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Books & arts Richard Johnstone 20 November 2014 Melbourne-born photographer Ashley Gilbertson has abandoned action photography for a different way of depicting warfare, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts Graeme Dobell 13 November 2014 A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes Graeme Dobell Books & arts Jacinta Halloran 6 November 2014 Two accounts of getting, and being, pregnant tell only part of the story about conception and childbirth Books & arts Lesley Russell 6 November 2014 Adam Reich vividly describes the way different kinds of hospitals work in the United States, writes Lesley Russell. But what happened to the patients? Books & arts Janna Thompson 5 November 2014 How we should accommodate and respect the values of people who aren’t like us? A new book has some of the answers, writes Janna Thompson
Books & arts Ken Haley 31 October 2014 As much catharsis as history, Gareth Evans’s diaries are a compelling insider account, writes Ken Haley
Books & arts Judith Brett 27 October 2014 Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett Books & arts Sophie Black 22 October 2014 Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black Books & arts Richard Johnstone 20 October 2014 Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes Richard Johnstone Books & arts Sara Dowse 15 October 2014 Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Books & arts Brian McFarlane 23 September 2014 Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 19 September 2014 Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal National affairs Stephen Mills 19 September 2014 Private secretary, chief of staff, enforcer? Stephen Mills looks at the role of the prime minister’s most influential gatekeeper Books & arts Stuart Macintyre 19 September 2014 Stuart Macintyre reviews a new biography of the titan of Australian newspaper proprietors, David Syme Books & arts Bill Hannan 11 September 2014 There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools
Books & arts Angela Daly 11 September 2014 Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities
Books & arts Brett Evans 5 September 2014 Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre Essays & reportage R.J.B. Bosworth 27 August 2014 Duplicitous, pure, dream-like, artificial, psychopathic, unpredictable? Beneath the overheated commentary about Venice, there’s a real city, writes R.J.B. Bosworth Books & arts Susan Lever 27 August 2014 Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong Essays & reportage Adam Nicol 15 August 2014 W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol
Summer season Janna Thompson 12 August 2014 Does Christianity’s “original sin” help us understand Western culture in the twenty-first century?
Books & arts Ken Haley 7 August 2014 Ben Hills offers a distinctive take on what went wrong for Fairfax, writes Ken Haley Books & arts David Le Couteur 28 July 2014 Why do so many dementia researchers hold to a single theory so fervently? An unsettling new book throws light on entrenched beliefs, writes David Le Couteur Books & arts Peter Mares 28 July 2014 New visa arrangements make it possible for international students to study and work in Australia for many years without necessarily being on a path to permanent residency, writes… Retrospective Graeme Dobell 25 July 2014 Will this contest be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash?
Books & arts Tom Westland 23 July 2014 Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently
Books & arts Helena Liu 23 July 2014 Can work be good for employees and employers? Helena Liu reviews a new book that wrestles with problems of workplace organisation, but doesn’t go quite far enough From the archive Stephen Mills 21 July 2014 Cyril Wyndham, the energetic, reformist outsider, changed forever the way Labor organised itself federally. And then he paid the price International Kerry Brown 18 July 2014 A controversial new biography of Xi Jinping fundamentally misunderstands the nature of China’s leadership, argues Kerry Brown Essays & reportage Anna Johnston 27 June 2014 Blending journalism, romance and travelogue, The Great Australian Loneliness crossed a different set of borders during the second world war