Helen Razer, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

Australia is a wretched sunbed maintained by debt and founded in unspeakable acts of racist brutality. Even so, sometimes the …

John McCain: the bits the unctuous obits leave out

Prime Minister Scott Morrison may well be a churchy neoliberal with uncritical regard for US imperial cruelty. It is perhaps …

In mildly troubling news, ABC TV has failed to renew comic current affairs program, Tonightly. In a statement prepared today …

Across the years, there have been two primary questions prompted by my criticism here at Daily Review. One, “Why are …

Some months ago, an imprudent hostess left my mouth empty too long and I began yelling at a fellow diner. …

When The Handmaid’s Tale debuted on screens last year, serious critics urged us to watch and serious feminists urged us to accept …

Last night, dozens of Australians gave in to the choreography of the Logies. There are reports today that the spectacle is …

Ours is an era of chaos. The old forms of political order are dying, the new are yet to find …

“Journalism is not a crime”. Really? I’d say this slogan is hardly unassailable. I’d say this slogan, which began to …

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of ladies struggling to Lean In. This narrow principle informs …