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
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18 November 2009
Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes David Kelly
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3 November 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival
Books & arts
23 September 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Beautiful Kate and Blessed
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22 September 2009
Filmmaker John Hughes responds to Ruth Balint’s essay on history and television
Books & arts
27 August 2009
Mike Ticher reviews two post-Hornby books about football and passion
Books & arts
25 August 2009
Robert Connolly’s Balibo draws together more than three decades of committed investigation and writing
Books & arts
5 August 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses the re-release of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright
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27 July 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews In Treatment series one: therapy from start to finish
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7 July 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews highlights of the Sydney Film Festival and the soon-to-tour Arab Film Festival
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17 June 2009
The Slap captures contemporary Australian life? Andrew Lynch isn’t so sure
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15 June 2009
Peter Craven reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Books & arts
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
19 May 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and this year’s Message Sticks festival
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18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane
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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
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child
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20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes Glenn Nicholls
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20 April 2009
Well, they might have kicked off TV’s next Golden Age. Ellie Rennie watches season two of Rome
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15 April 2009
Lauded overseas, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a flawed account of an important part of modern German history, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
6 April 2009
Australian soldier and anthropologist David Kilcullen (pictured), who helped design the Iraq surge, has now written a book about how western counter-terrorism must change…
Books & arts
2 April 2009
The sources of Andrew Ford’s compositions are as varied as his guests each Saturday on The Music Show, writes Gordon Kerry in this extract from his new book