Michael Sun

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Michael Sun

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Let’s play a game. Imagine a book cover emblazoned with an illustrated figure, or two. Their faces are obscured, either by sunglasses or a brushstroke. Or maybe there’s nothing at all – a patch of negative space where eyes and lips should be. The figures are outlined, flat, drawn in blocky silhouettes. The title? Always a tasteful sans serif on a colourful backdrop.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Michael Sun

Cate Blanchett is an actor’s actor. Cate Blanchett is the type of actor whose characters – flinty, steely, sly, sophisticated – are hardly distinguishable from the person herself. She speaks with the jarringly refined accent of an alien trained only on stage melodramas. She does not laugh; she titters. She does not walk; she glides. She does not debase herself with the prosaic concerns of you or I. This is why it is very hard to believe that she is “giving up”.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Michael Sun

Your first comedy show was called My Favourite Shapes. What is your least favourite shape? A pentagon. Or an octagon. There’s a rigidity to it that I find displacing. What’s the oldest thing you own and why do you still have it? You know, I was just going into what I refer to as the forbidden closet in my apartment, which is just a door that I never open. And I saw in there a picture of the inside of a church that my mother took when she was in college.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Michael Sun

No one has had a trajectory like Martha Stewart’s. Over a six-decade career, the 83-year-old has been a Chanel model, a Wall Street suit, an American sweetheart, a lifestyle guru, a media tycoon, a convicted felon and a friend to Snoop Dogg. Now she begins her next chapter: a speaker at Vivid Sydney. Vivid – a light festival designed to be hated by anyone who enjoys activities like “walking through a city without being assailed by foot traffic” – has embarked on a booking spree of late.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Michael Sun

Neil Young has shared his concerns of being barred from the US after his European tour later this year, thanks to his outspoken critiques of Donald Trump. On Tuesday, on his website Neil Young Archives, the 79-year-old musician – who has dual Canadian-American citizenship – wrote of his fears after the recent spate of people being detained and deported upon entering the US.