Books & arts
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
1 October 2012
The forty years since Australia established relations with China have been about a lot more than trade and defence, writes Antonia Finnane
Books & arts
6 September 2012
Sylvia Lawson on Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the French film-maker Chris Marker
Books & arts
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula
Books & arts
5 September 2012
A one-man Sydney-based label has released 700 classical music CDs over the past decade and a half, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
3 September 2012
Using the growth of indebtedness as a way of explaining financial crises oversimplifies the modern economy, writes John Edwards
Books & arts
29 August 2012
There is no one quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
21 August 2012
Graeme Dobell reviews a collection of essays about Australia’s strategic environment
Books & arts
16 August 2012
Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given
Books & arts
14 August 2012
Hugh White offers a provocative but not entirely persuasive account of the implications of China’s growing strength, writes Geoffrey Barker
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a hard-to-classify account of the influence of Graham Greene
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Richard Johnstone on two very different explorations of food
Books & arts
7 August 2012
David Park’s new novel adds to the evidence that we are in the midst of a golden age of Northern Irish fiction, writes Matthew McGuire
Books & arts
3 August 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure
Books & arts
3 August 2012
Andrew Ford looks at how music has been the target of political and religious fundamentalists
Books & arts
25 July 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews Elena and Where Do We Go Now? and Hysteria, and pays tribute to Paul Willemen
Books & arts
20 July 2012
Jill Kitson reviews a new account of Barack Obama’s formative years
Books & arts
19 July 2012
Andy Lamey’s book, Frontier Justice, would make useful reading for the prime minister’s expert panel on asylum seekers, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
4 July 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Dean Ashenden looks at Australians’ enthusiasm for new foods and our readiness to adapt, improvise and reinvent
Books & arts
28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
25 June 2012
Andrew Ford forges a relationship with his new piano
Books & arts
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
24 June 2012
Michael Gilding reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Jock Given gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
12 June 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mungo MacCallum’s The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers
Books & arts
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
5 June 2012
The Nuremberg trials were not typical of how the Allies dispensed justice after the second world war, writes Klaus Neumann