Books & arts
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
10 September 2018
What made Aretha Franklin’s voice so compelling?
Books & arts
31 August 2018
Cinema | BlacKkKlansman is a testament to Lee’s mastery of rapidly shifting moods
Books & arts
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
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
21 August 2018
He might not have played Hurricane, but Bob Dylan was in fine form in Melbourne
Books & arts
20 August 2018
Music | What makes someone a “conservative” composer?
Books & arts
16 August 2018
Books | As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
Books & arts
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
9 August 2018
Television | With just one lapse, an exceptional cast has brought to life the anguished world of Edward St Aubyn
Books & arts
24 July 2018
Cinema | New films from Italy and Australia capture life on the periferia
Books & arts
16 July 2018
Cinema | Translating short works to the screen has its special challenges
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | Are the Big Four auditing companies facing their moment of truth?
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Books & arts
11 July 2018
Television | Behind the stereotypes, ABC TV’s Back Roads reveals a quiet rural revolution
Books & arts
10 July 2018
Music | Composer Sally Greenaway’s career has followed a remarkable trajectory
Books & arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & arts
6 July 2018
Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
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
26 June 2018
Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Books & arts
25 June 2018
Cinema | Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters reviewed
Books & arts
19 June 2018
Books | Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
Books & arts
12 June 2018
Music | The longer we listen to the music of Gavin Bryars and Brian Ferneyhough, the more we recognise
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