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
Books & arts
27 September 2018
Review essay | Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & arts
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Books & arts
14 September 2018
Books | Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
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