Books & arts
2 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Immigrant and Message from Mungo
Books & arts
1 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
Books & arts
30 September 2014
With SBS viewers seeing 1960s America through the eyes of television and the ABC profiling four Australians who fled to London to join the decade’s ferment, the sixties…
Books & arts
30 September 2014
Away from the holiday playgrounds, Europe is running on low-paid labour, writes Angela Daly
Books & arts
24 September 2014
For journalists, the internet has actually lifted the ethical bar, writes Ken Haley
Books & arts
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Stuart Macintyre reviews a new biography of the titan of Australian newspaper proprietors, David Syme
Books & arts
11 September 2014
There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools
Books & arts
11 September 2014
The brash face of American post-minimalism? Andrew Ford considers the work of composer John Adams
Books & arts
11 September 2014
Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities
Books & arts
9 September 2014
Was the Gillard government more competent than its critics claimed? Frank Bongiorno reviews a new appraisal
Books & arts
5 September 2014
Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Five decades after viewers first encountered the Tardis, a new Doctor goes to air. But how much has really changed?
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong
Books & arts
20 August 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Once My Mother and A Most Wanted Man
Books & arts
14 August 2014
Angela Daly reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Books & arts
11 August 2014
Andrew Ford reflects on the man and his music
Books & arts
7 August 2014
Ben Hills offers a distinctive take on what went wrong for Fairfax, writes Ken Haley
Books & arts
5 August 2014
An Australian historian’s reappraisal of the origins of the first world war has provoked enormous interest in Germany, writes Andreas Wirsching. But the debate…
Books & arts
31 July 2014
Two books about the second world war show that humans are capable of lifting ourselves out of the mire
Books & arts
30 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Charlie’s Country
Books & arts
29 July 2014
The centenary of the first world war has begun, writes Jane Goodall, but Australia’s public broadcasters are still feeling their way
Books & arts
28 July 2014
Why do so many dementia researchers hold to a single theory so fervently? An unsettling new book throws light on entrenched beliefs, writes David Le Couteur
Books & arts
28 July 2014
New visa arrangements make it possible for international students to study and work in Australia for many years without necessarily being on a path to permanent residency, writes…
Books & arts
25 July 2014
A contest is under way, writes Graeme Dobell, but it will be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash
Books & arts
23 July 2014
Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently
Books & arts
23 July 2014
Can work be good for employees and employers? Helena Liu reviews a new book that wrestles with problems of workplace organisation, but doesn’t go quite far enough
Books & arts
17 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Omar and Calvary
Books & arts
6 July 2014
A lullaby is a parent’s work song, writes Andrew Ford, even if the taskmaster isn’t paying attention to the words