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
Books & arts
3 February 2019
Grattan Institute researchers show who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy
Books & arts
29 January 2019
Books | How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Books & arts
20 January 2019
Books | Journalist Shane Bauer’s account of life as a warder is as authoritative as it is raw
Books & arts
18 January 2019
Television | Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & arts
18 January 2019
Books | Are wealthy foundations, backed by tax breaks, wielding too much power?
Books & arts
15 January 2019
Books | The world’s in better shape than we thought
Books & arts
14 January 2019
Books | “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
9 January 2019
Books | Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
Books & arts
4 January 2019
Books | A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Adam McKay’s Vice and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in The Favourite
Books & arts
24 December 2018
Television | The best three series of 2018
Books & arts
23 December 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & arts
20 December 2018
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Books & arts
19 December 2018
Writers and readers nominate the outstanding books they read during the year that might not have gained the attention they deserved
Books & arts
19 December 2018
Books | Are Labor and the Greens divided by their common ground?
Books & arts
17 December 2018
Books | The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Music | Dance metres and rhythms are everywhere in the music of Bach
Books & arts
6 December 2018
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative