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If we don’t do it, who will?
Geoffrey Barker
12 May 2010
Graham Perkin’s news editor,
Geoffrey Barker
, discusses Ben Hills’s biography of the legendary newspaper editor
Books & arts
Out of the picture
Sylvia Lawson
1 April 2010
CINEMA |
The Hurt Locker
doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Learning from Walmart
Ken Hillman
29 March 2010
Ken Hillman
reviews
The Checklist Manifesto
, by surgeon and
New Yorker
writer Atul Gawande
Books & arts
Soccer by numbers
Scott Ewing
15 March 2010
Scott Ewing
reviews
Soccernomics
, which promises to show “why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, and why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey –…
Books & arts
Scrambling out of the debris
Sylvia Lawson
25 February 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
A Prophet
and
Precious
Books & arts
Words in a time of war
Matthew Ricketson
25 February 2010
Matthew Ricketson
talks to journalist Mark Danner, in Australia for the launch of his book
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War
Books & arts
Steering blithely towards the rocks
Judith Brett
18 February 2010
Fintan O’Toole’s gripping account of the fall of the Celtic Tiger
Books & arts
Complications
Sylvia Lawson
4 February 2010
CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest.
Sylvia Lawson
looks back at a year’s output
Books & arts
Happy birthday, minister
Terry Lane
2 February 2010
TELEVISION |
Yes Minister
turns thirty this month.
Terry Lane
looks back at one of the great British TV comedies
Books & arts
Always look on the bright side
Brett Evans
9 December 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich probes the dark side of positive thinking — and how it helped create the global financial crisis
Books & arts
Tracking Kokoda
Hank Nelson
4 December 2009
BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes
Hank Nelson
Books & arts
Reviewing Indigenous history in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
Maria Nugent & Shino Konishi
4 December 2009
The convenors of the “Baz Luhrmann’s
Australia
Reviewed” conference look at the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
Books & arts
Driven into action
Ian Anderson
23 November 2009
Ian Anderson
reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy,
The Politics of Suffering
Books & arts
The enigma of Chinese modernisation
David Kelly
18 November 2009
Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes
David Kelly
Books & arts
Beyond the checkpoints
Sylvia Lawson
3 November 2009
Sylvia Lawson
discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival
Books & arts
All in the family
Sylvia Lawson
23 September 2009
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Beautiful Kate
and
Blessed
Books & arts
Equal but different
John Hughes
22 September 2009
Filmmaker
John Hughes
responds to Ruth Balint’s essay on history and television
Books & arts
Standing on the sidelines
Mike Ticher
27 August 2009
Mike Ticher
reviews two post-Hornby books about football and passion
Books & arts
Half-forgotten, and given back
Sylvia Lawson
25 August 2009
Robert Connolly’s
Balibo
draws together more than three decades of committed investigation and writing
Books & arts
One way of seeing
Sylvia Lawson
5 August 2009
Sylvia Lawson
discusses the re-release of Ted Kotcheff’s
Wake in Fright
Books & arts
On the couch
Ellie Rennie
27 July 2009
Ellie Rennie
reviews
In Treatment
series one: therapy from start to finish
Books & arts
At two festivals
Sylvia Lawson
7 July 2009
Sylvia Lawson
reviews highlights of the Sydney Film Festival and the soon-to-tour Arab Film Festival
Books & arts
Suburban mayhem
Andrew Lynch
17 June 2009
The Slap
captures contemporary Australian life?
Andrew Lynch
isn’t so sure
Books & arts
Gulfs of desire
Peter Craven
15 June 2009
Peter Craven
reviews Colm Tóibín’s
Brooklyn
Books & arts
Nineteen Eighty-Four turns sixty
Brian McFarlane
9 June 2009
It hasn’t happened yet, but
Nineteen Eighty-Four
has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
The new black
Sylvia Lawson
19 May 2009
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Warwick Thornton’s
Samson and Delilah
and this year’s Message Sticks festival
Books & arts
What might, and did, happen
Ian McShane
18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks
Ian McShane
Books & arts
The rise and rise of Jane Austen
Brian McFarlane
4 May 2009
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes…
Books & arts
The lost mother
Amanda Lohrey
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey
reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir,
The Lost Child
Books & arts
When towers topple
Glenn Nicholls
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes
Glenn Nicholls
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