Books & arts
30 August 2013
Readers and journalists are mostly missing from two recent books about the troubles at Fairfax, writes Sybil Nolan
Books & arts
27 August 2013
Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
25 August 2013
“Cyber war” has more in common with the war on obesity than the second world war, says Thomas Rid. Emily Crawford reviews his new book
Books & arts
22 August 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making
Books & arts
22 August 2013
Despite the global financial crisis and high-profile scandals, money continues to flow at the highest end of the art auction market. Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at why
Books & arts
18 August 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews B.S. Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
Books & arts
15 August 2013
Does misogyny in politics reflect a deeper problem in the character of political debate, asks Jane Goodall
Books & arts
12 August 2013
Why do writers and visual artists seem less interested in living composers than composers are in them, wonders Andrew Ford
Books & arts
29 July 2013
Annabelle Sheehan reviews a new account of the revolution in American TV that began on HBO
Books & arts
25 July 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Satellite Boy, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks and The Great Gatsby
Books & arts
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Mark McShane’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Books & arts
14 July 2013
Andrew Ford on the long careers of composers Pierre Boulez and Henri Dutilleux
Books & arts
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
27 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
24 June 2013
Fergal Davis reviews a vivid account of the human cost of the Guantanamo Bay trials
Books & arts
21 June 2013
On the anniversary of its publication, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews John Douglas Pringle’s self-deprecating account of a much-admired career
Books & arts
20 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
18 June 2013
What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town?
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