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
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
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
Books & arts
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel The Fat Years, now available in English
Books & arts
11 August 2011
Jeremy Beckett discusses Brisbane’s celebration of Torres Strait Islander culture, which launched in early July and continues until October
Books & arts
10 August 2011
Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
29 July 2011
Australians are likely to get a statutory right of privacy. Though it needs careful crafting, it’s high time
Books & arts
29 July 2011
Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at what social media tells us about communication
Books & arts
28 July 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
Books & arts
27 July 2011
Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Mahatma Gandhi caused a storm in India even before it was published there. Thomas Weber looks at the book and its critics
Books & arts
21 July 2011
Curbing News Limited's reach wouldn’t be simple, writes Peter Browne, but there are other ways to encourage diversity
Books & arts
12 July 2011
Annika Lems reviews anthropologist Michael Jackson’s illuminating account of his return to the village of Firawa in Sierra Leone
Books & arts
7 July 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
Books & arts
30 June 2011
You shouldn’t have to work for free to break into the white-collar world, argues Ross Perlin in this new book. Sara Dowse agrees
Books & arts
29 June 2011
Journalists need to think more carefully about their relationships with their sources, writes Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
28 June 2011
Christopher Snedden reviews two books – a memoir and a novel – about the conflict in Kashmir
Books & arts
23 June 2011
Let’s allow our history to be complicated, argues Tim Rowse in this review of two new books about black–white relations
Books & arts
22 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
21 June 2011
Two books look at places where social ecologies take root and flourish
Books & arts
14 June 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a new collection of critical essays about contemporary novels
Books & arts
13 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases