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Books & arts
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The madness industry
Brett Evans
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida.
Brett Evans
reviews his new book
Books & arts
Photographic moments, constructed and decisive
Terry Lane
17 August 2011
Terry Lane
reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
The right thing
Ben Goldsmith
17 August 2011
The screening of the ABC’s ambitious courtroom drama,
Crownies
, coincides with a renewed debate about Australian content.
Ben Goldsmith
has been watching them both
Books & arts
Dangerous pleasure
Sylvia Lawson
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Senna
,
Jane Eyre
and
The Illusionist
Books & arts
Something in the water
Linda Jaivin
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin
reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel
The Fat Years
, now available in English
Books & arts
The Islanders: Torres Strait comes to Brisbane
Jeremy Beckett
11 August 2011
Jeremy Beckett
discusses Brisbane’s celebration of Torres Strait Islander culture, which launched in early July and continues until October
Books & arts
Looking at music
Andrew Ford
10 August 2011
Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
“A limit to this right of overlooking”
Jock Given
29 July 2011
Australians are likely to get a statutory right of privacy. Though it needs careful crafting, it’s high time
Books & arts
You’ve got to have friends
Anna Cristina Pertierra
29 July 2011
Anna Cristina Pertierra
looks at what social media tells us about communication
Books & arts
Things that cinema can do
Sylvia Lawson
28 July 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Terrence Malick’s
The Tree of Life
and Kelly Reichardt’s
Meek’s Cutoff
Books & arts
How outrage gripped Gandhi’s recalcitrant nation
Thomas Weber
27 July 2011
Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Mahatma Gandhi caused a storm in India even before it was published there.
Thomas Weber
looks at the book and its critics
Books & arts
Right time, wrong inquiry?
Peter Browne
21 July 2011
Curbing News Limited's reach wouldn’t be simple, writes
Peter Browne
, but there are other ways to encourage diversity
Books & arts
Beyond the easy life of gods
Annika Lems
12 July 2011
Annika Lems
reviews anthropologist Michael Jackson’s illuminating account of his return to the village of Firawa in Sierra Leone
Books & arts
The ages of Gielgud
7 July 2011
Brian McFarlane
reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
Books & arts
Precarious times
Sara Dowse
30 June 2011
You shouldn’t have to work for free to break into the white-collar world, argues Ross Perlin in this new book.
Sara Dowse
agrees
Books & arts
Leaks, sources and passing the salt
Matthew Ricketson
29 June 2011
Journalists need to think more carefully about their relationships with their sources, writes
Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
Hearts and minds
Christopher Snedden
28 June 2011
Christopher Snedden
reviews two books – a memoir and a novel – about the conflict in Kashmir
Books & arts
Moralising the colonial past
Tim Rowse
23 June 2011
Let’s allow our history to be complicated, argues
Tim Rowse
in this review of two new books about black–white relations
Books & arts
Arguments worth having
Sylvia Lawson
22 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson
at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
The return of the local
Ian McShane
21 June 2011
Two new books look at the places where social ecologies take root and flourish, writes
Ian McShane
Books & arts
What are critics for?
Brian McFarlane
14 June 2011
Brian McFarlane
reviews a new collection of critical essays about contemporary novels
Books & arts
Blurred boundaries
Sylvia Lawson
13 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases
Books & arts
Dark pop
Andrew Ford
6 June 2011
MUSIC |
Andrew Ford
explores the darkness at the junction of pop music and other genres
Books & arts
Imperfect storm
Rodney Tiffen
3 June 2011
We can now start to see how the world has and hasn’t been changed by WikiLeaks
Books & arts
Versions of ourselves
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2011
Richard Johnstone
considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source
Books & arts
Medea in Port Adelaide
Sylvia Lawson
24 May 2011
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Here I Am
and
Mad Bastards
Books & arts
Hell in a handcart
Jill Kitson
13 May 2011
Jill Kitson
on
Mad Men
and
The Great Gatsby
Books & arts
Art in internment
Glenn Nicholls
12 May 2011
Deported after the first world war, Paul Dubotzki had created a remarkable record of life as an internee, writes
Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
Guilty pleasure
Brett Evans
11 May 2011
West African countries supply two-thirds of the world’s chocolate, but spreading the benefits might take more than Quaker capitalism or Fairtrade, writes
Brett Evans
Books & arts
The new trend
Andrew Ford
10 May 2011
It was 1958, the year Brazil won the World Cup. National pride was at its zenith, writes
Andrew Ford
, and you can hear it in the music
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