Books & arts
28 October 2014
Cultural policy and trade policy are pulling in different directions, writes Nick Herd. Ten’s Offspring could be one casualty
Books & arts
27 October 2014
Martin Wolf offers the best explanation of how the financial crisis came about and what it means for the future, writes Michael Gill
Books & arts
27 October 2014
Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett
Books & arts
22 October 2014
Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
20 October 2014
Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
15 October 2014
Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Books & arts
13 October 2014
Andrew Ford considers breaking the habit of a lifetime
Books & arts
2 October 2014
Brian McFarlane revisits Chekhov’s remarkable play, on screen and away from Russia
Books & arts
2 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Immigrant and Message from Mungo
Books & arts
1 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
Books & arts
30 September 2014
It’s the decade that doesn’t seem willing to stay in the past
Books & arts
30 September 2014
Away from the holiday playgrounds, Europe is running on low-paid labour, writes Angela Daly
Books & arts
24 September 2014
For journalists, the internet has actually lifted the ethical bar, writes Ken Haley
Books & arts
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Stuart Macintyre reviews a new biography of the titan of Australian newspaper proprietors, David Syme
Books & arts
11 September 2014
There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools
Books & arts
11 September 2014
The brash face of American post-minimalism? Andrew Ford considers the work of composer John Adams
Books & arts
11 September 2014
Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities
Books & arts
9 September 2014
Was the Gillard government more competent than its critics claimed? Frank Bongiorno reviews a new appraisal
Books & arts
5 September 2014
Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Five decades after viewers first encountered the Tardis, a new Doctor goes to air. But how much has really changed?
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong
Books & arts
20 August 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Once My Mother and A Most Wanted Man
Books & arts
14 August 2014
Angela Daly reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Books & arts
11 August 2014
Andrew Ford reflects on the man and his music
Books & arts
7 August 2014
Ben Hills offers a distinctive take on what went wrong for Fairfax, writes Ken Haley
Books & arts
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
31 July 2014
Two books about the second world war show that humans are capable of lifting ourselves out of the mire
Books & arts
30 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Charlie’s Country