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Books & arts
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Small armies
Sylvia Lawson
28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Getting personal
Andrew Ford
25 June 2012
Andrew Ford
forges a relationship with his new piano
Books & arts
Eyes wide open
Jamie Hanson
25 June 2012
Lyndon Johnson took on the frustrating role of vice-president to shake off the taint of Southern racism and conservatism. And the rest is history
Books & arts
A networker’s manifesto for open research
Michael Gilding
24 June 2012
Michael Gilding
reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause
Books & arts
No such thing as a sold-out show
Jock Given
14 June 2012
Jock Given
gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & arts
Rough passages
Sylvia Lawson
14 June 2012
Sylvia Lawson
at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Us, writ large
Norman Abjorensen
12 June 2012
Norman Abjorensen
reviews Mungo MacCallum’s
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers
Books & arts
Genetic injustices
Jeremy Gans
7 June 2012
DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 prisoners in the United States, but an Australian case highlights its potential to mislead
Books & arts
Varieties of historical justice
Klaus Neumann
5 June 2012
The Nuremberg trials were not typical of how the Allies dispensed justice after the second world war, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
An outsider at war
Richard Johnstone
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
Books & arts
Unwasted moments
Sylvia Lawson
30 May 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Silent Souls
,
Wish You Were Here
and
Love Letters from Teralba Road
Books & arts
A particular place, a particular soil
Alan Saunders
23 May 2012
How do we get good olive oil? Tom Mueller has part of the answer, writes
Alan Saunders
Books & arts
Fergus Hume’s startling story
Simon Caterson
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes
Simon Caterson
Books & arts
Why we need music
Andrew Ford
8 May 2012
The most abstract of our arts is also one of the things that defines our humanity
Books & arts
Simenon’s cool humanity
Richard Johnstone
3 May 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews a new edition of a classic novel
Books & arts
How weird does this mob still seem?
Brian McFarlane
1 May 2012
Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
How Labor lost New South Wales
Andrew West
30 April 2012
A culture of entitlement helped undermine policy-making under four Labor premiers, writes
Andrew West
Books & arts
Memories for the future
Richard Johnstone
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The desire of the crowd
Iain Topliss
27 April 2012
Iain Topliss
revisits Marcel Carné’s classic,
Les Enfants du Paradis
Books & arts
Some kind of real world
Sylvia Lawson
26 April 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
This Must Be the Place
and
Le Havre
Books & arts
A “thug” in the Kremlin: unmasking Vladimir Putin
Robert Horvath
20 April 2012
Almost nothing remains of the once imposing myth of Putin the energetic moderniser, writes
Robert Horvath
Books & arts
Rupert and the right to know
Denis Muller
18 April 2012
Two new books wrestle with the issue of why readers’ trust in the media has plummeted, writes
Denis Muller
Books & arts
Tim Stevens’s undertow
Andrew Ford
12 April 2012
Andrew Ford
reviews a captivating new recording of improvised jazz piano
Books & arts
Quiet, please
Jock Given
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks
Jock Given
Books & arts
Cover stories
Richard Johnstone
4 April 2012
Richard Johnstone
on Picador’s reissue of
White Noise
, and its fortieth anniversary cover design
Books & arts
A world built on precarious foundations
Ian Watson
2 April 2012
Guy Standing brings together evidence about precarious employment from across the world, but his argument leaves
Ian Watson
with some unanswered questions
Books & arts
Law and disorder on the small screen
Ramon Lobato
23 March 2012
Ramon Lobato
reviews the latest batch of high-concept crime dramas
Books & arts
Just beyond the reach of words
Norman Abjorensen
22 March 2012
Norman Abjorensen
reviews a new biography of the enigmatic Rick Farley
Books & arts
Misinterpretations
Andrew Ford
16 March 2012
What would Leonard Cohen make of the use of “Hallelujah” as a community anthem, asks
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Modern families
Mary Leahy
8 March 2012
Mary Leahy
reviews Rebecca Asher’s investigation of how parenthood is shaped by society
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