Books & arts
10 November 2015
Books | What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
5 November 2015
Books | An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes Brian McFarlane, and a new book…
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Much of the James Bond style comes down to the music
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27 October 2015
Television | Jane Goodall watches The Beautiful Lie, Sherlock, Fargo and Homeland
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27 October 2015
Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson
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20 October 2015
Books | Even if the Asian century is peaceful that doesn’t mean it will be harmonious, writes Graeme Dobell
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12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
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6 October 2015
Music | Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes Andrew Ford
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24 September 2015
Books | Bruce Duncan reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
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23 September 2015
Television | Monday night’s ABC interviews showed how TV can be dangerous for politicians in unexpected ways, writes Jane Goodall
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21 September 2015
Books | Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
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18 September 2015
Books | Graeme Smith compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific
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16 September 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Susan Johnson’s new novel, The Landing
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15 September 2015
Theatre | A new production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia has urgent contemporary relevance, writes Stephen Mills in London
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15 September 2015
Books | Kate Sullivan reviews a new history that challenges enduring myths about Australia’s relations with India
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8 September 2015
Music | It’s no surprise that Messiaen was a prisoner of war when he first made use of birdsong, writes Andrew Ford
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31 August 2015
Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall
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31 August 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin
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24 August 2015
After taking up the camera at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a distinctive body of work
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21 August 2015
Books | Colour, movement and analysis – Joel Deane delivers all three in his account of Labor’s late nineties comeback in Victoria, writes Ken Haley
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12 August 2015
Books | The best-ever account of an Australian director? Brian McFarlane reviews Jane Freebury’s survey of the director’s eclectic career
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11 August 2015
Books | Political philosopher Daniel A. Bell wants us to see China as a meritocracy-in-progress, writes John Fitzgerald. But is he really defending autocracy?
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31 July 2015
Television | Crime drama has been tipped upside down, writes Jane Goodall, as the BBC’s Line of Duty and Helen Piper’s The TV Detective reveal
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28 July 2015
Books | A diverse new collection of essays lays out part of the roadmap for realising the potential of native title, writes Michael Dillon. But the political…
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16 July 2015
… not to mention genuinely useful views and reviews. Emily van der Nagel assesses a new study of online comments
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13 July 2015
Books | Why are we angered by stories of Greek hairdressers retiring at fifty on public pensions, asks Jane Goodall, yet unmoved at the thought of bailed-out…
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13 July 2015
Music | Arm’s-length decision-making and peer review have gone hand-in-hand at the Australia Council, writes Andrew Ford. But they are not the same thing
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26 June 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Steven Carroll's Forever Young
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25 June 2015
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson looks back on this year’s Sydney Film Festival
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18 June 2015
Cinema | From the Sydney Film Festival Sylvia Lawson reviews The Pearl Button and The Look of Silence