Books & arts
Remembering the Dunera
Peter Mares
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
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
Not shaving to Schoenberg
Andrew Ford
12 August 2013
Why do writers and visual artists seem less interested in living composers than composers are in them, wonders Andrew Ford
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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