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Books & arts
The teller and the tale
Tim Rowse
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s
Dark Emu
Books & arts
On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
Nick Haslam
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
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
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