Books & arts
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Mark McShane’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Essays & reportage
4 July 2013
Disagreements about acceptable levels of inequality often rest on a misunderstanding of the existing distribution of income and wealth, writes Andrew Leigh
Books & arts
2 July 2013
A new account of Poland’s experience of the second world war helps fill a blank page in our historical consciousness, writes John Besemeres
Books & arts
24 June 2013
Fergal Davis reviews a vivid account of the human cost of the Guantanamo Bay trials
Books & arts
21 June 2013
On the anniversary of its publication, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews John Douglas Pringle’s self-deprecating account of a much-admired career
Books & arts
18 June 2013
What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town?
Books & arts
13 June 2013
Sara Dowse reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
Books & arts
11 June 2013
Juries are confused, but Australian courts don’t seem interested in understanding why
Books & arts
7 June 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
Books & arts
6 June 2013
Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government? Sara Dowse responds to Anne Summers’s The Misogyny Factor
Books & arts
31 May 2013
Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
Books & arts
23 May 2013
Frank Bongiorno reviews Nick Cater’s The Lucky Culture
Books & arts
17 May 2013
The mobile phone turned forty last month. Ramon Lobato reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
Books & arts
9 May 2013
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
Books & arts
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
2 May 2013
Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Books & arts
28 April 2013
Janine Burke on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
Books & arts
28 April 2013
Duncan Hewitt reviews two witty new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Books & arts
18 April 2013
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says Brett Evans
Books & arts
7 April 2013
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
Books & arts
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
Books & arts
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic
Books & arts
19 March 2013
Brett Evans looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
Books & arts
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist
Books & arts
26 February 2013
Peter Spearritt reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia
Books & arts
26 February 2013
Books | Three players, three hard slogs. Jock Given on the golden age of Australian tennis
Books & arts
13 February 2013
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall
Books & arts
13 February 2013
China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
12 February 2013
Chris Lydgate reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state…