Books & arts
14 February 2013
Western policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on an outdated imperial playbook and a modern but mistaken belief in “surgical strikes,” writes David Stephens
Books & arts
14 February 2013
Eleanor Hogan reviews Warwick Thornton’s film installation, Mother Courage
Books & arts
13 February 2013
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall
Books & arts
13 February 2013
China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
12 February 2013
Chris Lydgate reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state…
Books & arts
7 February 2013
David Bowman considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands
Books & arts
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates
Books & arts
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Books & arts
2 January 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
28 December 2012
Andrew Ford on the life and work of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Books & arts
18 December 2012
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication, Glenn Nicholls looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
Books & arts
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Books & arts
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet
Books & arts
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
29 November 2012
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
17 November 2012
David Dorward reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects
Books & arts
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
26 October 2012
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven composed the first song cycle, Paul Kelly has unveiled two – an album and a performance at the Melbourne Festival – writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Does every Australian have a right to decent housing? Governments might say so, but they’re not doing much to make it happen, writes Peter Spearritt
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Something interesting happens when a piece of music goes out into the world, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
10 October 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews an intimate account of the life of Werner Pelz
Books & arts
9 October 2012
Has the market economy changed the way we love? Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at three new books dealing with the difficult intersection of love, sex and gender
Books & arts
8 October 2012
A sympathetic biography of Gough Whitlam also recognises its subject’s shortcomings
Books & arts
4 October 2012
A new book offers a tentative view of the largely uncharted terrain of public opinion in China, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Books | The political and the personal illuminate each other in James Button’s fine account of a year in Canberra
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
1 October 2012
The forty years since Australia established relations with China have been about a lot more than trade and defence, writes Antonia Finnane
Books & arts
6 September 2012
Sylvia Lawson on Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the French film-maker Chris Marker
Books & arts
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula