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
Books & arts
24 January 2014
Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Kate Bagnall
Books & arts
22 January 2014
A new book encourages a different way of thinking about “news" and how it’s presented on television, writes Scott Bridges
Books & arts
22 January 2014
That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes Tom Hyland
Books & arts
17 January 2014
Whistleblowers fill a gap left by legislatures and the courts. How can they be protected without creating an accountability vacuum, asks Gabrielle Appleby
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming provide the inspiration for four new novels, reviewed here by Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Railway Man, Philomena and American Hustle
Books & arts
15 January 2014
To appreciate music, we need to sing and play and compose more of it, says Andrew Ford
Books & arts
14 January 2014
Melancholy and occasionally joyous, the story of two “squinty daughters” doesn’t quite justify the pictures, writes Darren Tofts
Books & arts
14 January 2014
Although they disagree on many points, Kofi Annan and Mark Mazower together illuminate the intricacies and rituals of international cooperation, writes Hilary Charlesworth
Books & arts
8 January 2014
Kay Saunders reviews Joan Beaumont’s account of Australia’s first world war
Books & arts
23 December 2013
Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions – that more memory equals more reconciliation – always meet the needs of people affected by widespread…
Books & arts
17 December 2013
As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces
Books & arts
12 December 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Fallout, The Darkside and After May
Books & arts
11 December 2013
There’s more to the pairing of the Beatles and the BBC Light Programme than might first meet the ear, says Andrew Ford
Books & arts
11 December 2013
Eleanor Hogan reviews a careful and often illuminating history of a northwestern Australian town
Books & arts
9 December 2013
Klaus Neumann reviews two books that put displaced people at the heart of contemporary history
Books & arts
5 December 2013
A new book shows how much Australia owes to canvas, writes Peter Spearritt
Books & arts
3 December 2013
In his desire to find the evil in Douglas Mawson, David Day overlooks the awkward tenderness and vulnerability that may lie at the heart of this flawed and driven man, writes…
Books & arts
2 December 2013
It’s not just sweatshop labour that keeps down the price of the stuff we buy, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
2 December 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Janet Lewis’s The Trial of Sören Qvist
Books & arts
29 November 2013
Sara Dowse reviews three new books about what it means to grow old
Books & arts
28 November 2013
How did an unelected campaign consultant come to exercise such influence over Labor’s 2013 campaign, asks Stephen Mills
Books & arts
15 November 2013
Three biographies reveal twentieth-century Australians in the thick of things, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
14 November 2013
Richard Johnstone explores the art of rephotography
Books & arts
13 November 2013
Wallpaper music? There’s more going on than you might think, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
13 November 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Ivan Sen’s masterly Mystery Road
Books & arts
7 November 2013
A new book unpacks the complex relationship between politics and football in Spain, writes Scott Ewing
Books & arts
6 November 2013
As a new book argues, innovation isn’t “soldered to science,” writes Michael Gilding