Bookseller: Stories to delight, enthral and terrify

From Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated Handmaid’s Tale sequel and Salman Rushdie’s modern-day riff on Don Quixote, to a gorgeous multi-generational history, a tightly plotted murder mystery and two top new YA novels, Jo Case looks at what’s new on the bookshelves.

Arts & Culture

Watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones

Based around a millennial having a quarter-life crisis, new ABC series Content is filmed vertically and set entirely on an iPhone screen. It’s also built to watch on your phone – and that can have some uncanny effects.

Arts & Culture

Tarnanthi artist invites an exchange of 'blood money'

Ryan Presley’s large paintings reimagining Australia’s bank notes with portraits of Indigenous leaders will be exhibited in Adelaide alongside a ‘Blood Money Currency Exchange Terminal’ as part of next month’s Tarnanthi festival line-up.

CityMag

Cheap beer and much mirth: Adelaide’s best happy hours

There’s a lot to be said for the charm and fervent pride you can find in a good front bar. You’ll find mateship, a fair go, a good laugh, no dickheads and – above all else – reasonably priced beer.

Your Weekend

Windmill revives the wonderfully wacky Girl Asleep

ON STAGE: First it was a play, then a film, and now Girl Asleep is back on the Adelaide stage – transporting audiences to a surreal world with a rite-of-passage story that’s ‘part fairytale, part lipstick-smeared vigilante escapade’.