Books & arts
14 May 2019
Books | John Quiggin’s new book should be compulsory reading for policymakers and commentators
Books & arts
8 May 2019
Books | Three men and four organisations were at the centre of a movement with an outsized impact on Australian politics
Books & arts
6 May 2019
Television | Manhunt captures the strengths of a dogged but gripping police investigation
Books & arts
19 April 2019
Books | Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
Books & arts
17 April 2019
Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Books & arts
17 April 2019
Television | Bigger thinking is needed on the small screen
Books & arts
15 April 2019
Books | A former diplomat tells the story of the “talented cross-section” of Fiji’s youth who enlisted in the British Army in 1962
Books & arts
11 April 2019
Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Books & arts
9 April 2019
Music | Is there a contradiction between Robyn Archer’s stature as a thinker and her sometimes playful performances?
Books & arts
5 April 2019
Cinema | Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in Sometimes Always Never
Books & arts
3 April 2019
How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers
Books & arts
26 March 2019
Television | Waleed Aly’s encounters with Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the political interview
Books & arts
22 March 2019
Books | Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Books & arts
18 March 2019
Television | The different focus and register of season two of Secret City reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & arts
12 March 2019
Television | A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & arts
12 March 2019
Cinema | Stan & Ollie looks at what came after the comedy
Books & arts
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Books & arts
5 March 2019
Books | How Australia came to be good at elections
Books & arts
4 March 2019
Music | Conductor, pianist and composer André Previn did many things rather well
Books & arts
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
Books & arts
1 March 2019
Books | As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
Books & arts
19 February 2019
Books | Stoked by cigarettes and whiskey, Kenneth Cook kept writing until the end
Books & arts
11 February 2019
Books | What France’s yellow jacket protestors may be trying to tell us
Books & arts
11 February 2019
Books | A blind spot among economists has helped price housing out of reach
Books & arts
11 February 2019
Music | A tribute to the fearless English-born tenor Gerald English, who’d lived in Australia since 1977
Books & arts
7 February 2019
The goal might be the same, but each publisher finds its own way of connecting writers and readers
Books & arts
6 February 2019
Television | ABC1’s new current affairs line-up needs to break the mould
Books & arts
6 February 2019
Cinema | Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in Mary Queen of Scots
Books & arts
4 February 2019
Cinema | Green Book and Loro reviewed, and a second look at The Favourite