Books & arts
12 March 2015
Books | Feel like a tourist in the land of finance? Tom Westland reviews John Lanchester’s visitor’s guide
Books & arts
10 March 2015
Music | Bass drum, crotales or tubular bells? Andrew Ford takes the best advice
Books & arts
4 March 2015
Books | A new account of a long war lays bare a series of miscalculations and misunderstandings, writes Tom Hyland
Books & arts
2 March 2015
Television | Jane Goodall reviews Fortitude and the second series of Broadchurch
Books & arts
27 February 2015
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Oscar-winning Citizenfour
Books & arts
23 February 2015
Photography | Unlike conventional war photography, aftermath photographs record consequences and allow us to explore the significance of what’s depicted, writes…
Books & arts
12 February 2015
Books | An American polemic about Chinese schools and OECD league tables exposes problems closer to home, argues Dean Ashenden
Books & arts
5 February 2015
A new Hercule Poirot novel is a reminder of the remarkable narrative skills of his creator
Books & arts
5 February 2015
Music | Andrew Ford is surprised to find room for interpretation in the music of the influential American composer
Books & arts
5 February 2015
Books | Matthew Gray reviews an illuminating account of a diverse nationality in search of self-determination
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3 February 2015
Books | Three men and a city in turmoil. Andrew Dodd reviews two new books about Sydney’s formative years
Books & arts
29 January 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things
Books & arts
28 January 2015
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Wild, Birdman and The Imitation Game
Books & arts
28 January 2015
Television | Science broadcaster Brian Cox navigates the line between two kinds of uncertainty, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
27 January 2015
Books | Steven Pinker’s latest book treads a fine line supremely well, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
22 January 2015
Books | We can’t take beaches for granted, writes Peter Spearritt. Two books show there’s a lot we could lose
Books & arts
9 January 2015
Books | We need to change, yet we resist. Sara Dowse reviews Vincent Deary’s compelling account of the psychological how and why
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Books | John Howard’s view of the Menzies years is partial in important respects, but he offers a valuable perspective on an important period
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Television | With a third season of Masters of Sex screening this year, Susan Lever charts the highs and lows of a TV drama inspired by real events
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Music | It’s not necessarily all that far from Joni Mitchell to the Eton Choirbook, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
20 December 2014
Books | Brian McFarlane finds a collection of essays by Tim Parks about books and writing well worth finishing
Books & arts
18 December 2014
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Particle Fever, The Dark Horse and Finding Vivian Maier, and farewells Margaret and David
Books & arts
16 December 2014
Monday night’s coverage from Martin Place is a reminder that live-to-air television is now an integral part of our emergency-response system, writes Inside …
Books & arts
10 December 2014
Andrew Ford’s pick of 2014 album releases
Books & arts
9 December 2014
Evan Osnos has written a remarkable book about the world’s most populous country, writes John Fitzgerald. But is it too distinctively an American view?
Books & arts
4 December 2014
What should we learn from US experiments, asks Dean Ashenden
Books & arts
4 December 2014
Two new books capture the diversity of Indonesia, writes Jacqui Baker. But does something get lost in the detail?
Books & arts
1 December 2014
The genesis of Donald Horne’s classic helps explain why it mattered
Books & arts
27 November 2014
Ken Haley finds much to like in this tribute to some of the greats of Australian journalism
Books & arts
26 November 2014
What if you ditched the whole marketing bonanza, asks Jane Goodall, and had nothing but the talent?