Essays & reportage
Cooking the books
Bruce Buchan
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Books & arts
It’s hard to put a lid on the world
Klaus Neumann and Karina Horsti
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
Essays & reportage
“Now, where were we…?”
Andrew Dodd
19 January 2017
My unexpected lunch with James Fairfax, once heir to the media empire
Books & arts
Whose utopia?
Madeleine O’Dea
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes
International
Engineers of human souls
Linda Jaivin
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes Linda Jaivin. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
Essays & reportage
Living the good life in precarious times
Jon Altman
2 June 2015
Jon Altman has been visiting the remote Aboriginal community of Maningrida for many years. In February, he talked to Kuninjku people about the impact of…
Books & arts
Achieving luminosity
Eleanor Hogan
19 May 2015
Books | Martin Edmond’s dual biography of Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira illuminates a remarkable friendship, writes Eleanor Hogan
Books & arts
Looking at ourselves in Pompeii’s mirror
Frank Sear
18 June 2013
What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town?
Books & arts
The innocence of Quentin Blake
Iain Topliss
7 April 2013
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
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