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From hilarious fiction by Terry Pratchett and PG Wodehouse to memoirs by Patricia Lockwood and Adam Kay, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

This week Andrew Scott revealed he stopped performing Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy on stage when he spotted an audience member doing his emails. But is the relentless debate on ‘audience etiquette’ in danger of making theatre seem like a place with too many rules, asks Jessie Thompson

Nora Ephron's 1998 rom-com delivers timeless messages about love, but also about what we lose embracing capitalism

It's time Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan reunite and give a new generation an epic romcom to obsess over like You've Got Mail, but not.

Exclusive: What Happens Later stars Meg Ryan and David Duchovny talk filming in airports, lost connections, and magic realism

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

Put these recent (and not-so-recent) titles on your gift list as the year wanes in Washington, recommended by readers in Congress.

No one can do what Meryl Streep does

Dubbed the romcom queen, Meg Ryan's extensive rom-com filmography is unbeatable

The queen of rom-coms plays with the genre in What Happens Later.