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Books & arts
Books & arts
Her mother’s secrets
Susan Lever
13 July 2018
Books
| Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Books & arts
Roads to recovery
Jane Goodall
11 July 2018
Television
| Behind the stereotypes, ABC TV’s
Back Roads
reveals a quiet rural revolution
Books & arts
Magic numbers
Andrew Ford
10 July 2018
Music
| Composer Sally Greenaway’s career has followed a remarkable trajectory
Books & arts
Interruptions
Sara Dowse
9 July 2018
Books
| Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & arts
The people who forgot
Bronwyn Carlson
6 July 2018
Books
| Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his
Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
Privacy by design
Megan Richardson
4 July 2018
Books
| Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
Books & arts
On the wrong side of history
Graeme Smith
26 June 2018
Books
| Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
The year of living anxiously
Graeme Davison
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Books & arts
Cover-up
Julie Rigg
25 June 2018
Cinema
| Samuel Maoz’s
Foxtrot
and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s
Shoplifters
reviewed
Books & arts
Home truths
Ruth Balint
19 June 2018
Books
| Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
Books & arts
Strange worlds
Andrew Ford
12 June 2018
Music
| The longer we listen to the music of Gavin Bryars and Brian Ferneyhough, the more we recognise
Books & arts
Out there
Jane Goodall
6 June 2018
Television
| The ensemble-driven
Mystery Road
deserves to be a hit for the ABC
Books & arts
Populism now?
Shaun Crowe
6 June 2018
Books
|
Shaun Crowe
reviews David McKnight’s
Populism Now!
Books & arts
The journo who never got away
Michael Cannon
5 June 2018
Books
| Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn
all
his bridges in his frank new memoir
Books & arts
Neither here nor there
Brian McFarlane
30 May 2018
Extract
| Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game
Books & arts
Australian diplomacy’s creation story
Graeme Dobell
23 May 2018
Books
| Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Books & arts
The war inside our bodies
Sara Dowse
22 May 2018
Books
| Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)?
Books & arts
The clash of the panels
Jane Goodall
18 May 2018
Television
| In a fraught political environment,
The Drum
and
The Project
offer distinctive perspectives
Books & arts
Europe heads east, Asia heads west
Louise Merrington
16 May 2018
Books
| A former Portugese politician provides a unique perspective on the landmass that stretches from France to China
Books & arts
Out of the shadows
Andrew Ford
8 May 2018
Music
| Peggy Seeger is a remarkable talent in her own right
Books & arts
Sons and others
Julie Rigg
5 May 2018
Cinema
|
Julie Rigg
reviews
Breath
and
Loveless
Books & arts
Life on Earth
Jane Goodall
1 May 2018
Television
| Two bold genre-busting crime series meet with mixed success
Books & arts
Citizen Jones
Brian McFarlane
1 May 2018
Cinema
| As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
Books & arts
Sleeping on it
Sally Ferguson
27 April 2018
Books
| You are how you sleep, according to a persuasive new account of the science of not being awake
Books & arts
Inside Cambridge Analytica
Jane Goodall
19 April 2018
Television
| Behind the algorithms, is this just an old-fashioned propaganda outfit with a thick veneer of spin?
Books & arts
Parallel lives
Brett Evans
11 April 2018
Books
| The former academic and the pugnacious ex-soldier both tell compelling stories about life before politics
Books & arts
Hold your fire
Julie Shiels
9 April 2018
Visual Arts
| The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Books & arts
Judge of the people
Jeremy Gans
9 April 2018
The memoirs of one of Australia’s best-known judges raise important questions about sentencing, politics and the media
Books & arts
Hell or high waters
Glenn Nicholls
7 April 2018
Books
| A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany
Books & arts
What counts, and what gets counted
Carmela Chivers
4 April 2018
Books
| The quest to quantify the performance of our most important institutions can backfire, but what other choice do we have?
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