Books & arts
13 June 2013
Sara Dowse reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
Books & arts
12 June 2013
Andrew Ford is a fan. But of whom, exactly?
Books & arts
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
11 June 2013
Juries are confused, but Australian courts don’t seem interested in understanding why
Books & arts
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
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
31 May 2013
Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
Books & arts
30 May 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Other Son, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabu
Books & arts
23 May 2013
Frank Bongiorno reviews Nick Cater’s The Lucky Culture
Books & arts
17 May 2013
The mobile phone turned forty last month. Ramon Lobato reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
Books & arts
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
9 May 2013
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
Books & arts
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
2 May 2013
Iain Topliss visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama, The Americans, on show in Cologne
Books & arts
2 May 2013
Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Books & arts
28 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No
Books & arts
28 April 2013
Janine Burke on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
Books & arts
28 April 2013
Duncan Hewitt reviews two witty new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Books & arts
18 April 2013
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says Brett Evans
Books & arts
7 April 2013
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
Books & arts
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
Books & arts
4 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Rust and Bone and looks at the continuing controversy over Zero Dark Thirty
Books & arts
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic
Books & arts
19 March 2013
Brett Evans looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
Books & arts
19 March 2013
Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
Books & arts
13 March 2013
A composer doesn’t often see people in the act of listening to music, writes Andrew Ford. WOMADelaide was an opportunity to take a look
Books & arts
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist
Books & arts
27 February 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
26 February 2013
Peter Spearritt reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia