Books & arts
16 February 2012
Critics of Peter Kosminsky’s series The Promise – released on DVD this week – are misrepresenting its depiction of Arab and Israeli characters, argues Hal Wootten
Books & arts
16 February 2012
New Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney albums in a single week? Close enough, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
16 February 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews Albrecht Dümling’s study of refugee musicians from Nazism who came to Australia
Books & arts
16 February 2012
Denis O’Brien’s story helps explain what went wrong for the Celtic Tiger
Books & arts
15 February 2012
Brian McFarlane on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael
Books & arts
14 February 2012
ABC TV has returned to normal programming, but the dominance of Britain lingers on
Books & arts
10 February 2012
If you think every combination of instruments has been tried, think again, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
8 February 2012
Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards
Books & arts
8 February 2012
Two new books venture deep into the belly of global cybercrime and fraud, writes Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
3 February 2012
Darren Tofts reviews a new account of David Bowie’s transformation as the swinging sixties gave way to the glam seventies
Books & arts
1 February 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
Books & arts
18 January 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a huge collection of the correspondence of the very prolific P.G. Wodehouse
Books & arts
12 January 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March
Books & arts
12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Books & arts
21 December 2011
With the right leadership Burma could undoubtedly use its position between China and India to its advantage, writes Nicholas Farrelly
Books & arts
21 December 2011
A new series of short books is fighting the wrong kind of war, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
16 December 2011
Tim Thwaites reviews an oblique introduction to one of the great figures of the twentieth century
Books & arts
15 December 2011
Iain Topliss looks at why we don’t – and shouldn’t – speak the same language, and how Russian has no single word for blue
Books & arts
15 December 2011
Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
8 December 2011
If it reminded us of nothing else, the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth underlined his extraordinary energy
Books & arts
7 December 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Toomelah, The Tall Man and Burning Man
Books & arts
2 December 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
Books & arts
29 November 2011
Dennis Altman reviews Ron Suskind’s account of Barack Obama’s presidency
Books & arts
24 November 2011
One of France’s best-known journalists went undercover to see the recession first-hand. Sophie Black reviews her account of the experience
Books & arts
18 November 2011
Labor’s search for meaning needs to go beyond the failures of the post-1996 party, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
15 November 2011
Ian McShane reviews Natasha Cica’s account of the life of wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas and his role in the campaign to save Lake Pedder
Books & arts
8 November 2011
Telling our own stories through the arts is obviously a good thing, writes Andrew Ford, but what does it mean in practice?
Books & arts
7 November 2011
Former Financial Review Group CEO Michael Gill responds to our podcast, Paywalls: the good news and the gamble
Books & arts
7 November 2011
Paul Wyrwoll reviews Julian Cribb’s impassioned account of the global food crisis
Books & arts
1 November 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, I Curse the River of Time