Books & arts
15 April 2020
Books | London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Books & arts
14 April 2020
Music | What happens when a composer becomes a reporter?
Books & arts
10 April 2020
Our critic’s selection of the best of locked-down television
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate?
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | The latest analysis of Labor’s defeat last May relies on all the wrong people
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Books | How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Television | Stateless points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Music | The first modern composer celebrates his 250th birthday
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Books | Biographer Sylvia Martin turns her lens onto herself
Books & arts
10 March 2020
A New York Times columnist’s provocative analysis of America’s ills
Books & arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Has Geoffrey Robertson made a persuasive case for returning heritage objects?
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Literary critic Vivian Gornick’s latest book is as much about life as it is about reading
Books & arts
26 February 2020
Theatre | Zoe Caldwell, who died last week, was the second Australian to perform Medea to wide acclaim
Books & arts
20 February 2020
Music | Marriage Story takes film music into new territory
Books & arts
16 February 2020
What explains the apparent success of populist politics?
Books & arts
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Books & arts
10 February 2020
Can Australia embrace a regional identity?
Books & arts
5 February 2020
Television | Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
Books & arts
29 January 2020
Books | To an alarming degree, reality TV matches how Donald Trump sees the world
Books & arts
7 January 2020
Books | Together, different varieties of capitalism straddle the world like never before
Books & arts
19 December 2019
Television | Our critic’s selection of the best 2019 viewing
Books & arts
15 December 2019
Books | A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Books & arts
15 December 2019
Architecture | The former ETA Foods factory still pulls at the heart strings
Books & arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Books & arts
9 December 2019
Books | What if meritocracy is almost as rigid as the system it replaced?