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Books & arts
Books & arts
More necessary than life
Richard Johnstone
21 October 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Ella K. Maillart’s account of a remarkable prewar journey across Europe and into Asia
Books & arts
The ethical case for guest workers
Peter Mares
21 October 2013
A new book argues that it is morally defensible to restrict migrants’ rights in order to give them access to the benefits of increased migration, writes
Peter Mares
Books & arts
Gloriously improbable India
Robin Jeffrey
18 October 2013
Robin Jeffrey
reviews a richly researched wake-up call from two distinguished India-watchers
Books & arts
Big world
Sylvia Lawson
17 October 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Turning
,
Gravity
,
Blue Jasmine
,
Stories We Tell
and
The Act of Killing
Books & arts
What the composer owes the writer
Andrew Ford
10 October 2013
Andrew Ford
on the challenge of combining words and music
Books & arts
“Unfounded attack on Dad and Dave comedies!”
Julieanne Lamond
9 October 2013
By the time Ken G. Hall filmed
Dad Rudd M.P.
, his film-making had come to reflect international popular culture as well as Australian traditions, writes
Julieanne Lamond
Books & arts
Talking about war
R.J.B. Bosworth
4 October 2013
Wrestling with evil might have less value than exploring the interplay of humanity’s crimes, follies and tragedies, writes
R.J.B. Bosworth
Books & arts
The man who volunteered for Auschwitz
John Besemeres
3 October 2013
John Besemeres
reviews a remarkable book and recounts the career of its equally remarkable author
Books & arts
If content is king then distribution is King Kong
Annabelle Sheehan
2 October 2013
The film and TV landscape has changed forever.
Annabelle Sheehan
reviews a timely guidebook
Books & arts
A premonition of bloodshed
Richard Johnstone
25 September 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Muriel Spark’s
The Mandelbaum Gate
Books & arts
The composer who hasn’t let go
Andrew Ford
15 September 2013
We’re still living in Wagner’s world, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Caught on a fast-moving train
Scott Bridges
13 September 2013
Journalism is increasingly becoming a matter of selecting from an avalanche of material, writes
Scott Bridges
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
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