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Books & arts Heads or tails? Jock Given & Marion McCutcheon 7 May 2014 Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail”? Books & arts Game changers Jock Given 6 May 2014 The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes Jock Given Books & arts Seduction or safety? Matthew Ricketson 5 May 2014 Writer Joe McGinniss, who died in March, became a lightning rod for criticism of the way journalists deal with their sources, writes Matthew Ricketson Books & arts In the frontline of the war against boredom Andrew Dodd 24 April 2014 Andrew Dodd reviews Bob Carr’s absorbing and occasionally disturbing account of eighteen months as foreign minister

Books & arts An unknown, an interloper, a feminist Sybil Nolan 5 March 2014 Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia Books & arts A “self-fulfilling, rolling disaster”? Dean Ashenden 5 March 2014 A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes Dean Ashenden Books & arts Digging into the resource curse Michael Gilding 5 March 2014 The life stories of four mining magnates illuminate where Australia’s economy is headed, writes Michael Gilding. The political and social effects could be profound Books & arts Rights and desires Susan Powell 4 March 2014 Susan Powell traces the dramatically changing landscape of adoption in Australia

Books & arts Picnics and politics Kate Bagnall 24 January 2014 Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Kate Bagnall Books & arts New news is better than no news Scott Bridges 22 January 2014 A new book encourages a different way of thinking about “news" and how it’s presented on television, writes Scott Bridges Books & arts Grey zone Gabrielle Appleby 17 January 2014 Whistleblowers fill a gap left by legislatures and the courts. How can they be protected without creating an accountability vacuum, asks Gabrielle Appleby Books & arts Books grow out of other books; or Favourites revisited Brian McFarlane 16 January 2014 Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming provide the inspiration for four new novels, reviewed here by Brian McFarlane