Books & arts
15 December 2020
Cinema | Like all the best cinematic remakes, Rams stands on its own feet
Books & arts
14 December 2020
Television | The highs and occasional lows of Four Corners’ coverage of 2020
Books & arts
14 December 2020
The long writing career of John le Carré, who died on Saturday
Books & arts
9 December 2020
Books | From butterflies to humans, migration is essential and unstoppable
Books & arts
9 December 2020
Music | Dynasties, traditions and the trailblazing teacher-performer Nadia Boulanger
Books & arts
8 December 2020
When ethical views come pre-packaged, it’s hard to have productive conversations
Books & arts
8 December 2020
Books | How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Books & arts
30 November 2020
Books | The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
Books & arts
30 November 2020
Books | Or are reports of its demise premature?
Books & arts
28 November 2020
Television | The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Books & arts
26 November 2020
Books | Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & arts
26 November 2020
One of the creators of the Macquarie Dictionary ventilates her thoughts on the Australian language
Books & arts
25 November 2020
Books | How extreme misogyny affects us all
Books & arts
24 November 2020
Books | A centenary history reveals how vice-chancellors have negotiated shifts in politics and policy
Books & arts
20 November 2020
Books | In the desire to change China do we risk rewriting its history?
Books & arts
16 November 2020
Books | Is it only other people who use words offensively?
Books & arts
13 November 2020
Books| Like the rest of us, cartoonists lived through a gruelling year
Books & arts
11 November 2020
Books | Does a distinguished librarian’s defence of archives go far enough?
Books & arts
9 November 2020
Books | China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
Books & arts
5 November 2020
Books | Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & arts
3 November 2020
Journalist Evan Osnos profiles a politician with a half century’s momentum
Books & arts
2 November 2020
Books | What the Palace didn’t do during the 1975 constitutional crisis was as important as what it did
Books & arts
30 October 2020
Cinema | What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Books & arts
27 October 2020
Books | Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & arts
19 October 2020
Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory
Books & arts
8 October 2020
Television | The Comey Rule reminds us that there’s no such thing as a bombshell in the Trump era
Books & arts
4 October 2020
Music | Mahan Esfahani wants to rescue the harpsichord from history
Books & arts
30 September 2020
Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & arts
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
Books & arts
21 September 2020
Books | Lawyer Andrew Boe’s heartfelt memoir of a life in the law