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Books & arts
Books & arts
Losing the war
Sylvia Lawson
12 September 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Gatekeepers
and
The Rocket
Books & arts
An American story told through Americans’ stories
Lesley Russell
11 September 2013
Lesley Russell
reviews a sweeping account of the United States in the twenty-first century by
New Yorker
writer George Packer
Books & arts
Elegy for the internet
Ramon Lobato
11 September 2013
Ramon Lobato
reviews two manifestos responding to the commercialisation of the web
Books & arts
Better leaders, or better leadership?
Helena Liu
10 September 2013
Filling the knowledge gap will only take us so far in dealing with Australia’s leadership problems, writes
Helena Liu
Books & arts
The mystery at the heart of the statistical survey
Scott Ewing
6 September 2013
Scott Ewing
reviews an indispensable guide to a world constantly being measured and surveyed
Books & arts
The adaptable country
Jock Given
6 September 2013
What can Australians do? They used to make radios, TV sets and Volkswagens, writes
Jock Given
. After 2016, they won’t even be making Falcons
Books & arts
The river in the sky
Brett Evans
5 September 2013
Kerry O’Brien’s interview with Clive James was about as good as it gets
Books & arts
Hearts, heads and pockets
Frank Bongiorno
2 September 2013
It’s time for harder thinking about Labor’s strengths and weaknesses, says
Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
Fairfax adrift: the view from Sydney
Sybil Nolan
30 August 2013
Readers and journalists are mostly missing from two recent books about the troubles at Fairfax, writes
Sybil Nolan
Books & arts
Holding the line
Kerry Brown
27 August 2013
Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes
Kerry Brown
Books & arts
The war that isn’t going to happen
Emily Crawford
25 August 2013
“Cyber war” has more in common with the war on obesity than the second world war, says Thomas Rid.
Emily Crawford
reviews his new book
Books & arts
Magnetism and magic
Sylvia Lawson
22 August 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making
Books & arts
Winner’s curse?
Anna Cristina Pertierra
22 August 2013
Despite the global financial crisis and high-profile scandals, money continues to flow at the highest end of the art auction market.
Anna Cristina Pertierra
looks at why
Books & arts
The sublime symmetry of double-entry bookkeeping
Richard Johnstone
18 August 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews B.S. Johnson’s
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
Books & arts
Neither everything nor nothing
Jane Goodall
15 August 2013
Does misogyny in politics reflect a deeper problem in the character of political debate, asks
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
Not shaving to Schoenberg
Andrew Ford
12 August 2013
Why do writers and visual artists seem less interested in living composers than composers are in them, wonders
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Episode by episode, season by season
Annabelle Sheehan
29 July 2013
Annabelle Sheehan
reviews a new account of the revolution in American TV that began on HBO
Books & arts
Between one geography and another
Sylvia Lawson
25 July 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Satellite Boy
,
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
and
The Great Gatsby
Books & arts
A table, a fruit bowl and one shrivelled apple
Richard Johnstone
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Mark McShane’s
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Books & arts
Works in progress
Andrew Ford
14 July 2013
Andrew Ford
on the long careers of composers Pierre Boulez and Henri Dutilleux
Books & arts
A difficult neighbourhood
John Besemeres
2 July 2013
A new account of Poland’s experience of the second world war helps fill a blank page in our historical consciousness, writes
John Besemeres
Books & arts
One screen at a time
Sylvia Lawson
27 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson
looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Military injustices
Fergal Davis
24 June 2013
Fergal Davis
reviews a vivid account of the human cost of the Guantanamo Bay trials
Books & arts
Torn in two parts
Bridget Griffen-Foley
21 June 2013
On the anniversary of its publication,
Bridget Griffen-Foley
reviews John Douglas Pringle’s self-deprecating account of a much-admired career
Books & arts
Virtual travels
Sylvia Lawson
20 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson
at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Looking at ourselves in Pompeii’s mirror
Frank Sear
18 June 2013
What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town?
Books & arts
Israel’s shifting moorings
Sara Dowse
13 June 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
Books & arts
Monique diMattina in New Orleans
Andrew Ford
12 June 2013
Andrew Ford
is a fan. But of whom, exactly?
Books & arts
Simpler, and better
Richard Denniss
12 June 2013
A new book by Barack Obama’s former “regulatory czar” shows how government can harness the benefits of behavioural economics, writes
Richard Denniss
Books & arts
Divining the jury
Jeremy Gans
11 June 2013
Juries are confused, but Australian courts don’t seem interested in understanding why
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