Books & arts
15 May 2014
Sylvia Lawson looks at National Film and Sound Archive cuts and reviews The Grand Budapest Hotel and Healing
Books & arts
14 May 2014
Taste and criticism don’t necessarily go together, argues Andrew Ford
Books & arts
8 May 2014
David Pearson reviews a careful but challenging account of New Zealand’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
Books & arts
7 May 2014
Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail,” ask Jock Given and Marion McCutcheon
Books & arts
6 May 2014
The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes Jock Given
Books & arts
5 May 2014
Despite the overheated judging panel, So You Think You Can Dance deserves to live on, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
5 May 2014
Writer Joe McGinniss, who died in March, became a lightning rod for criticism of the way journalists deal with their sources, writes Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
26 April 2014
In London, Brian McFarlane reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre
Books & arts
24 April 2014
Andrew Dodd reviews Bob Carr’s absorbing and occasionally disturbing account of eighteen months as foreign minister
Books & arts
15 April 2014
Amid deepening divisions and political corruption, northern Iraq is one glimmer of hope in this unstable country, writes Matthew Gray
Books & arts
15 April 2014
Jane Goodall reviews Janet King and Dead Point
Books & arts
10 April 2014
Florian Schui reveals the gap between the arguments for austerity and its real-world effects, writes Geoffrey Barker, and shows why the idea is still so attractive to so many
Books & arts
7 April 2014
The microphone gave a new authenticity to pop vocals, writes Andrew Ford. Can it do the same for classical musicians?
Books & arts
3 April 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Hannah Arendt, The Missing Picture, Tracks and The Great Beauty
Books & arts
1 April 2014
In Culture and the Death of God Terry Eagleton explores the persistence of religious ideas in political life and culture
Books & arts
28 March 2014
Not only is he an anti-Chomskyan, Philip Lieberman is also an enemy of evolutionary biology and pop neuroscience, writes Ben Eltham
Books & arts
19 March 2014
Lila Abu-Lughod set out to discover “why the emerging Western common sense about Muslim women did not capture what I knew from experience and from reading history.”…
Books & arts
18 March 2014
The continuing popularity of tattoos is a paradox, writes Richard Johnstone. Which other fashion refuses to acknowledge a use-by date?
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Past and Utopia
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
5 March 2014
A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes Dean Ashenden
Books & arts
5 March 2014
The life stories of four mining magnates illuminate where Australia’s economy is headed, writes Michael Gilding. The political and social effects could be profound
Books & arts
4 March 2014
From Karlheinz Stockhausen to Lalo Schifrin, Olivier Messiaen taught his students how to be themselves
Books & arts
4 March 2014
Susan Powell traces the dramatically changing landscape of adoption in Australia
Books & arts
25 February 2014
In her latest book political philosopher Martha Nussbaum looks at what drives people apart and how we can bridge those divides, writes Janna Thompson
Books & arts
24 February 2014
We need our doctors to feel, writes Frank Bowden, but not so much that they stop thinking
Books & arts
21 February 2014
Politics is hard and democracy is messy. Brett Evans reviews two new books that help explain why it doesn’t all end in disaster
Books & arts
20 February 2014
Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson reviews an account of the genesis and chequered career of Labor’s national health insurance scheme
Books & arts
11 February 2014
A new collection of letters traces the life of the “outrageously gifted” composer of West Side Story, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
6 February 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis