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Did the networks kill Homicide?
Jock Given
2 July 2014
Three police shows axed in just one year. For some observers, it seemed like much more than a coincidence, writes
Jock Given
Books & arts
What does it mean to photograph a street?
Richard Johnstone
27 June 2014
Where it once depicted the urban landscape, with or without human figures, street photography now captures people wherever they might be, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The surgeon as bad-tempered hero
Frank Bowden
20 June 2014
A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre
Books & arts
The spaces between the facts
Sylvia Lawson
20 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reports from the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Letting us in on her secret
Sara Dowse
12 June 2014
Books
| Best known for her undercover exposé
Nickel and Dimed
, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes
Sara Dowse
Books & arts
Look what they’ve done to my song
Andrew Ford
10 June 2014
Vocalists rewriting lyrics?
Andrew Ford
reaches for his Smith Corona
Books & arts
Spaceship of the imagination
Martin Bush
8 June 2014
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
is an important chapter in the evolution of how we learn about science, says
Martin Bush
. But it’s far from being the last word
Books & arts
Landscape of wounds
Jane Goodall
6 June 2014
Jane Goodall
reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Books & arts
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you
Emily Crawford
6 June 2014
Emily Crawford
reviews Glenn Greenwald’s account of the Snowden affair
Books & arts
This is now, and the battles continue
Sylvia Lawson
5 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson
on the Sydney Film Festival,
My Sweet Pepper Land
and
Ida
Books & arts
Labor’s history wars roll on
Stephen Mills
4 June 2014
Paralysed leader or bad advice?
Stephen Mills
reviews a new account of the Rudd–Gillard government and what it says about the party’s future
Books & arts
The lack of men, the lack of reinforcement, the lack of munitions
Mark Baker
3 June 2014
Phillip Schuler’s dispatches from Gallipoli captured the horror and the heroism for Australian readers, writes
Mark Baker
Books & arts
True believers
Sybil Nolan
29 May 2014
The
Saturday Paper
displays both the strengths and limitations of a primarily print-based publication, writes
Sybil Nolan
Books & arts
How it all went wrong
Andrew Dodd
28 May 2014
Philip Chubb’s insider account of the demise of Kevin Rudd’s climate scheme is essential reading, says
Andrew Dodd
Books & arts
A country big enough to disappear in
Annika Lems
27 May 2014
Katrin Koenning’s photographs form a landscape of intimate moments, writes
Annika Lems
Books & arts
Mortgaged to the machine
Jane Goodall
20 May 2014
What is the cost of feeding our national appetites?
Jane Goodall
watches ABC TV one Monday night
Books & arts
Never believe the trailer
Sylvia Lawson
15 May 2014
Sylvia Lawson
looks at National Film and Sound Archive cuts and reviews
The Grand Budapest Hotel
and
Healing
Books & arts
The composer as critic
Andrew Ford
14 May 2014
Taste and criticism don’t necessarily go together, argues
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
New Zealand as a refuge: half-myths and partial realities
David Pearson
8 May 2014
David Pearson
reviews a careful but challenging account of New Zealand’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
Books & arts
Heads or tails?
Jock Given & Marion Mccutcheon
7 May 2014
Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail,” ask
Jock Given
and
Marion McCutcheon
Books & arts
Game changers
Jock Given
6 May 2014
The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes
Jock Given
Books & arts
“Mag – Nificent!”
Jane Goodall
5 May 2014
Despite the overheated judging panel,
So You Think You Can Dance
deserves to live on, writes
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
Seduction or safety?
Matthew Ricketson
5 May 2014
Writer Joe McGinniss, who died in March, became a lightning rod for criticism of the way journalists deal with their sources, writes
Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
What about the rabbit?
Brian McFarlane
26 April 2014
In London,
Brian McFarlane
reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre
Books & arts
In the frontline of the war against boredom
Andrew Dodd
24 April 2014
Andrew Dodd
reviews Bob Carr’s absorbing and occasionally disturbing account of eighteen months as foreign minister
Books & arts
Is Iraq lost?
Matthew Gray
15 April 2014
Amid deepening divisions and political corruption, northern Iraq is one glimmer of hope in this unstable country, writes
Matthew Gray
Books & arts
How to be cool
Jane Goodall
15 April 2014
Jane Goodall
reviews
Janet King
and
Dead Point
Books & arts
Hard yards
Geoffrey Barker
10 April 2014
Florian Schui reveals the gap between the arguments for austerity and its real-world effects, writes
Geoffrey Barker
, and shows why the idea is still so attractive to so many
Books & arts
Amplified intimacy
Andrew Ford
7 April 2014
The microphone gave a new authenticity to pop vocals, writes
Andrew Ford
. Can it do the same for classical musicians?
Books & arts
Heads above water
Sylvia Lawson
3 April 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Hannah Arendt
,
The Missing Picture
,
Tracks
and
The Great Beauty
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