Books & arts
17 March 2016
Adam Sisman’s biography of the prolific writer highlights the fine line between stories and lies, writes Peter Love
Books & arts
8 March 2016
Television | The West created its own narratives in Afghanistan, writes Jane Goodall. A compelling new series shows how reality failed to fit
Books & arts
2 March 2016
Music | The scope for choices makes music a special case among art forms, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
1 March 2016
Books | Meg Gurry reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace
Books & arts
29 February 2016
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson views Looking for Grace through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film
Books & arts
23 February 2016
Television | The Sunrise controversy raises fresh questions about TV current affairs, high-brow and low-brow, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
22 February 2016
Books | Crawford Productions was created in the early years of Australian TV, writes Susan Lever, and its influence is still alive in the industry
Books & arts
17 February 2016
Photography | The National Gallery of Australia’s current exhibition makes the case for the standout image, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
5 February 2016
Music | More music, fewer musical heroes? Andrew Ford on the paradox of plenty
Books & arts
3 February 2016
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Spotlight and The Big Short
Books & arts
2 February 2016
Television | Australia is back at work, and Utopia remains the best guide to what that can mean in practice, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
13 January 2016
Performance | David Bowie brought extraordinary inventiveness and highly developed technique to the auditorium, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
13 January 2016
Music | Not really an opera at all? Andrew Ford disagrees
Books & arts
12 January 2016
A multilayered portrait of divided Britain is trapped by its animating spirit
Books & arts
4 January 2016
Television | Jane Goodall witnesses Sherlock’s return to the world of fogs and hansom cabs
Books & arts
21 December 2015
Books | Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes Greg Lehman
Books & arts
17 December 2015
Television | News anchors are taking on a life of their own, writes Jane Goodall. But are we losing something in the process?
Books & arts
17 December 2015
Books | Graeme Dobell reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
Books & arts
15 December 2015
Cinema | Philip Noyce’s 1978 feature was an antidote to the tasteful costume dramas of the reviving Australian film industry, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
15 December 2015
Cinema | Suffragette seems doubly overdue, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
11 December 2015
Books | Paddy Manning’s biography of Malcolm Turnbull reveals a man in a blazing hurry, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
10 December 2015
Books | Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & arts
8 December 2015
How important to music is time and place?
Books & arts
1 December 2015
Books | Laura Tingle is right to say that government must become better at remembering, writes Paddy Gourley, but her argument has memory lapses of its own
Books & arts
1 December 2015
Books | The challenge for Australian cities is to introduce fluidity into a landscape often set in concrete, writes Jennifer Kent
Books & arts
28 November 2015
Television | Free-to-air TV can still shift public debate, writes Jane Goodall. But can it break free of its own conventions?
Books & arts
23 November 2015
Books | Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes Susan Lever. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena
Books & arts
18 November 2015
A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure
Books & arts
17 November 2015
Photography | Tony Mott didn’t so much fall into photography as throw himself into it, writes Richard Johnstone