Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
op of the weekend to you all. Some weeks the world comes at you faster than others, and my aching eyeballs suggest it’s been a hectic one. Which may explain why at least one of this week’s great reads had me welling up. You’ve been warned.Noah Lyles of the United States crosses the line to win gold in the men’s 100m final by five thousandths of a second.Let’s step away from the Raygun discourse for a moment to celebrate the unsung heroes of Paris: the photographers.
With the broadcasting rights held tightly, most news outlets were forced to rely on stills to complement their reporting. And from surfer Gabriel Medina levitating to, umm, Snoop Dogg feeding a horse, the snappers delivered.
As the performer sees it, being non-binary or trans allows you to “change and redefine yourself”. They talk to Adam Needham about the “joyful humanness” of their Edinburgh show, Testo, and their mixed feelings about RuPaul’s Drag Race.When the Israeli scholar Omer Bartov returned from his adopted home in the US to give a university lecture on campus protests against Israel, he faced a protest of his own.
Bartov writes that the young students had developed a way of thinking, revved up by incendiary rhetoric from Israel’s politicians,“The Israeli public long ago became inured to the brutal occupation that has characterised the country for 57 out of the 76 years of its existence. But the scale of what is being perpetrated in Gaza right now by the IDF is as unprecedented as the complete indifference of most Israelis to what is being done in their name.
The film is based on Raimond Gaita’s memoir of life as an immigrant’s son in 1960s Victoria. Gaita says the message from the screenwriter when Smit-McPhee was discovered was simple: “They found a miracle.”The story of Gaita and Smit-McPhee’s first meeting at the shoot’s wrap party will warm the cockles, I promise.Unless you can make it to the Melbourne international film festival on 17 August, no streaming providers offer the film on their subscription service.
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