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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?
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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
Books & arts
The best non-famous writer of his generation
Richard Johnstone
7 June 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
Books & arts
The femocrat factor
Sara Dowse
6 June 2013
Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government?
Sara Dowse
responds to Anne Summers’s
The Misogyny Factor
Books & arts
Desire denied
Glenn Nicholls
31 May 2013
Glenn Nicholls
reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
Books & arts
Sons and others
Sylvia Lawson
30 May 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Other Son
,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
and
Tabu
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I get by with a little help from my friends
Frank Bongiorno
23 May 2013
Frank Bongiorno
reviews Nick Cater’s
The Lucky Culture
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The middle-aged mobile
Ramon Lobato
17 May 2013
The mobile phone turned forty last month.
Ramon Lobato
reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
Books & arts
Benjamin Britten’s voice
Andrew Ford
16 May 2013
Much of Britten’s vocal music was written for Peter Pears — and that creates quite a challenge for modern interpreters
Books & arts
A welcome touch of modesty
Frank Bongiorno
9 May 2013
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes
Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
The go-between
Richard Johnstone
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Michael Jenkins’s
A House in Flanders
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The adaptive eye
Brian McFarlane
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
A forgotten twentieth-century masterwork
Iain Topliss
2 May 2013
Iain Topliss
visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama,
The Americans
, on show in Cologne
Books & arts
The limits of empire
Henry Reynolds
2 May 2013
Henry Reynolds
reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Books & arts
Such a bloody wonderful place
Sylvia Lawson
28 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s
No
Books & arts
A larger purpose, a larger sense of self
Janine Burke
28 April 2013
Janine Burke
on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
Books & arts
The rally-car driver and the one-time dentist
Duncan Hewitt
28 April 2013
Duncan Hewitt
reviews two witty new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Books & arts
Tricks of the trade
Brett Evans
18 April 2013
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says
Brett Evans
Books & arts
The innocence of Quentin Blake
Iain Topliss
7 April 2013
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
Books & arts
Feminism at the top table
Sara Dowse
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s
Lean In
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