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
Books & arts
27 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
Books & arts
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
24 October 2011
Geoffrey Barker reviews Philip Flood’s memoir of a career in the diplomatic service and as an agency head
Books & arts
22 October 2011
Ageing pop musicians find themselves caught between expectations, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
17 October 2011
A new study of Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions reveals a microcosm of “low-end globalisation,” writes Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
12 October 2011
What happens when the internet finds out what we like, asks Jason Wilson
Books & arts
12 October 2011
Books | Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & arts
5 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Eye of the Storm and enters a controversy about Red Dog
Books & arts
5 October 2011
Musical notation is both more and less precise than writing and reading words, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
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
5 October 2011
Diane Austin-Broos responds to Tim Rowse's review of her book, A Different Inequality
Books & arts
3 October 2011
Tim Rowse reviews an account of the debate about Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Books & arts
3 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
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
20 September 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Page One and Pina
Books & arts
16 September 2011
Julia Clancy-Smith’s Mediterraneans looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes Lorenzo Veracini