Books & arts
19 July 2019
Television | Etched in Bone tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & arts
12 July 2019
Books | Emma Smith’s twenty-first century reading of the bard is open-minded and open-ended
Books & arts
12 July 2019
Books | The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
Books & arts
10 July 2019
Books | Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?
Books & arts
9 July 2019
Books | Hugh White draws on his insider knowledge to pose all the right questions
Books & arts
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with Burning and Parasite
Books & arts
30 June 2019
Books | A social psychologist explores how radicalisation happens
Books & arts
28 June 2019
Cinema | French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
Books & arts
26 June 2019
Cinema | Happy as Lazzaro is the latest work from a highly original talent
Books & arts
25 June 2019
Television | Four decades on, Soviet scientist Valery Legasov is an unlikely figure for our times
Books & arts
25 June 2019
Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
Books & arts
21 June 2019
Books | Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Books & arts
20 June 2019
Cinema | To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & arts
19 June 2019
Why trust and privacy are not the same thing
Books & arts
14 June 2019
What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?
Books & arts
11 June 2019
Books | Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
Books & arts
11 June 2019
Television | Do even the best interviews go far enough?
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Profile | A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Books | Something’s amiss, but has communications strategist Peter Lewis nailed it?
Books & arts
31 May 2019
Books | Labor’s Ben Chifley played a key role in breaking down Australia’s fortress mentality
Books & arts
28 May 2019
Television | The award-winning comedy series moves back into the mainstream
Books & arts
14 May 2019
Books | John Quiggin’s new book should be compulsory reading for policymakers and commentators
Books & arts
8 May 2019
Books | Three men and four organisations were at the centre of a movement with an outsized impact on Australian politics
Books & arts
6 May 2019
Television | Manhunt captures the strengths of a dogged but gripping police investigation
Books & arts
19 April 2019
Books | Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
Books & arts
17 April 2019
Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Books & arts
17 April 2019
Television | Bigger thinking is needed on the small screen
Books & arts
15 April 2019
Books | A former diplomat tells the story of the “talented cross-section” of Fiji’s youth who enlisted in the British Army in 1962
Books & arts
11 April 2019
Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers