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Books & arts
Books & arts
The elephants in Europe’s room
Simon Tormey
7 August 2019
Books
| Is more democracy the solution to the eurozone’s malaise?
Books & arts
A play that came in from the cold
Michelle Arrow
6 August 2019
Theatre
| A new staging of Oriel Gray’s
The Torrents
allows its ideas to shine
Books & arts
Can “the commons” save us from ourselves?
Tim Dunlop
2 August 2019
Books
| A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work
Books & arts
How Hollywood saw England
Brian McFarlane
1 August 2019
Books
| American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Books & arts
Sympathy for the devils
Dominic Kelly
26 July 2019
Books
| Why does Niki Savva empathise with some of Australia’s least attractive politicians?
Books & arts
Rewriting the script
Sara Dowse
25 July 2019
Books
| Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse
Books & arts
Doing the dirty work
Jane Goodall
24 July 2019
Television
| Does
The Loudest Voice
let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
Books & arts
On the road with the Ladies in Black
Sue Milliken
24 July 2019
Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer
Books & arts
Coming home
Jane Goodall
19 July 2019
Television
|
Etched in Bone
tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & arts
The Shakespeare we need
Robert White
12 July 2019
Books
| Emma Smith’s twenty-first century reading of the bard is open-minded and open-ended
Books & arts
The sulphurous intrigue of the past
Matthew Ricketson
12 July 2019
Books
| The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
Books & arts
The jokes that get away
Richard Johnstone
10 July 2019
Books
| Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?
Books & arts
A strategist turns his guns on defence
Nicholas Stuart
9 July 2019
Books
| Hugh White draws on his insider knowledge to pose all the right questions
Books & arts
Look what they’re doing to each other
Julie Rigg
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with
Burning
and
Parasite
Books & arts
Killing for the cause
Paul ’t Hart
30 June 2019
Books
| A social psychologist explores how radicalisation happens
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The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema
| French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
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Paradise lost
Julie Rigg
26 June 2019
Cinema
|
Happy as Lazzaro
is the latest work from a highly original talent
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Eventually the truth catches up
Jane Goodall
25 June 2019
Television
| Four decades on, Soviet scientist Valery Legasov is an unlikely figure for our times
Books & arts
Rescued from the footnotes
Sylvia Martin
25 June 2019
Books
| Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
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Sydney on the edge
Sara Dowse
21 June 2019
Books
| Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Books & arts
Adaptation and adaptability
Brian McFarlane
20 June 2019
Cinema
| To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & arts
Be careful what you wish for
Terry Flew
19 June 2019
Why trust and privacy are not the same thing
Books & arts
Muddy reality
Zora Simic
14 June 2019
What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?
Books & arts
North of Capricorn
Henry Reynolds
11 June 2019
Books
| Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
Books & arts
Softly, softly
Jane Goodall
11 June 2019
Television
| Do even the best interviews go far enough?
Books & arts
The second mountaineer
Nick Haslam
7 June 2019
Books
| Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & arts
“It’s not hard to become a political cartoonist from China, because there are only five or six of us”
Rowan Callick
7 June 2019
Profile
| A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
Books & arts
The tech god that failed
Dominic Kelly
7 June 2019
Books
| Something’s amiss, but has communications strategist Peter Lewis nailed it?
Books & arts
Australia’s forgotten internationalist
David Fettling
31 May 2019
Books
| Labor’s Ben Chifley played a key role in breaking down Australia’s fortress mentality
Books & arts
A setback for The Letdown
Louise Merrington
28 May 2019
Television
| The award-winning comedy series moves back into the mainstream
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