Books & arts
Survival valley
Callum Clayton-Dixon
24 June 2020
Books | Historian Mark Dunn is alive to the complexities of early contact in the Hunter region
Books & arts
Nothing inspires like success
Julie Rigg
18 June 2020
Cinema | A new documentary highlights a milestone in the fight for women’s rights
Books & arts
Off-water matters
Hamish McDonald
17 June 2020
Books | Australia can’t afford to take its nearest neighbours for granted
Books & arts
Cinema in a time of coronavirus
Julie Rigg
15 June 2020
Cinema | Back from a different kind of isolation, our critic catches up on Hearts and Bones, Motherless Brooklyn and the screen landscape
Books & arts
Letting go
Yves Rees
10 June 2020
Books | A riotous reimagining of the trans memoir
Books & arts
The long journey home
Emma Lee
5 June 2020
Books | A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & arts
God bless America
Andrew Ford
5 June 2020
One country, two very different songs
Books & arts
Before the dust settled
Jessica Urwin
4 June 2020
Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
Books & arts
Chaos is come again
Jane Goodall
4 June 2020
Television | Does Road to Now’s attempt to find connections simply show that things fall apart?
Books & arts
Literary censorship’s last gasp
Amanda Laugesen
2 June 2020
Books | A compelling account of a significant cultural moment
Books & arts
TV drama and the revival of Australian theatre and film
Susan Lever
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & arts
Before the triumphs and the tragedies
Norman Abjorensen
2 June 2020
Books | A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
Books & arts
Film as history
Brian McFarlane
29 May 2020
Books | The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & arts
Decent creatures
Sara Dowse
27 May 2020
Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & arts
When the market is the policy, housing fails
Peter Mares
25 May 2020
Books | Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
Books & arts
Adventures in feminism
Zora Simic
20 May 2020
Books | We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Books & arts
The new chamber music
Andrew Ford
20 May 2020
Music | What happens when the composer can really see the audience?
Books & arts
Screen production in a time of pandemic
Nick Herd
20 May 2020
Australian-based production is beginning its slow recovery
Books & arts
Boots on the ground
Jane Goodall
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own
Books & arts
Malaysia’s amazing political rollercoaster
Graeme Dobell
12 May 2020
Books | Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
Books & arts
Sick of all my kicks
Nick Haslam
30 April 2020
Books | Should we embrace boredom?
Books & arts
Is this the secret of successful slowing?
John Edwards
29 April 2020
Books | Declining growth is inevitable in a maturing economy, according to economist Dietrich Vollrath
Books & arts
War by other means
Tom Uren
28 April 2020
Books | The Hacker and the State vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & arts
Frontier thinking
Henry Reynolds
27 April 2020
Books | Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
Books & arts
Voluntary servitude
Paul ’t Hart
26 April 2020
Books | Despotism, reinvented, is here to stay (and could be coming our way)
Books & arts
The Prince
Frank Bongiorno
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
Books & arts
Crisis with no soundtrack
Andrew Ford
25 April 2020
Music | Why has Australia been so much less generous to locked-down artists than Britain or Germany?
Books & arts
The conditions of art
Susan Lever
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
Other worlds
Jane Goodall
21 April 2020
A second selection of the best locked-down television
Books & arts
Is illiberalism the force of the future?
Klaus Neumann
20 April 2020
Four recent books provide partial answers. But are they asking the right question?
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