Books & arts
20 February 2020
Music | Marriage Story takes film music into new territory
Books & arts
16 February 2020
What explains the apparent success of populist politics?
Books & arts
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Books & arts
10 February 2020
Can Australia embrace a regional identity?
Books & arts
5 February 2020
Television | Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
Books & arts
29 January 2020
Books | To an alarming degree, reality TV matches how Donald Trump sees the world
Books & arts
7 January 2020
Books | Together, different varieties of capitalism straddle the world like never before
Books & arts
19 December 2019
Television | Our critic’s selection of the best 2019 viewing
Books & arts
15 December 2019
Books | A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Books & arts
15 December 2019
Architecture | The former ETA Foods factory still pulls at the heart strings
Books & arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Books & arts
9 December 2019
Books | What if meritocracy is almost as rigid as the system it replaced?
Books & arts
4 December 2019
Music | Late-career singers can do what young singers can’t
Books & arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
Books & arts
2 December 2019
Books | A Labor MP offers an optimistic view of what multicultural Australia could become
Books & arts
29 November 2019
Stereotypes play a key role in the dysfunctionality of the American justice system
Books & arts
28 November 2019
Television | Binge-watching with polymath Clive James, who died this week
Books & arts
27 November 2019
Books | Ross Garnaut can see Australia leading the world in reducing emissions
Books & arts
22 November 2019
Books | As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
Books & arts
19 November 2019
Cinema | The Irishman and The Report reviewed
Books & arts
19 November 2019
Books | Andrew McGahan was a talented writer with a strong ethical sense who never took himself too seriously
Books & arts
15 November 2019
How did economists steer the world so badly off course?
Books & arts
15 November 2019
Books | Heather Rose has written a novel for uncertain times
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Books | Has relentless scrutiny changed the bureaucracy forever?
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Cinema | The King confirms David Michôd as a major director
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Music | Most performances are by amateur musicians, and that’s no bad thing
Books & arts
10 November 2019
Books | An outsider’s view of the Labor Party’s problems calls for “a paradoxical politics”
Books & arts
8 November 2019
Television | A mid-season shift of gear takes Total Control into different territory
Books & arts
6 November 2019
Books | “In harming myself, I was harming others,” writes Bri Lee in her follow-up to Eggshell Skull
Books & arts
1 November 2019
An anecdotal journey doesn’t always do justice to the complexity of the region