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
Books & arts
13 November 2015
Television | What kind of species are we? A night in front of the TV had some answers, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
12 November 2015
Books | Brett Evans follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street
Books & arts
10 November 2015
Books | The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes Paul Rodan. Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted
Books & arts
10 November 2015
Books | What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
5 November 2015
Books | An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes Brian McFarlane, and a new book…
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Much of the James Bond style comes down to the music
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Television | Jane Goodall watches The Beautiful Lie, Sherlock, Fargo and Homeland
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson
Books & arts
20 October 2015
Books | Even if the Asian century is peaceful that doesn’t mean it will be harmonious, writes Graeme Dobell