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Books & arts The adaptive eye Brian McFarlane 2 May 2013 The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane Books & arts A forgotten twentieth-century masterwork Iain Topliss 2 May 2013 Iain Topliss visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama, The Americans, on show in Cologne Books & arts The limits of empire Henry Reynolds 2 May 2013 Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents Books & arts Such a bloody wonderful place Sylvia Lawson 28 April 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No

Books & arts How did Cool Denmark become so hot? Brett Evans 19 March 2013 Brett Evans looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power” Books & arts The man who wasn’t there Sylvia Lawson 19 March 2013 Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House Books & arts Watching the audience Andrew Ford 13 March 2013 A composer doesn’t often see people in the act of listening to music, writes Andrew Ford. WOMADelaide was an opportunity to take a look Books & arts The youngish one Richard Johnstone 6 March 2013 Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist

Books & arts Drones in the distance David Stephens 14 February 2013 Western policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on an outdated imperial playbook and a modern but mistaken belief in “surgical strikes,” writes David Stephens Books & arts A slice of Alice Springs Eleanor Hogan 14 February 2013 Eleanor Hogan reviews Warwick Thornton’s film installation, Mother Courage Books & arts The humility of local consciousness Jane Goodall 13 February 2013 Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall Books & arts Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing Kerry Brown 13 February 2013 China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown