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Facts as therapy
Carmela Chivers
15 January 2019
Books
| The world’s in better shape than we thought
Books & arts
Radio revolutionary
Jock Given
14 January 2019
Books
| “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
Requiem for the World Wide Web
Tom Greenwell
9 January 2019
Books
| Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
Books & arts
Risky business
Robert Phiddian
4 January 2019
Books
| A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
Books & arts
Running hot and cold
Julie Rigg
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg
reviews Adam McKay’s
Vice
and Pawel Pawlikowski’s
Cold War
Books & arts
Just the ticket
Brian McFarlane
3 January 2019
Cinema
| Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in
The Favourite
Books & arts
Far horizons
Jane Goodall
24 December 2018
Television
| The best three series of 2018
Books & arts
What is civilisation anyway?
Janna Thompson
23 December 2018
Television
| The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & arts
This is America
Sara Dowse
20 December 2018
Books
| Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Books & arts
What we were reading in 2018
Inside Story contributors
19 December 2018
Writers and readers nominate the outstanding books they read during the year that might not have gained the attention they deserved
Books & arts
Working together, living apart
Kate Crowley
19 December 2018
Books
| Are Labor and the Greens divided by their common ground?
Books & arts
The crocodile and the wafer
Ken Haley
17 December 2018
Books
| The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
Books & arts
Saint Germaine
Susan Lever
7 December 2018
Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & arts
The dance of God
Andrew Ford
7 December 2018
Music
| Dance metres and rhythms are everywhere in the music of Bach
Books & arts
An adaptation for grown-ups
Brian McFarlane
6 December 2018
Cinema
|
The Children Act
succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Books & arts
Cosmopolitan storyteller
Janna Thompson
3 December 2018
Books
| Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Books & arts
Fighting on all fronts
Norman Abjorensen
3 December 2018
Books
| A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
Books & arts
Remembered intimacies
Julie Rigg
26 November 2018
Cinema
| Alfonso Cuarón’s
Roma
reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
Books & arts
Saving Wagner from himself
Janna Thompson
23 November 2018
Opera Australia’s production deftly undercut the dark side of one of the composer’s best-known works
Books & arts
Fever in the blood
Graeme Dobell
19 November 2018
Books
| Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Books & arts
Curiouser and curiouser: the strange world of the global super-rich
Carmela Chivers
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & arts
Archive of awfulness
Stephen Mills
8 November 2018
Books
| Teamed up with Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson seems set to again follow the trajectory documented by Kerry-Anne Walsh
Books & arts
Welcome to my anxiety
Andrew Ford
2 November 2018
Music
| The composition was in on time, but was it any good?
Books & arts
Out of the danger zone
Julie Rigg
2 November 2018
Cinema
| Julie Rigg reviews
Backtrack Boys
and
Beautiful Boy
Books & arts
Crimes and punishments
Andrew Leigh
1 November 2018
New York managed to stop the school-to-crime pipeline without increasing the imprisonment rate. Meanwhile, Australia is investing heavily in jail-building
Books & arts
The true story of Billy McMahon
David Solomon
31 October 2018
Biography
| Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & arts
Asking the right questions
Jane Goodall
26 October 2018
Television
|
Doctor Who
meets
Broadchurch
in its latest incarnation
Books & arts
An exhibition extraordinary in its ordinariness
Annemarie McLaren
26 October 2018
Exhibition
| A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Books & arts
Messing about with boats and billionaires
Robin Jeffrey
24 October 2018
Books
| Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
Books & arts
Poor white bloke
Frank Bongiorno
22 October 2018
Books
| Is Barnaby Joyce on the rise again? On the evidence of his memoir, things could get ugly
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