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
Books & arts
13 January 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews the first season of Mad Men, where work really matters
Books & arts
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes Dennis Altman
Books & arts
12 December 2008
Television | With few dissenting voices, The Howard Years was an unsurprising exercise in self-justification, writes Paul Strangio
Books & arts
4 November 2008
High-profile economist Robert Shiller doesn’t dig deeply enough into the causes of the sub-prime crisis, writes John Edwards