Books & arts
1 April 2011
What we are looking for when we wander through IKEA stores?
Books & arts
24 March 2011
A new book argues that Barack Obama is guided by “philosophical pragmatism.” Jill Kitson isn’t so sure
Books & arts
24 March 2011
CINEMA | As Charles Ferguson’s new documentary shows, much of the liveliest cinema falls outside feature films, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
23 March 2011
Robin Jeffrey reviews Anand Giridharadas’s vivid new account of a nation in transition
Books & arts
23 March 2011
An important new book helps explain why Saudi Arabia is unlikely to experience the same upheavals as some of its neighbours, writes Matthew Gray
Books & arts
16 March 2011
Australia’s history of international broadcasting is littered with mis-steps, writes Rodney Tiffen. Will the government’s current tendering process see it…
Books & arts
15 March 2011
How do you compose for a brass band? Andrew Ford went to Yorkshire to find out
Books & arts
24 February 2011
Terry Lane on the career and life of one of America’s great photographers, Berenice Abbott
Books & arts
23 February 2011
CINEMA | Pete Postlethwaite left behind a remarkable Australian film, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
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
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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
27 January 2011
Brett Evans reviews Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet
Books & arts
27 January 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a novel by an Australian, set in Britain and first published in India
Books & arts
27 January 2011
IN BRIEF | Jill Kitson reviews The Prizefighter and the Playwright
Books & arts
19 January 2011
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at The King’s Speech and two cinema conferences in Sydney
Books & arts
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
23 December 2010
Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010
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
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22 November 2010
Grant Evans reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
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18 November 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Winter’s Bone, The Social Network and Genius Within
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10 November 2010
John Fenton pioneered an innovative approach to ecological farming, writes Cameron Muir
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27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
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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