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Books & arts
Books & arts
The American dream, in 3D
Angela Daly
14 August 2014
Angela Daly
reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Books & arts
Peter Sculthorpe, a composer in Australia
Andrew Ford
11 August 2014
Andrew Ford
reflects on the man and his music
Books & arts
Whom the gods wish to destroy…
Ken Haley
7 August 2014
Ben Hills offers a distinctive take on what went wrong for Fairfax, writes
Ken Haley
Books & arts
Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers and the Germans. A misunderstanding?
Andreas Wirsching
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
Remarkable acts of courage
Sara Dowse
31 July 2014
Two books about the second world war show that humans are capable of lifting ourselves out of the mire
Books & arts
His country, and ours
Sylvia Lawson
30 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Charlie’s Country
Books & arts
Franz Ferdinand moments
Jane Goodall
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
Alzheimer unease
David Le Couteur
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
Almost migrants
Peter Mares
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
China wakes, Asia quakes, Australia shivers
Graeme Dobell
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
Different diagnoses, different cures
Tom Westland
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
Virtuous cycling on the job
Helena Liu
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
Too much talked of sin, too little of virtue
Sylvia Lawson
17 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Omar
and
Calvary
Books & arts
When the bough breaks
Andrew Ford
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
Books & arts
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
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