Five Great Reads: the only female yakuza, a playbook for reputation rehab, and design rules for small spaces

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here After something to peruse this weekend? Welcome (or welcome back) to our weekly roundup of fantastic writing from around the Guardian. If you’re in the mood for something longer form, don’t forget to check out our list of the 100 best novels of all time – where you can tick off the ones you’ve read. Whatever takes your fancy, enjoy settling in with a good read. (Just maybe don’t do it on the loo.) Tony Albert’s new solo show at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art features thousands of pieces of what he’s dubbed “Aboriginalia”: cups, tea towels, playing cards and figurines. These all ostensibly depict Aboriginal people and designs, Dee Jefferson writes, but are created by non-Indigenous people – and often caricatured, exoticised or kitsch. “People sometimes ask: ‘How do you even come across this stuff? We never see any of it.’ Trust me, once [you’re aware of it], it’s everywhere.” – Tony Albert Speaking back to colonial histories: The 45-year-old artist tells Jefferson about his deep relationship with these of

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