Mandy Sayer

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Cate Kennedy |Tim Winton |Daniel James |Mandy Sayer

‘Stone Yard Devotional’ author Charlotte Wood decompresses on the west coast of Scotland ahead of the Booker Prize announcement When I talk to Charlotte Wood – fresh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a side-trip to Ireland and the news of her latest book’s longlisting for the 2024 Booker Prize – she is sojourning at Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast.

Sep 29, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Daniel James |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Mandy Sayer

Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds tells me in the living room of her small flat on the west side of Alice Springs. She is a gentle woman, 76 years old and grandmother to 12. She’s an accomplished and recognised artist – her work has been projected onto the Sydney Opera House.

Sep 28, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Mandy Sayer |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

How the cashless society and bureaucratic management of public spaces have cleared the streets of buskers As I’m walking through the The Rocks Market in Sydney, I find myself thinking that this would be a great place to draw a crowd as a busker. The roads are closed off, the area is full of tourists and there are plenty of patches of pavement for a performer to set up shop. I haven’t worked the streets for nearly 40 years, but you know what they say about old habits.

Sep 26, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Cate Kennedy |Daniel James |Mandy Sayer |Susan Johnson

Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Life sentences Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon Essays Culture On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2024 Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist Books Writer’s loch ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ author Charlotte Wood decompresses on the west coast of Scotland ahead of the Booker Prize announcement The Nation Reviewed...

Sep 26, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James |Mandy Sayer

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist There’s a reasonable chance that any reflection on Australia’s artistic year in 2024 will inevitably wind up being an assessment of the turmoil facing our cultural institutions. It’s not an exaggeration to say that at times it felt like the local arts scene did more public and private reckoning with grief and anger over Gaza than our political classes.