Books & arts
25 September 2017
Music | “Improvise” and “embellish” can be alarming words for a classically trained composer
Books & arts
18 September 2017
Brian Burke’s doorstopper of a memoir is a valuable but partial account of a career propelled by an old grievance
Books & arts
7 September 2017
Podcasts | Writer Sam Harris set out to discover why some voters like Donald Trump
Books & arts
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
Books & arts
1 September 2017
Books | Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well
Books & arts
31 August 2017
Television | As Four Corners has shown for decades, ABC investigative reporting will always have its critics
Books & arts
29 August 2017
Music | What makes a composer courageous?
Books & arts
24 August 2017
Books | An outstanding new biography traces the life of the man who dominated early federal politics
Books & arts
22 August 2017
Television | Annabel Crabb’s new series raises the question: is parliament living up to its house?
Books & arts
11 August 2017
Cinema | Two undemanding but shrewdly written films have hidden depths
Books & arts
7 August 2017
Photography | Daniel Berehulak meticulously records individuals caught up in history
Books & arts
7 August 2017
Books | Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat helps steer us through the claims and counter claims
Books & arts
31 July 2017
Three writers explore the mixed inheritances that helped fuel their work
Books & arts
31 July 2017
Books | Donald Horne is a breezy, argumentative and sometimes wrong-headed guide to postwar Australia
Books & arts
27 July 2017
Television | Winter is at its deepest, and Game of Thrones is on a new trajectory
Books & arts
27 July 2017
Rock music doesn’t just have classics in the sense of “golden oldies,” it has become a body of work
Books & arts
25 July 2017
Books | Jack Bowers reveals a remarkable wealth of Australian autobiography
Books & arts
19 July 2017
Books | Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of public life. It’s a highly ambitious goal, and would it necessarily be desirable?
Books & arts
11 July 2017
Television | Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale makes a mostly smooth transition to the screen
Books & arts
11 July 2017
Books | Edward Luce’s new book is just the beginning of an analysis of why liberal democracies are showing less capacity to respond to challenges
Books & arts
10 July 2017
Books | Former NSW Labor MP Carl Scully settles old scores in a vivid account of life in Macquarie Street
Books & arts
7 July 2017
Books | A former Morgan Stanley executive does a great job of exposing the flaws in mainstream economics. But his solution has problems of its own
Books & arts
3 July 2017
Popular music can be hard to separate from our recollections
Books & arts
3 July 2017
Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
Books & arts
20 June 2017
Books | Australia’s diplomatic capabilities are about to be tested again
Books & arts
19 June 2017
Books | Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe
Books & arts
15 June 2017
Music | The music’s not always the thing in the classical concert hall
Books & arts
14 June 2017
A rediscovered memoir and a multi-season French drama point to new ways of thinking about the second world war
Books & arts
30 May 2017
Books | In the titanic battle over Greece’s economic sovereignty, the local audience was the big casualty
Books & arts
25 May 2017
Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen