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A pop album about IVF and middle-aged dating? It could only come from Robyn
The most influential pop star of the 21st century became a single mother through IVF – and then made an album about it.
- Nick Buckley
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Will AI make me obsolete? You be the judge
There are ghost-writers in the machine, and it’s getting uncomfortable.
- David Astle
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My grandson Pip has discovered a high-yield investment strategy involving the school canteen.
- Richard Glover
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Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Debra Adelaide’s novel about friendship is a tender, complex requiem
The author’s new work auto-fiction reflects on her lifelong friendship with the late writer Gabrielle Carey
- Juliet Rieden
Pop’s most influential innovator returns, hornier than ever
Robyn dives into IVF, motherhood and middle-aged sex on her audacious new album.
- Annabel Ross
This album is the first pop masterpiece of the post-Brat age
April Harper Grey, better known as Underscores, is pop’s new avant-garde genius.
- Robert Moran
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Why the world chose the wrong NSYNC solo star
While Justin Timberlake played it safe with R&B, JC Chasez’s Schizophrenic was a fearless, genre-bending masterpiece that was simply too weird for 2004.
- Tom W. Clarke
Younger people have no idea I spent most of my 20s in a moshpit: Rosalie Ham
The author of The Dressmaker has written a book about ageing, which she gleefully says cannot be done gracefully.
- Jane Sullivan
Arthouse director Jim Jarmusch sums up most things with this three-word catchphrase
If Jim Jarmusch can be said to have anything as brazenly branded as a catchphrase, it would have to be this.
- Stephanie Bunbury