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
Books & arts
1 November 2019
Can the Greens reconcile internal pressures, parliamentary influence and electoral appeal?
Books & arts
29 October 2019
The scrapping of Sydney University’s professorship has great symbolic importance
Books & arts
23 October 2019
Books | There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
Books & arts
22 October 2019
Books | Most of us are cosmopolitan, but how does that mean we should behave?
Books & arts
21 October 2019
Books | By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
Books & arts
14 October 2019
Cinema | Two very different films about family life
Books & arts
9 October 2019
Books | Veteran journalist Brian Toohey probes the network of laws and agencies that’s expanded rapidly in the name of national security
Books & arts
8 October 2019
Books | Was W.H. Auden right to doubt the poem but wrong to suppress its affirming flame?
Books & arts
4 October 2019
Books | Does gender and race fully explain the discrimination faced by women of colour?
Books & arts
1 October 2019
Television | The makers of Unbelievable tell Marie Adler’s story with tact and care
Books & arts
26 September 2019
Cinema | Ambitious storytelling from directors Rodd Rathjen, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
Books & arts
25 September 2019
Books | A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
Books & arts
24 September 2019
Books | Ageing can be a better experience, but we might need to face a few unpleasant facts
Books & arts
13 September 2019
Cinema | Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & arts
13 September 2019
Cinema | Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in The Nightingale
Books & arts
9 September 2019
Television | Wealth is a means rather than an end in the second season of Succession
Books & arts
9 September 2019
Music | Spanning fifty years, the English-born composer’s diverse output features on two new recordings
Books & arts
4 September 2019
A new book shows how it’s being done better — but the first question is whether the will exists
Books & arts
19 August 2019
Books | Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
Books & arts
16 August 2019
Books | Whatever its virtues, more free trade isn’t a slogan likely to win over sceptical voters
Books & arts
13 August 2019
Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & arts
9 August 2019
Cinema | The mob turns nasty in Diego Maradona and The Final Quarter
Books & arts
7 August 2019
Books | Is more democracy the solution to the eurozone’s malaise?
Books & arts
6 August 2019
Theatre | A new staging of Oriel Gray’s The Torrents allows its ideas to shine
Books & arts
2 August 2019
Books | A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work