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Books & arts
If not, try singing it
Zora Simic
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
Toora loo rye ay
Andrew Ford
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s
Wakefield
Books & arts
Gloves off
Carolyn Collins
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & arts
Menzies the puritan idealist
Ian Hancock
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
Holding on
Brian McFarlane
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & arts
Location, location, location
Jane Goodall
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown
shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & arts
Metamorphosis
Peter Singer
31 May 2021
Why the world needed a new edition of
The Golden Ass
Books & arts
Killing the cop in your head
Declan Fry
25 May 2021
Forty ways of looking at Veronica Gorrie’s
Black and Blue
Books & arts
“Better to lose Australia”
Mark Edele
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
Books & arts
Spy versus spies
Stephen Mills
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & arts
Beijing blackout
Mark Baker
21 May 2021
The departure of Australia’s last correspondents from Beijing has made a volatile situation worse
Books & arts
Covid’s political
co-morbidities
Rodney Tiffen
21 May 2021
With populists emerging badly from the pandemic, public opinion could be shifting in favour of good government
Books & arts
At a hinge point in history
Jane Goodall
19 May 2021
Stan Grant distils his travels into an argument about the future
Books & arts
All quiet about the Western Front
Margaret Hutchison
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & arts
Become what you are!
Seumas Spark
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken
Dunera
story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
Everything under heaven
Linda Jaivin
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
Books & arts
In the field
Martha Macintyre
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
Not singing, but being a singer
Andrew Ford
14 May 2021
Who exactly
were
the New Romantics?
Books & arts
A risk-taker in the laboratory
Janna Thompson
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & arts
The self-esteem racket, and other quick fixes
Nick Haslam
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Books & arts
The power and proximity of the dragon
Graeme Dobell
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & arts
Frocks, sweat and tears
Diana Bagnall
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
Books & arts
What does it take?
Jane Goodall
30 April 2021
Our reviewer follows Greta Thunberg’s 2019 journey
Books & arts
Letting the repellent in
Patrick Mullins
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
Books & arts
Balkan polyphony
Sara Dowse
16 April 2021
Books
| The region that gave the world the word “balkanised” proves a fascinating setting for a travel book with a difference
Books & arts
Once a winner
Frank Bongiorno
16 April 2021
A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
Books & arts
A style we could call our own?
Gary Werskey
12 April 2021
It’s time for a new conversation about Australian impressionism
Books & arts
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
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