Culture

Daniel Andrews, by Sumeyya Ilanbey

As a general rule, Australians are not much interested in political biographi...

The Crown Season 5 on Netflix: praise for Elizabeth ...

Netflix hit series The Crown returns for a fifth season, and Elizabeth Debick...

Is the ‘brotherly love’ in martial arts films homoer...

Stanley Kwan used a 1997 documentary to argue the male bonding in director Ch...

Have a Carrot: Picture Books

Virginia Albert, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sometime between midni...

The Big Teal, by Simon Holmes à Court

The Big Teal is a brief account of the strategy behind the rise of the indepe...

Who is Kim Go-eun, the Chinese-speaking star of K-dr...

Kim Go-eun, star of Little Women and Yumi’s Cells, landed her first role in t...

Disney+ K-drama Revenge of Others: high school reven...

Disney+ series about high school bullying and revenge starts off a sorry mess...

Re-Covered: She-Crab Soup by Dawn Langley Simmons

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Virginia Woolf once asked a littl...

Waiting, by Goretti Kyomuhendo (Decolonising a Blog…...

Just before Remembrance Day, 2022, I came across  a review by Francis P Sempa...

He made his K-pop debut at 34. Meet Singaporean busi...

Singaporean David Yong is not just a successful businessman – he is a K-pop s...

I Remember All Too Well: Taylor Swift and Joe Brainard

Taylor Swift. Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 4.0. Last year, I began r...

Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 3 — A Q&A wit...

This is the third in a series BLARB will be running of interviews with some o...

Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 4: A Double Q...

This is the fourth in a series of interviews BLARB has been running to introd...

Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 5 — A Q&A wit...

This is the fifth in our BLARB series made up of interviews with some of the ...

Stormy Weather, by Michael Meehan

Reviews From the Archive An occasional series, retrieving unpublished reviews...

Netflix K-drama Behind Every Star: ensemble agency d...

Netflix K-drama Behind Every Star, a remake of the popular French drama Call ...