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
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