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Pete’s legacy
Sylvia Lawson
23 February 2011
CINEMA | Pete Postlethwaite left behind a remarkable Australian film, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Succeeding like excess
Natasha Cica
28 January 2011
Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art opened on Friday night. A day later, Lara Giddings became premier.
Natasha Cica
reports
Books & arts
East of the west
Klaus Neumann
28 January 2011
The Impossible Border
brings an important period in German history out of the shadow of the Nazi era, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
Mnemonic nights
Brett Evans
27 January 2011
Brett Evans
reviews Tony Judt’s
The Memory Chalet
Books & arts
A first: John Lang, Australian novelist
Brian McFarlane
27 January 2011
Brian McFarlane
reviews a novel by an Australian, set in Britain and first published in India
Books & arts
A Shavian romance
Jill Kitson
27 January 2011
IN BRIEF |
Jill Kitson
reviews
The Prizefighter and the Playwright
Books & arts
Of kings and conferences
Sylvia Lawson
19 January 2011
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
at
The King’s Speech
and two cinema conferences in Sydney
Books & arts
The burden of numbers
Jim Masselos
19 January 2011
Mumbai is a big city getting bigger, writes
Jim Masselos
, but amid the crowds the quest for freedom goes on
Books & arts
Best (overlooked) books 2010
Inside Story contributors
23 December 2010
Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010
Books & arts
Believing in the numbers
Ian McShane
23 December 2010
Ian McShane
reviews Andrew Leigh’s book about social capital in Australia
Books & arts
Less is more
Andrew Ford
13 December 2010
Andrew Ford
reviews Stephen Sondheim’s autobiographical masterclass in lyric-writing
Books & arts
Doing the right thing
Brett Evans
6 December 2010
Brett Evans
reviews a surprising account of Guantanamo Bay’s first 100 days
Books & arts
Fonts we can believe in
Richard Johnstone
23 November 2010
Great typefaces combine the banal and the beautiful, according to one designer.
Richard Johnstone
reviews an engrossing account of their vast and ever-increasing variety and uses
Books & arts
Breaking the stereotypes
Sylvia Lawson
23 November 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reports from the third Palestinian Film Festival
Books & arts
Utopians
Grant Evans
22 November 2010
Grant Evans
reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
Books & arts
No steady ground
Sylvia Lawson
18 November 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Winter’s Bone
,
The Social Network
and
Genius Within
Books & arts
Lessons from Lanark
Cameron Muir
10 November 2010
John Fenton pioneered an innovative approach to ecological farming, writes
Cameron Muir
Books & arts
The most independent woman in the world
Jill Kitson
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Books & arts
Anything is possible
Richard Johnstone
26 October 2010
Perhaps Ferran Adrià – the chef who redefined the restaurant dinner as a series of culinary tweets, usually thirty or more of them in a sitting – really is the…
Books & arts
A long inheritance
Sylvia Lawson
20 October 2010
CINEMA | Taika Waititi’s
Boy
draws on a decades-old tradition of Maori political and cultural activism, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Each man was an island
Glenn Nicholls
19 October 2010
Glenn Nicholls
reviews the German-language edition of Herta Müller’s latest novel,
Everything I Possess I Carry with Me
Books & arts
Money, politics and parties
John Cain
19 October 2010
In some ways, not much has changed over the past sixty years, writes
John Cain
Books & arts
Retreat to the backyard
Peter Spearritt
7 October 2010
Peter Spearritt
looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities
Books & arts
Kindling
Terry Lane
6 October 2010
Terry Lane
reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
Books & arts
Yesterday, today and next week
Sylvia Lawson
22 September 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
at the Wheeler Centre, the Silent Film Festival and the local movie-house
Books & arts
The truth and nothing but
Brian McFarlane
16 September 2010
Maria Edgeworth’s last novel shows the influence of Jane Austen but also foreshadows Elizabeth Gaskell’s broader social range, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
Playing the game
Sylvia Lawson
18 August 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Ghost Writer
and
Animal Kingdom
Books & arts
A close reading of North Korea
James Reilly
5 August 2010
There’s something very different about this renegade nation
Books & arts
Arguing for peace
Sylvia Lawson
22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Hope in a Slingshot
, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts
The copyright cops
Ben Eltham
15 July 2010
When it comes to the prices they pay for copyrighted music, Australian consumers are being stung everywhere from the gym to the pub, writes
Ben Eltham
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