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
Books & arts
19 February 2018
Our TV critic reviews the ABC’s two-part documentary Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader, first screened in February 2018
Books & arts
15 February 2018
Review essay | As the regional balance continues to shift, resolving the tension between history and geography is becoming more urgent for Australia
Books & arts
13 February 2018
Music | Pianist Andrea Keller’s new work might or might not be jazz, but it’s certainly poetic
Books & arts
11 February 2018
Books | Centre-left parties are struggling everywhere. Can they adapt?
Books & arts
2 February 2018
Books | This new edition of John Rickard’s pathbreaking book is a reminder that he anticipated many of the concerns of subsequent generations of historians
Books & arts
28 January 2018
The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes
Books & arts
28 January 2018
Books | A former communist and a former Catholic activist combine forces to cast new light on the organisation that helped fuel the Labor split
Books & arts
24 January 2018
Books | A senior vice-chancellor argues for big changes in tertiary education — but not in universities
Books & arts
22 January 2018
Books | Is the US economy suffering from an overriding malady — and could Australia become infected?
Books & arts
19 January 2018
Cinema | Archetypes are challenged in Warwick Thornton’s latest film
Books & arts
16 January 2018
Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book
Books & arts
16 January 2018
Books | What can the 1970s and 80s tell us about where we are today?
Books & arts
15 January 2018
Television | Our reviewer is gripped by SBS’s venture into slow TV
Books & arts
8 January 2018
Television | As the debate over violence in Melbourne intensifies, Romper Stomper ups the ante so high it loses touch with reality
Books & arts
5 January 2018
Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership
Books & arts
20 December 2017
Television | The year’s viewing had an appropriate air of unreality
Books & arts
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers