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Raising Kane
Brian McFarlane
11 April 2021
Cinema
| Gary Oldman brings screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to vivid life
Books & Arts
What happens next
Zora Simic
10 April 2021
Books
| Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
Books & Arts
Server servitude
Brett Evans
9 April 2021
Books
| Our brains weren’t designed for 126 emails a day
Books & Arts
Philosophers under siege
Janna Thompson
7 April 2021
Books
| Are reports of philosophy’s death premature?
Books & Arts
How does one get used to it?
Phillip Deery
1 April 2021
Books
| Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story
Books & Arts
French sensations
Zora Simic
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
Books & Arts
“I’m the best of them”
Patrick Mullins
19 March 2021
Books
| Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
Books & Arts
Sounds of silence
Andrew Ford
15 March 2021
Music
| As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Books & Arts
Chronicle of a death foretold
Brian McFarlane
10 March 2021
Cinema
| Sam Neill stands out among a strong cast in Roger Michell’s
Blackbird
Books & Arts
Beyond apocalypse fatigue
Ian McAuley
9 March 2021
Books
| We can have economic growth without wrecking the planet, says economist Per Espen Stoknes
Books & Arts
Crossing the war-reporting lines
Sara Dowse
5 March 2021
Books
| Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
Books & Arts
But how liberal was he?
Stuart Macintyre
4 March 2021
Books
| David Kemp’s multi-volume history of Australian liberalism continues into the Menzies era
Books & Arts
Alliance of convenience
Brenda Niall
1 March 2021
Books
| How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
Books & Arts
How the light gets in
Jane Goodall
26 February 2021
Television
| Two Danish crime series probe everyday darkness
Books & Arts
The moral complexity of truth-telling
Tim Rowse
26 February 2021
Books
| Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
Books & Arts
Sublime morality without the miracles
Janna Thompson
24 February 2021
Books
| The afterlife of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
Books & Arts
Now he sang, now he sobbed
Andrew Ford
19 February 2021
Chick Corea’s remarkable musical output emerged from a welter of seeming contradictions
Books & Arts
Between the covers
Phillipa McGuinness
12 February 2021
Books
| Big personalities vie with an unforgiving marketplace in this insider’s view of publishing
Books & Arts
Foiled expectations
Kerrie Davies
12 February 2021
Books
| Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
Books & Arts
Reckless game
Brian McFarlane
11 February 2021
Books
| A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & Arts
When great friends are no help
John Edwards
10 February 2021
Books
| Australia’s decision to join the United States in competition with China has backfired damagingly
Books & Arts
Light and shade
Andrew Ford
9 February 2021
Music
| Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & Arts
Monsters are men
Zora Simic
8 February 2021
Books
| A provocative essayist takes stock of “sex panics” and their legacies
Books & Arts
The political is the personal
Sara Dowse
5 February 2021
Books
| A freewheeling memoir is less about the author than the people and forces that shaped him
Books & Arts
Talking about a moral emergency
Jane Goodall
3 February 2021
Television
| The coverage of events in Washington was a study in contrasts
Books & Arts
Restless minds
Hamish McDonald
2 February 2021
Books
| Historian Tim Harper enters the hidden world of early-twentieth-century Asian revolutionaries
Books & Arts
Dressing up
Jane Goodall
1 February 2021
Television
|
Bridgerton
isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
Books & Arts
A hard nut in the centre
Susan Lever
18 December 2020
Books
| A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries
Books & Arts
Does your world add up?
Andrew Leigh
17 December 2020
Books
| In a world saturated in statistics, Tim Harford is a vital guide
Books & Arts
Figures in a landscape
Brian McFarlane
15 December 2020
Cinema
| Like all the best cinematic remakes,
Rams
stands on its own feet
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