Books & arts
1 April 2014
In Culture and the Death of God Terry Eagleton explores the persistence of religious ideas in political life and culture
Books & arts
28 March 2014
Not only is he an anti-Chomskyan, Philip Lieberman is also an enemy of evolutionary biology and pop neuroscience, writes Ben Eltham
Books & arts
19 March 2014
Lila Abu-Lughod set out to discover “why the emerging Western common sense about Muslim women did not capture what I knew from experience and from reading history.”…
Books & arts
18 March 2014
The continuing popularity of tattoos is a paradox, writes Richard Johnstone. Which other fashion refuses to acknowledge a use-by date?
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Past and Utopia
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
5 March 2014
A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes Dean Ashenden
Books & arts
5 March 2014
The life stories of four mining magnates illuminate where Australia’s economy is headed, writes Michael Gilding. The political and social effects could be profound
Books & arts
4 March 2014
From Karlheinz Stockhausen to Lalo Schifrin, Olivier Messiaen taught his students how to be themselves
Books & arts
4 March 2014
Susan Powell traces the dramatically changing landscape of adoption in Australia
Books & arts
25 February 2014
In her latest book political philosopher Martha Nussbaum looks at what drives people apart and how we can bridge those divides, writes Janna Thompson
Books & arts
24 February 2014
We need our doctors to feel, writes Frank Bowden, but not so much that they stop thinking
Books & arts
21 February 2014
Politics is hard and democracy is messy. Brett Evans reviews two new books that help explain why it doesn’t all end in disaster
Books & arts
20 February 2014
Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson reviews an account of the genesis and chequered career of Labor’s national health insurance scheme
Books & arts
13 February 2014
Would bending be the bravest option for Israel, asks Sara Dowse
Books & arts
11 February 2014
A new collection of letters traces the life of the “outrageously gifted” composer of West Side Story, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
6 February 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis
Books & arts
24 January 2014
Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Kate Bagnall
Books & arts
22 January 2014
A new book encourages a different way of thinking about “news" and how it’s presented on television, writes Scott Bridges
Books & arts
22 January 2014
That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes Tom Hyland
Books & arts
17 January 2014
Whistleblowers fill a gap left by legislatures and the courts. How can they be protected without creating an accountability vacuum, asks Gabrielle Appleby
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming provide the inspiration for four new novels, reviewed here by Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Railway Man, Philomena and American Hustle
Books & arts
15 January 2014
To appreciate music, we need to sing and play and compose more of it, says Andrew Ford
Books & arts
14 January 2014
Melancholy and occasionally joyous, the story of two “squinty daughters” doesn’t quite justify the pictures, writes Darren Tofts
Books & arts
14 January 2014
Although they disagree on many points, Kofi Annan and Mark Mazower together illuminate the intricacies and rituals of international cooperation, writes Hilary Charlesworth
Books & arts
8 January 2014
Kay Saunders reviews Joan Beaumont’s account of Australia’s first world war
Books & arts
23 December 2013
Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions – that more memory equals more reconciliation – always meet the needs of people affected by widespread…
Books & arts
17 December 2013
As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces
Books & arts
12 December 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Fallout, The Darkside and After May