Books & arts
18 November 2009
Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes David Kelly
Books & arts
3 November 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival
Books & arts
23 September 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Beautiful Kate and Blessed
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
27 July 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews In Treatment series one: therapy from start to finish
Books & arts
7 July 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews highlights of the Sydney Film Festival and the soon-to-tour Arab Film Festival
Books & arts
17 June 2009
The Slap captures contemporary Australian life? Andrew Lynch isn’t so sure
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
20 April 2009
Well, they might have kicked off TV’s next Golden Age. Ellie Rennie watches season two of Rome
Books & arts
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
Books & arts
2 April 2009
What price utopia? Two new memoirs and a series of crime novels give some clues
Books & arts
17 March 2009
Part of the international success of Bernard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, reflects a mistaken view of contemporary Germany, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
11 March 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Laurent Cantet’s The Class and David Field’s The Combination
Books & arts
27 February 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews First Australians on DVD
Books & arts
5 February 2009
Like his trio music, Keith Jarrett’s solo concerts draw on enduring music forms, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
3 February 2009
Judith Armstrong reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target
Books & arts
21 January 2009
Screen Australia arrives in the world amid a renewed debate about the film industry
Books & arts
20 January 2009
Ian Anderson reviews Tess Lea’s innovative Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts
Books & arts
14 January 2009
As a political tool the internet is neither “top down” nor “bottom up,” argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of The Myth of Digital Democracy