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Books & arts
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
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
“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
The moral complexity of truth-telling
Tim Rowse
26 February 2021
Books
| Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
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
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