Books & arts
12 June 2014
Books | Best known for her undercover exposé Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes Sara Dowse
Books & arts
10 June 2014
Vocalists rewriting lyrics? Andrew Ford reaches for his Smith Corona
Books & arts
8 June 2014
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is an important chapter in the evolution of how we learn about science, says Martin Bush. But it’s far from being the last word
Books & arts
6 June 2014
Jane Goodall reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Books & arts
6 June 2014
Emily Crawford reviews Glenn Greenwald’s account of the Snowden affair
Books & arts
5 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson on the Sydney Film Festival, My Sweet Pepper Land and Ida
Books & arts
4 June 2014
Paralysed leader or bad advice? Stephen Mills reviews a new account of the Rudd–Gillard government and what it says about the party’s future
Books & arts
3 June 2014
Phillip Schuler’s dispatches from Gallipoli captured the horror and the heroism for Australian readers, writes Mark Baker
Books & arts
29 May 2014
The Saturday Paper displays both the strengths and limitations of a primarily print-based publication, writes Sybil Nolan
Books & arts
28 May 2014
Philip Chubb’s insider account of the demise of Kevin Rudd’s climate scheme is essential reading, says Andrew Dodd
Books & arts
27 May 2014
Katrin Koenning’s photographs form a landscape of intimate moments, writes Annika Lems
Books & arts
20 May 2014
What is the cost of feeding our national appetites? Jane Goodall watches ABC TV one Monday night
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”?
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?