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
Books & arts
12 May 2010
Graham Perkin’s news editor, Geoffrey Barker, discusses Ben Hills’s biography of the legendary newspaper editor
Books & arts
1 April 2010
CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
29 March 2010
Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
Books & arts
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
25 February 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews A Prophet and Precious
Books & arts
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
18 February 2010
Fintan O’Toole’s gripping account of the fall of the Celtic Tiger
Books & arts
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
2 February 2010
TELEVISION | Yes Minister turns thirty this month. Terry Lane looks back at one of the great British TV comedies
Books & arts
9 December 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich probes the dark side of positive thinking — and how it helped create the global financial crisis
Books & arts
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
4 December 2009
The convenors of the “Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Reviewed” conference look at the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
Books & arts
23 November 2009
Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering