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
Books & arts
28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
25 June 2012
Andrew Ford forges a relationship with his new piano
Books & arts
25 June 2012
Lyndon Johnson took on the frustrating role of vice-president to shake off the taint of Southern racism and conservatism. And the rest is history
Books & arts
24 June 2012
Michael Gilding reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Jock Given gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
12 June 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mungo MacCallum’s The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers
Books & arts
7 June 2012
DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 prisoners in the United States, but an Australian case highlights its potential to mislead
Books & arts
5 June 2012
The Nuremberg trials were not typical of how the Allies dispensed justice after the second world war, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
Books & arts
30 May 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews Silent Souls, Wish You Were Here and Love Letters from Teralba Road
Books & arts
23 May 2012
How do we get good olive oil? Tom Mueller has part of the answer, writes Alan Saunders
Books & arts
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes Simon Caterson
Books & arts
8 May 2012
The most abstract of our arts is also one of the things that defines our humanity
Books & arts
3 May 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews a new edition of a classic novel
Books & arts
1 May 2012
Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
30 April 2012
A culture of entitlement helped undermine policy-making under four Labor premiers, writes Andrew West
Books & arts
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
27 April 2012
Iain Topliss revisits Marcel Carné’s classic, Les Enfants du Paradis
Books & arts
26 April 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews This Must Be the Place and Le Havre
Books & arts
20 April 2012
Almost nothing remains of the once imposing myth of Putin the energetic moderniser, writes Robert Horvath
Books & arts
18 April 2012
Two new books wrestle with the issue of why readers’ trust in the media has plummeted, writes Denis Muller