Books & arts
26 October 2012
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven composed the first song cycle, Paul Kelly has unveiled two – an album and a performance at the Melbourne Festival – writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Does every Australian have a right to decent housing? Governments might say so, but they’re not doing much to make it happen, writes Peter Spearritt
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Something interesting happens when a piece of music goes out into the world, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
10 October 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews an intimate account of the life of Werner Pelz
Books & arts
9 October 2012
Has the market economy changed the way we love? Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at three new books dealing with the difficult intersection of love, sex and gender
Books & arts
8 October 2012
A sympathetic biography of Gough Whitlam also recognises its subject’s shortcomings
Books & arts
4 October 2012
A new book offers a tentative view of the largely uncharted terrain of public opinion in China, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Books | The political and the personal illuminate each other in James Button’s fine account of a year in Canberra
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