Books & arts
Fighting on all fronts
Norman Abjorensen
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
Books & arts
Remembered intimacies
Julie Rigg
26 November 2018
Cinema | Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
Books & arts
Saving Wagner from himself
Janna Thompson
23 November 2018
Opera Australia’s production deftly undercut the dark side of one of the composer’s best-known works
Books & arts
Fever in the blood
Graeme Dobell
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Books & arts
Curiouser and curiouser: the strange world of the global super-rich
Carmela Chivers
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & arts
Archive of awfulness
Stephen Mills
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
Welcome to my anxiety
Andrew Ford
2 November 2018
Music | The composition was in on time, but was it any good?
Books & arts
Out of the danger zone
Julie Rigg
2 November 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Backtrack Boys and Beautiful Boy
Books & arts
The true story of Billy McMahon
David Solomon
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & arts
Asking the right questions
Jane Goodall
26 October 2018
Television | Doctor Who meets Broadchurch in its latest incarnation
Books & arts
An exhibition extraordinary in its ordinariness
Annemarie McLaren
26 October 2018
Exhibition | A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Books & arts
Messing about with boats and billionaires
Robin Jeffrey
24 October 2018
Books | Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
Books & arts
University challenge
Nick Haslam
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & arts
On the brink
Jane Goodall
18 October 2018
Books | Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
Books & arts
Can democracy survive?
Shaun Crowe
9 October 2018
Review essay | Democracies might be threatened, but authoritarian regimes have their own problems
Books & arts
Scandal as tragedy
Jane Goodall
8 October 2018
Television | Awkward questions are raised by A Very English Scandal and The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & arts
Going back to where we came from
Susan Lever
5 October 2018
Do Sydney’s theatre audiences yearn for the city of old?
Books & arts
The prolific old age of Elliott Carter
Andrew Ford
5 October 2018
Music | The composer’s ninetieth year was effectively the midpoint of a long career
Books & arts
The light and the dark
Julie Rigg
3 October 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Ladies in Black and Custody
Books & arts
Globe-trotting possum-stirrers
Sylvia Martin
1 October 2018
Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain
Books & arts
Will a robot take your job?
John Quiggin
27 September 2018
Review essay | Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & arts
Writers over America
Susan Lever
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Books & arts
On listening
Sara Dowse
14 September 2018
Books | Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
Books & arts
A banker’s quest for legitimacy
Selwyn Cornish
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
Trusting Aretha
Andrew Ford
10 September 2018
What made Aretha Franklin’s voice so compelling?
Books & arts
How Spike does history
Julie Rigg
31 August 2018
Cinema | BlacKkKlansman is a testament to Lee’s mastery of rapidly shifting moods
Books & arts
Sound and fury, light and shade
Jane Goodall
28 August 2018
Television | With just days to gather its material, Four Corners found a way to explore the human impact of power
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Where I came in
Kerry Ryan
21 August 2018
He might not have played Hurricane, but Bob Dylan was in fine form in Melbourne
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