Books & arts
20 January 2019
Books | Journalist Shane Bauer’s account of life as a warder is as authoritative as it is raw
Books & arts
18 January 2019
Television | Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & arts
18 January 2019
Books | Are wealthy foundations, backed by tax breaks, wielding too much power?
Books & arts
15 January 2019
Books | The world’s in better shape than we thought
Books & arts
14 January 2019
Books | “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
9 January 2019
Books | Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
Books & arts
4 January 2019
Books | A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Adam McKay’s Vice and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in The Favourite
Books & arts
24 December 2018
Television | The best three series of 2018
Books & arts
23 December 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & arts
20 December 2018
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Books & arts
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
19 December 2018
Books | Are Labor and the Greens divided by their common ground?
Books & arts
17 December 2018
Books | The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Music | Dance metres and rhythms are everywhere in the music of Bach
Books & arts
6 December 2018
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
Books & arts
26 November 2018
Cinema | Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
Books & arts
23 November 2018
Opera Australia’s production deftly undercut the dark side of one of the composer’s best-known works
Books & arts
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Books & arts
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & arts
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
2 November 2018
Music | The composition was in on time, but was it any good?
Books & arts
2 November 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Backtrack Boys and Beautiful Boy
Books & arts
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
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & arts
26 October 2018
Television | Doctor Who meets Broadchurch in its latest incarnation