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
Books & arts
26 October 2018
Exhibition | A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Books & arts
24 October 2018
Books | Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
Books & arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & arts
18 October 2018
Books | Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
Books & arts
9 October 2018
Review essay | Democracies might be threatened, but authoritarian regimes have their own problems
Books & arts
8 October 2018
Television | Awkward questions are raised by A Very English Scandal and The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & arts
5 October 2018
Do Sydney’s theatre audiences yearn for the city of old?
Books & arts
5 October 2018
Music | The composer’s ninetieth year was effectively the midpoint of a long career
Books & arts
3 October 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Ladies in Black and Custody
Books & arts
1 October 2018
Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain