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Books & arts
Books & arts
Late-onset ageing
Brett Evans
24 September 2019
Books
| Ageing can be a better experience, but we might need to face a few unpleasant facts
Books & arts
Another Palm Beach
Brian McFarlane
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & arts
Metamorphoses
Julie Rigg
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in
The Nightingale
Books & arts
What makes the rich different
Jane Goodall
9 September 2019
Television
| Wealth is a means rather than an end in the second season of
Succession
Books & arts
Roger Smalley’s fingerprints
Andrew Ford
9 September 2019
Music
| Spanning fifty years, the English-born composer’s diverse output features on two new recordings
Books & arts
Inappropriate lobbying? Australia doesn’t compare so well
Nicholas Stuart
4 September 2019
A new book shows how it’s being done better — but the first question is whether the will exists
Books & arts
Chardonnay socialist
Ryan Cropp
19 August 2019
Books
| Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
Books & arts
Defending globalisation
Carmela Chivers
16 August 2019
Books
| Whatever its virtues, more free trade isn’t a slogan likely to win over sceptical voters
Books & arts
Ghosted
Susan Lever
13 August 2019
Books
| Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & arts
Predictable pile-ons
Julie Rigg
9 August 2019
Cinema
| The mob turns nasty in
Diego Maradona
and
The Final Quarter
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
Books & arts
The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema
| French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
Books & arts
Paradise lost
Julie Rigg
26 June 2019
Cinema
|
Happy as Lazzaro
is the latest work from a highly original talent
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
Sydney on the edge
Sara Dowse
21 June 2019
Books
| Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
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