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Books & arts
Books & arts
From the ashes
Tom Griffiths
12 October 2011
Books
| Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & arts
Rising to the operatic
Sylvia Lawson
5 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Eye of the Storm
and enters a controversy about
Red Dog
Books & arts
Every good boy deserves favour
Andrew Ford
5 October 2011
Musical notation is both more and less precise than writing and reading words, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Sensational fiction in Marvellous Melbourne
Kylie Mirmohamadi & Susan K. Martin
5 October 2011
Susan K. Martin
and
Kylie Mirmohamadi
look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Books & arts
Anthropology and remote Aboriginal lives
Diane Austin-Broos
5 October 2011
Diane Austin-Broos
responds to Tim Rowse's review of her book,
A Different Inequality
Books & arts
Not quite nailing a “failed debate”
Tim Rowse
3 October 2011
Tim Rowse
reviews an account of the debate about Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Books & arts
Acting your age
Richard Johnstone
3 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The good, the bad, the ugly
Ramon Lobato
28 September 2011
Robert Manne’s new anti-Murdoch polemic paints a familiar picture of bias and bullying at the
Australian
, writes
Ramon Lobato
. So what else is new?
Books & arts
What will it be like without them?
Sylvia Lawson
20 September 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Page One
and
Pina
Books & arts
Colonialism’s prequel
Lorenzo Veracini
16 September 2011
Julia Clancy-Smith’s
Mediterraneans
looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes
Lorenzo Veracini
Books & arts
Letters from home
Judith Brett
13 September 2011
Judith Brett
reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Books & arts
Fresh ears
Andrew Ford
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Free electrons
Daniel Nethery
7 September 2011
An optimistic account of the Tunisian revolution challenges stereotypes
Books & arts
What is the voter voting for?
Norman Abjorensen
2 September 2011
Norman Abjorensen
looks into the mind of the Australian voter
Books & arts
Crisis management
Klaus Neumann
26 August 2011
Perhaps ten million displaced people live in camps, often for years or even decades, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
Started low and finished high
Richard Johnstone
24 August 2011
Books
|
Richard Johnstone
considers the lobster
Books & arts
Caught again by Catch-22
Brian McFarlane
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary
Brian McFarlane
rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
Books & arts
The madness industry
Brett Evans
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida.
Brett Evans
reviews his new book
Books & arts
Photographic moments, constructed and decisive
Terry Lane
17 August 2011
Terry Lane
reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
The right thing
Ben Goldsmith
17 August 2011
The screening of the ABC’s ambitious courtroom drama,
Crownies
, coincides with a renewed debate about Australian content.
Ben Goldsmith
has been watching them both
Books & arts
Dangerous pleasure
Sylvia Lawson
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Senna
,
Jane Eyre
and
The Illusionist
Books & arts
Something in the water
Linda Jaivin
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin
reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel
The Fat Years
, now available in English
Books & arts
The Islanders: Torres Strait comes to Brisbane
Jeremy Beckett
11 August 2011
Jeremy Beckett
discusses Brisbane’s celebration of Torres Strait Islander culture, which launched in early July and continues until October
Books & arts
Looking at music
Andrew Ford
10 August 2011
Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
“A limit to this right of overlooking”
Jock Given
29 July 2011
Australians are likely to get a statutory right of privacy. Though it needs careful crafting, it’s high time
Books & arts
You’ve got to have friends
Anna Cristina Pertierra
29 July 2011
Anna Cristina Pertierra
looks at what social media tells us about communication
Books & arts
Things that cinema can do
Sylvia Lawson
28 July 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Terrence Malick’s
The Tree of Life
and Kelly Reichardt’s
Meek’s Cutoff
Books & arts
How outrage gripped Gandhi’s recalcitrant nation
Thomas Weber
27 July 2011
Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Mahatma Gandhi caused a storm in India even before it was published there.
Thomas Weber
looks at the book and its critics
Books & arts
Right time, wrong inquiry?
Peter Browne
21 July 2011
Curbing News Limited's reach wouldn’t be simple, writes
Peter Browne
, but there are other ways to encourage diversity
Books & arts
Beyond the easy life of gods
Annika Lems
12 July 2011
Annika Lems
reviews anthropologist Michael Jackson’s illuminating account of his return to the village of Firawa in Sierra Leone
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