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
Books & arts
13 September 2011
Judith Brett reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Books & arts
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports Andrew Ford
Books & arts
7 September 2011
An optimistic account of the Tunisian revolution challenges stereotypes
Books & arts
2 September 2011
Norman Abjorensen looks into the mind of the Australian voter
Books & arts
26 August 2011
Perhaps ten million displaced people live in camps, often for years or even decades, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
24 August 2011
Books | Richard Johnstone considers the lobster
Books & arts
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary Brian McFarlane rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
Books & arts
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida. Brett Evans reviews his new book
Books & arts
17 August 2011
Terry Lane reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
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
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Senna, Jane Eyre and The Illusionist