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Never believe the trailer
Sylvia Lawson
15 May 2014
Sylvia Lawson
looks at National Film and Sound Archive cuts and reviews
The Grand Budapest Hotel
and
Healing
Books & arts
The composer as critic
Andrew Ford
14 May 2014
Taste and criticism don’t necessarily go together, argues
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
New Zealand as a refuge: half-myths and partial realities
David Pearson
8 May 2014
David Pearson
reviews a careful but challenging account of New Zealand’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
Books & arts
Heads or tails?
Jock Given & Marion Mccutcheon
7 May 2014
Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail,” ask
Jock Given
and
Marion McCutcheon
Books & arts
Game changers
Jock Given
6 May 2014
The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes
Jock Given
Books & arts
“Mag – Nificent!”
Jane Goodall
5 May 2014
Despite the overheated judging panel,
So You Think You Can Dance
deserves to live on, writes
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
Seduction or safety?
Matthew Ricketson
5 May 2014
Writer Joe McGinniss, who died in March, became a lightning rod for criticism of the way journalists deal with their sources, writes
Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
What about the rabbit?
Brian McFarlane
26 April 2014
In London,
Brian McFarlane
reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre
Books & arts
In the frontline of the war against boredom
Andrew Dodd
24 April 2014
Andrew Dodd
reviews Bob Carr’s absorbing and occasionally disturbing account of eighteen months as foreign minister
Books & arts
Is Iraq lost?
Matthew Gray
15 April 2014
Amid deepening divisions and political corruption, northern Iraq is one glimmer of hope in this unstable country, writes
Matthew Gray
Books & arts
How to be cool
Jane Goodall
15 April 2014
Jane Goodall
reviews
Janet King
and
Dead Point
Books & arts
Hard yards
Geoffrey Barker
10 April 2014
Florian Schui reveals the gap between the arguments for austerity and its real-world effects, writes
Geoffrey Barker
, and shows why the idea is still so attractive to so many
Books & arts
Amplified intimacy
Andrew Ford
7 April 2014
The microphone gave a new authenticity to pop vocals, writes
Andrew Ford
. Can it do the same for classical musicians?
Books & arts
Heads above water
Sylvia Lawson
3 April 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Hannah Arendt
,
The Missing Picture
,
Tracks
and
The Great Beauty
Books & arts
The God of big things
Janna Thompson
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
Unpredictable to whom, and in what way?
Ben Eltham
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
The social life of Muslim women’s rights
Shakira Hussein
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
Moving pictures
Richard Johnstone
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
Not so much the tale as its telling
Sylvia Lawson
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Past
and
Utopia
Books & arts
An unknown, an interloper, a feminist
Sybil Nolan
5 March 2014
Books
| Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
A “self-fulfilling, rolling disaster”?
Dean Ashenden
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
Digging into the resource curse
Michael Gilding
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
Messiaen’s children
Andrew Ford
4 March 2014
From Karlheinz Stockhausen to Lalo Schifrin, Olivier Messiaen taught his students how to be themselves
Books & arts
Rights and desires
Susan Powell
4 March 2014
Susan Powell
traces the dramatically changing landscape of adoption in Australia
Books & arts
Between pernicious nationalism and watery liberalism
Janna Thompson
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
What it feels like to be a doctor
Frank Bowden
24 February 2014
We need our doctors to
feel
, writes
Frank Bowden
, but not so much that they stop thinking
Books & arts
Red in tooth and claw
Brett Evans
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
A short look at Medicare’s long history
Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
20 February 2014
Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
reviews an account of the genesis and chequered career of Labor’s national health insurance scheme
Books & arts
The land of living dangerously
Sara Dowse
13 February 2014
Would bending be the bravest option for Israel, asks
Sara Dowse
Books & arts
Too much talent
Andrew Ford
11 February 2014
A new collection of letters traces the life of the “outrageously gifted” composer of
West Side Story
, writes
Andrew Ford
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