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Books & arts A table, a fruit bowl and one shrivelled apple Richard Johnstone 14 July 2013 Richard Johnstone reviews Mark McShane’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon Books & arts Works in progress Andrew Ford 14 July 2013 Andrew Ford on the long careers of composers Pierre Boulez and Henri Dutilleux Books & arts A difficult neighbourhood John Besemeres 2 July 2013 A new account of Poland’s experience of the second world war helps fill a blank page in our historical consciousness, writes John Besemeres Books & arts One screen at a time Sylvia Lawson 27 June 2013 Sylvia Lawson looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival

Books & arts Simpler, and better Richard Denniss 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 Divining the jury Jeremy Gans 11 June 2013 Juries are confused, but Australian courts don’t seem interested in understanding why Books & arts The best non-famous writer of his generation Richard Johnstone 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 The femocrat factor Sara Dowse 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 The go-between Richard Johnstone 9 May 2013 Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders Books & arts The adaptive eye Brian McFarlane 2 May 2013 The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane Books & arts A forgotten twentieth-century masterwork Iain Topliss 2 May 2013 Iain Topliss visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama, The Americans, on show in Cologne Books & arts The limits of empire Henry Reynolds 2 May 2013 Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents