Books & arts
23 December 2010
Ian McShane reviews Andrew Leigh’s book about social capital in Australia
Books & arts
13 December 2010
Andrew Ford reviews Stephen Sondheim’s autobiographical masterclass in lyric-writing
Books & arts
6 December 2010
Brett Evans reviews a surprising account of Guantanamo Bay’s first 100 days
Books & arts
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
23 November 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reports from the third Palestinian Film Festival
Books & arts
22 November 2010
Grant Evans reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
Books & arts
18 November 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Winter’s Bone, The Social Network and Genius Within
Books & arts
10 November 2010
John Fenton pioneered an innovative approach to ecological farming, writes Cameron Muir
Books & arts
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Books & arts
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
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
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
19 October 2010
In some ways, not much has changed over the past sixty years, writes John Cain
Books & arts
7 October 2010
Peter Spearritt looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities
Books & arts
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
22 September 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at the Wheeler Centre, the Silent Film Festival and the local movie-house
Books & arts
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
18 August 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
Books & arts
5 August 2010
There’s something very different about this renegade nation
Books & arts
22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mary Heimann’s revisionist history of Prague
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
Books & arts
7 July 2010
“If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
Books & arts
24 June 2010
TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie
Books & arts
16 June 2010
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
10 June 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
8 June 2010
What went wrong for Kevin Rudd? Judith Brett reviews David Marr’s Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
27 May 2010
The iPad goes on sale in Australia tomorrow. Jock Given reads two books about books and wonders what to do with the rest.
Books & arts
12 May 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Message Sticks Film Festival – including the “utterly unexpected” Boxing for Palm Island