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Books & arts
Falling through the floor
Sophie Black
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
Why does Labor exist?
Frank Bongiorno
18 November 2011
Labor’s search for meaning needs to go beyond the failures of the post-1996 party, writes
Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
Olegas Truchanas’s Lake Pedder
Ian McShane
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
The art of relevance
Andrew Ford
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
How the AFR’s “disastrous” paywall delivered the goods
Michael Gill
7 November 2011
Former Financial Review Group CEO
Michael Gill
responds to our podcast, Paywalls: the good news and the gamble
Books & arts
Cookbooks as military weapons?
Paul Wyrwoll
7 November 2011
Paul Wyrwoll
reviews Julian Cribb’s impassioned account of the global food crisis
Books & arts
Hanging by a thread
Richard Johnstone
1 November 2011
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month,
I Curse the River of Time
Books & arts
Soaring above it all
Sylvia Lawson
27 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Woody Allen’s
Midnight in Paris
Books & arts
Speaking truth to power and prejudice
John Besemeres
24 October 2011
Adam Michnik has taken a long journey from student rebel to newspaper editor.
John Besemeres
reviews his new collection of essays
Books & arts
The diplomat
Geoffrey Barker
24 October 2011
Geoffrey Barker
reviews Philip Flood’s memoir of a career in the diplomatic service and as an agency head
Books & arts
The Kid who wouldn’t grow up
Andrew Ford
22 October 2011
Ageing pop musicians find themselves caught between expectations, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Globalisation at ground level
Ramon Lobato
17 October 2011
A new study of Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions reveals a microcosm of “low-end globalisation,” writes
Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
In a bubble on the web
Jason Wilson
12 October 2011
What happens when the internet finds out what we like, asks
Jason Wilson
Books & arts
From the ashes
Tom Griffiths
12 October 2011
Books
| Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & arts
Rising to the operatic
Sylvia Lawson
5 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Eye of the Storm
and enters a controversy about
Red Dog
Books & arts
Every good boy deserves favour
Andrew Ford
5 October 2011
Musical notation is both more and less precise than writing and reading words, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Sensational fiction in Marvellous Melbourne
Kylie Mirmohamadi & Susan K. Martin
5 October 2011
Susan K. Martin
and
Kylie Mirmohamadi
look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Books & arts
Anthropology and remote Aboriginal lives
Diane Austin-Broos
5 October 2011
Diane Austin-Broos
responds to Tim Rowse's review of her book,
A Different Inequality
Books & arts
Not quite nailing a “failed debate”
Tim Rowse
3 October 2011
Tim Rowse
reviews an account of the debate about Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Books & arts
Acting your age
Richard Johnstone
3 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The good, the bad, the ugly
Ramon Lobato
28 September 2011
Robert Manne’s new anti-Murdoch polemic paints a familiar picture of bias and bullying at the
Australian
, writes
Ramon Lobato
. So what else is new?
Books & arts
What will it be like without them?
Sylvia Lawson
20 September 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Page One
and
Pina
Books & arts
Colonialism’s prequel
Lorenzo Veracini
16 September 2011
Julia Clancy-Smith’s
Mediterraneans
looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes
Lorenzo Veracini
Books & arts
Letters from home
Judith Brett
13 September 2011
Judith Brett
reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Books & arts
Fresh ears
Andrew Ford
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Free electrons
Daniel Nethery
7 September 2011
An optimistic account of the Tunisian revolution challenges stereotypes
Books & arts
What is the voter voting for?
Norman Abjorensen
2 September 2011
Norman Abjorensen
looks into the mind of the Australian voter
Books & arts
Crisis management
Klaus Neumann
26 August 2011
Perhaps ten million displaced people live in camps, often for years or even decades, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
Started low and finished high
Richard Johnstone
24 August 2011
Books
|
Richard Johnstone
considers the lobster
Books & arts
Caught again by Catch-22
Brian McFarlane
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary
Brian McFarlane
rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
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