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Books & arts
Books & arts
The light and the dark
Julie Rigg
3 October 2018
Cinema
| Julie Rigg reviews
Ladies in Black
and
Custody
Books & arts
Globe-trotting possum-stirrers
Sylvia Martin
1 October 2018
Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain
Books & arts
Will a robot take your job?
John Quiggin
27 September 2018
Review essay
| Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & arts
Writers over America
Susan Lever
25 September 2018
Books
| Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Books & arts
On listening
Sara Dowse
14 September 2018
Books
| Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
Books & arts
A banker’s quest for legitimacy
Selwyn Cornish
13 September 2018
Books
| A former Bank of England official offers a warning about unelected decision-makers that Australia might already have heeded
Books & arts
Trusting Aretha
Andrew Ford
10 September 2018
What made Aretha Franklin’s voice so compelling?
Books & arts
How Spike does history
Julie Rigg
31 August 2018
Cinema
|
BlacKkKlansman
is a testament to Lee’s mastery of rapidly shifting moods
Books & arts
The man and his city
Shane Maloney
30 August 2018
From the archive | Shane Maloney
surveys the career of one of Sydney’s best-known fictional characters and the achievement of his creator, Peter Corris, who died this week
Books & arts
Sound and fury, light and shade
Jane Goodall
28 August 2018
Television |
With just days to gather its material,
Four Corners
found a way to explore the human impact of power
Books & arts
Where I came in
Kerry Ryan
21 August 2018
He might not have played
Hurricane
, but Bob Dylan was in fine form in Melbourne
Books & arts
A question of style
Andrew Ford
20 August 2018
Music
| What makes someone a “conservative” composer?
Books & arts
“I don’t believe I left teaching. Teaching left me”
Chris Bonnor
16 August 2018
Books
| As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
Books & arts
Collective madness
Ryan Cropp
14 August 2018
Books
| George Megalogenis gives a vivid account of the development Australian rules football. But what does it mean for politics?
Books & arts
Neoclassical maelstrom
Jane Goodall
9 August 2018
Television
| With just one lapse, an exceptional cast has brought to life the anguished world of Edward St Aubyn
Books & arts
On the edge
Julie Rigg
24 July 2018
Cinema
| New films from Italy and Australia capture life on the
periferia
Books & arts
Two novels, two films
Brian McFarlane
16 July 2018
Cinema
| Translating short works to the screen has its special challenges
Books & arts
The great accounting
Brett Evans
13 July 2018
Books
| Are the Big Four auditing companies facing their moment of truth?
Books & arts
Remembering the Dunera
Peter Mares
13 July 2018
Books
| A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & arts
Her mother’s secrets
Susan Lever
13 July 2018
Books
| Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Books & arts
Roads to recovery
Jane Goodall
11 July 2018
Television
| Behind the stereotypes, ABC TV’s
Back Roads
reveals a quiet rural revolution
Books & arts
Magic numbers
Andrew Ford
10 July 2018
Music
| Composer Sally Greenaway’s career has followed a remarkable trajectory
Books & arts
Interruptions
Sara Dowse
9 July 2018
Books
| Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & arts
The people who forgot
Bronwyn Carlson
6 July 2018
Books
| Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his
Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
Privacy by design
Megan Richardson
4 July 2018
Books
| Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
Books & arts
On the wrong side of history
Graeme Smith
26 June 2018
Books
| Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
The year of living anxiously
Graeme Davison
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Books & arts
Cover-up
Julie Rigg
25 June 2018
Cinema
| Samuel Maoz’s
Foxtrot
and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s
Shoplifters
reviewed
Books & arts
Home truths
Ruth Balint
19 June 2018
Books
| Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
Books & arts
Strange worlds
Andrew Ford
12 June 2018
Music
| The longer we listen to the music of Gavin Bryars and Brian Ferneyhough, the more we recognise
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