Books & arts
15 June 2017
Music | The music’s not always the thing in the classical concert hall
Books & arts
14 June 2017
A rediscovered memoir and a multi-season French drama point to new ways of thinking about the second world war
Books & arts
30 May 2017
Books | In the titanic battle over Greece’s economic sovereignty, the local audience was the big casualty
Books & arts
25 May 2017
Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen
Books & arts
18 May 2017
Exhibitions | An exhibition and an unveiling at the Australian War Memorial suggest a willingness to tell a deeper story about Australia’s frontier past
Books & arts
11 May 2017
Music | Is reading music elitist? Only if we stop teaching it
Books & arts
4 May 2017
An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt
Books & arts
27 April 2017
Photography | There’s not a selfie in sight at this year’s exhibition of National Photographic Portrait Prize finalists
Books & arts
20 April 2017
Television | A strong cast and narrative tension don’t necessarily add up to successful TV drama
Books & arts
18 April 2017
Books | Joni Mitchell’s decades aren’t done yet
Books & arts
18 April 2017
Books | A new history turns the conventional view on its head
Books & arts
10 April 2017
Music | A new generation of musicians has returned to folk music for inspiration
Books & arts
7 April 2017
Podcasts | This gripping sequel to Serial ventures into the southern badlands
Books & arts
3 April 2017
Photography | Bill Henson’s new exhibition deftly connects life and art
Books & arts
29 March 2017
Books | A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role
Books & arts
23 March 2017
Books | Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
Books & arts
21 March 2017
Books | Coinciding with the centenary of the Russian revolution, a compelling biography of the communist revolutionary plays down politics in favour of the personal
Books & arts
21 March 2017
Festivals | At Port Fairy, forty-plus years of tradition is on display
Books & arts
20 March 2017
Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times
Books & arts
14 March 2017
The Australian Dictionary of Biography is looking for help in filling the gaps where notable women should be
Books & arts
7 March 2017
Music | Headlong was meant to be a celebration of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s seventy-fifth birthday, but something seemed wrong
Books & arts
7 March 2017
Books | Anna Wickham made a distinctive contribution to the poetic experiments of the early twentieth century
Books & arts
1 March 2017
Television | Two very different political cultures, and some intriguing similarities, are the backdrops to Deutschland 83 and Billions
Books & arts
27 February 2017
Books | Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future
Books & arts
21 February 2017
Books | This account of the latest research on genes and society poses some of the right questions
Books & arts
16 February 2017
Should we borrow, steal – or even beg for – other cultures’ music?
Books & arts
8 February 2017
Cinema | Kenneth Lonergan’s latest film steers clear of sentimentality and easy comedy
Books & arts
30 January 2017
Books | Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy?
Books & arts
27 January 2017
Television | Released from behind his desk, Shaun Micallef proves to be a gifted explorer
Books & arts
26 January 2017
From the archive | Outside TV drama, “enhanced interrogation” fails the evidence test, writes Tom Hyland in this review first published in June 2016