Books & arts
Military mosaic
Graeme Dobell
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
A spectre is haunting the workplace
Brett Evans
11 April 2019
Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Books & arts
Un cabaret supérieur
Andrew Ford
9 April 2019
Music | Is there a contradiction between Robyn Archer’s stature as a thinker and her sometimes playful performances?
Books & arts
Landscape with figures
Brian McFarlane
5 April 2019
Cinema | Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in Sometimes Always Never
Books & arts
The return of the -isms
Paul ’t Hart
3 April 2019
How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers
Books & arts
A tale of two prime ministers
Jane Goodall
26 March 2019
Television | Waleed Aly’s encounters with Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the political interview
Books & arts
The making of an Australian suburb
Chris Cunneen
22 March 2019
Books | Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Books & arts
A change in the atmosphere
Jane Goodall
18 March 2019
Television | The different focus and register of season two of Secret City reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & arts
Fighting for face
Nick Haslam
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & arts
A new immediacy
Jane Goodall
12 March 2019
Television | A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & arts
Fun while it lasted
Brian McFarlane
12 March 2019
Cinema | Stan & Ollie looks at what came after the comedy
Books & arts
The decade of thinking dangerously
Susan Lever
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Books & arts
A festival of (compulsory) democracy
Paul Rodan
5 March 2019
Books | How Australia came to be good at elections
Books & arts
Music’s peripatetic polymath
Andrew Ford
4 March 2019
Music | Conductor, pianist and composer André Previn did many things rather well
Books & arts
Reconciliation without tears
Julie Rigg
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
Books & arts
Who owned the owners?
Michael Cannon
1 March 2019
Books | As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
Books & arts
A kind of heroism
Sara Dowse
19 February 2019
Books | Stoked by cigarettes and whiskey, Kenneth Cook kept writing until the end
Books & arts
Towards a second democratic revolution
Paul ’t Hart
11 February 2019
Books | What France’s yellow jacket protestors may be trying to tell us
Books & arts
Why houses cost too much
Brendan Coates
11 February 2019
Books | A blind spot among economists has helped price housing out of reach
Books & arts
A servant of the music
Andrew Ford
11 February 2019
Music | A tribute to the fearless English-born tenor Gerald English, who’d lived in Australia since 1977
Books & arts
Collegial but competitive, university presses are still going strong
Phillipa McGuinness
7 February 2019
The goal might be the same, but each publisher finds its own way of connecting writers and readers
Books & arts
Reality bites
Jane Goodall
6 February 2019
Television | ABC1’s new current affairs line-up needs to break the mould
Books & arts
Dangerous oppositions
Brian McFarlane
6 February 2019
Cinema | Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in Mary Queen of Scots
Books & arts
Dangerous liaisons
Julie Rigg
4 February 2019
Cinema | Green Book and Loro reviewed, and a second look at The Favourite
Books & arts
The real story of Labor’s dividend imputation reforms
Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood
3 February 2019
Grattan Institute researchers show who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy
Books & arts
From the ranks of the dead
Ray Cassin
29 January 2019
Books | How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Books & arts
Undercover in an American prison
Rick Sarre
20 January 2019
Books | Journalist Shane Bauer’s account of life as a warder is as authoritative as it is raw
Books & arts
Smiling villainy
Jane Goodall
18 January 2019
Television | Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & arts
Wrestling with public morality
Glyn Davis
18 January 2019
Books | Are wealthy foundations, backed by tax breaks, wielding too much power?
Books & arts
Facts as therapy
Carmela Chivers
15 January 2019
Books | The world’s in better shape than we thought
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