Books & arts
6 June 2018
Television | The ensemble-driven Mystery Road deserves to be a hit for the ABC
Books & arts
6 June 2018
Books | Shaun Crowe reviews David McKnight’s Populism Now!
Books & arts
5 June 2018
Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir
Books & arts
30 May 2018
Extract | Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game
Books & arts
23 May 2018
Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Books & arts
22 May 2018
Books | Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)?
Books & arts
18 May 2018
Television | In a fraught political environment, The Drum and The Project offer distinctive perspectives
Books & arts
16 May 2018
Books | A former Portugese politician provides a unique perspective on the landmass that stretches from France to China
Books & arts
8 May 2018
Music | Peggy Seeger is a remarkable talent in her own right
Books & arts
5 May 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Breath and Loveless
Books & arts
1 May 2018
Television | Two bold genre-busting crime series meet with mixed success
Books & arts
1 May 2018
Cinema | As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
Books & arts
27 April 2018
Books | You are how you sleep, according to a persuasive new account of the science of not being awake
Books & arts
19 April 2018
Television | Behind the algorithms, is this just an old-fashioned propaganda outfit with a thick veneer of spin?
Books & arts
11 April 2018
Books | The former academic and the pugnacious ex-soldier both tell compelling stories about life before politics
Books & arts
9 April 2018
Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Books & arts
9 April 2018
The memoirs of one of Australia’s best-known judges raise important questions about sentencing, politics and the media
Books & arts
7 April 2018
Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany
Books & arts
4 April 2018
Books | The quest to quantify the performance of our most important institutions can backfire, but what other choice do we have?
Books & arts
30 March 2018
Television | The crimes might stretch plausibility, but something keeps us watching this prime example of Nordic Noir
Books & arts
28 March 2018
Cinema | The British Film Festival has been an unexpected hit with Australian audiences
Books & arts
27 March 2018
Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s?
Books & arts
27 March 2018
Books | Australia’s experimental domestic architecture of the 1950s and 60s still challenges mainstream design
Books & arts
15 March 2018
Books | Is China a different kind of democracy, or simply a self-preserving one-party state?
Books & arts
12 March 2018
Books | Following in the footsteps of Nobel prize-winner Elinor Ostrom, two new books make the argument for public property and the public good
Books & arts
8 March 2018
Books | A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy
Books & arts
8 March 2018
Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”?
Books & arts
7 March 2018
Cinema | Of this year’s Oscar contenders, Phantom Thread seems most likely to endure
Books & arts
7 March 2018
Despite her early death, the French composer left a remarkable legacy
Books & arts
28 February 2018
The story of how a cure for scurvy was found, then lost, then found again offers a vital lesson for policy-makers