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Books & arts
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
Books & arts
Markets are great, except when they’re not
Richard Holden
14 May 2019
Books
| John Quiggin’s new book should be compulsory reading for policymakers and commentators
Books & arts
Revivalists of the right
Rodney Tiffen
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
By the book
Jane Goodall
6 May 2019
Television
|
Manhunt
captures the strengths of a dogged but gripping police investigation
Books & arts
Where are you at?
Drusilla Modjeska
19 April 2019
Books
| Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
Books & arts
A story that refuses to accept its own moral
Tom Greenwell
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
Off the money
Jane Goodall
17 April 2019
Television
| Bigger thinking is needed on the small screen
Books & arts
Military mosaic
Graeme Dobell
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
A spectre is haunting the workplace
Brett Evans
11 April 2019
Books
| Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Books & arts
Un cabaret supérieur
Andrew Ford
9 April 2019
Music
| Is there a contradiction between Robyn Archer’s stature as a thinker and her sometimes playful performances?
Books & arts
Landscape with figures
Brian McFarlane
5 April 2019
Cinema
| Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in
Sometimes Always Never
Books & arts
The return of the -isms
Paul ’t Hart
3 April 2019
How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers
Books & arts
A tale of two prime ministers
Jane Goodall
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
The making of an Australian suburb
Chris Cunneen
22 March 2019
Books
| Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Books & arts
A change in the atmosphere
Jane Goodall
18 March 2019
Television
| The different focus and register of season two of
Secret City
reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & arts
Fighting for face
Nick Haslam
14 March 2019
Books
| What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & arts
A new immediacy
Jane Goodall
12 March 2019
Television
| A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & arts
Fun while it lasted
Brian McFarlane
12 March 2019
Cinema
|
Stan & Ollie
looks at what came after the comedy
Books & arts
The decade of thinking dangerously
Susan Lever
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Books & arts
A festival of (compulsory) democracy
Paul Rodan
5 March 2019
Books
| How Australia came to be good at elections
Books & arts
Music’s peripatetic polymath
Andrew Ford
4 March 2019
Music
| Conductor, pianist and composer André Previn did many things rather well
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