Books & arts
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
26 April 2020
Books | Despotism, reinvented, is here to stay (and could be coming our way)
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
Books & arts
25 April 2020
Music | Why has Australia been so much less generous to locked-down artists than Britain or Germany?
Books & arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
21 April 2020
A second selection of the best locked-down television
Books & arts
20 April 2020
Four recent books provide partial answers. But are they asking the right question?
Books & arts
17 April 2020
Books | Clear, direct and sometimes cheeky, Fire Country is about more than fire
Books & arts
15 April 2020
Books | London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Books & arts
14 April 2020
Music | What happens when a composer becomes a reporter?
Books & arts
10 April 2020
Our critic’s selection of the best of locked-down television
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate?
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | The latest analysis of Labor’s defeat last May relies on all the wrong people
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Books | How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Television | Stateless points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Music | The first modern composer celebrates his 250th birthday
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Books | Biographer Sylvia Martin turns her lens onto herself
Books & arts
10 March 2020
A New York Times columnist’s provocative analysis of America’s ills
Books & arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Has Geoffrey Robertson made a persuasive case for returning heritage objects?
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Literary critic Vivian Gornick’s latest book is as much about life as it is about reading
Books & arts
26 February 2020
Theatre | Zoe Caldwell, who died last week, was the second Australian to perform Medea to wide acclaim
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?