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
Books & arts
12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
Books & arts
6 October 2015
Music | Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
24 September 2015
Books | Bruce Duncan reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
Books & arts
23 September 2015
Television | Monday night’s ABC interviews showed how TV can be dangerous for politicians in unexpected ways, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
21 September 2015
Books | Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
18 September 2015
Books | Graeme Smith compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific
Books & arts
16 September 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Susan Johnson’s new novel, The Landing
Books & arts
15 September 2015
Theatre | A new production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia has urgent contemporary relevance, writes Stephen Mills in London
Books & arts
15 September 2015
Books | Kate Sullivan reviews a new history that challenges enduring myths about Australia’s relations with India
Books & arts
8 September 2015
Music | It’s no surprise that Messiaen was a prisoner of war when he first made use of birdsong, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
31 August 2015
Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
31 August 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin
Books & arts
24 August 2015
After taking up the camera at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a distinctive body of work
Books & arts
21 August 2015
Books | Colour, movement and analysis – Joel Deane delivers all three in his account of Labor’s late nineties comeback in Victoria, writes Ken Haley