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
Books & arts
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
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
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
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
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
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
17 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Omar and Calvary
Books & arts
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
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
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
20 June 2014
A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre
Books & arts
20 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson reports from the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
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
10 June 2014
Vocalists rewriting lyrics? Andrew Ford reaches for his Smith Corona
Books & arts
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
6 June 2014
Jane Goodall reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Books & arts
6 June 2014
Emily Crawford reviews Glenn Greenwald’s account of the Snowden affair