Books & arts
9 December 2013
Klaus Neumann reviews two books that put displaced people at the heart of contemporary history
Books & arts
5 December 2013
A new book shows how much Australia owes to canvas, writes Peter Spearritt
Books & arts
3 December 2013
In his desire to find the evil in Douglas Mawson, David Day overlooks the awkward tenderness and vulnerability that may lie at the heart of this flawed and driven man, writes…
Books & arts
2 December 2013
It’s not just sweatshop labour that keeps down the price of the stuff we buy, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
2 December 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Janet Lewis’s The Trial of Sören Qvist
Books & arts
29 November 2013
Sara Dowse reviews three new books about what it means to grow old
Books & arts
28 November 2013
How did an unelected campaign consultant come to exercise such influence over Labor’s 2013 campaign, asks Stephen Mills
Books & arts
15 November 2013
Three biographies reveal twentieth-century Australians in the thick of things, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
7 November 2013
A new book unpacks the complex relationship between politics and football in Spain, writes Scott Ewing
Books & arts
6 November 2013
As a new book argues, innovation isn’t “soldered to science,” writes Michael Gilding
Essays & reportage
23 October 2013
Charmian Clift’s Peel Me a Lotus has inspired Australian women travel writers for over half a century, but the result has been a quite different kind of writing,…
Books & arts
21 October 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Ella K. Maillart’s account of a remarkable prewar journey across Europe and into Asia
Books & arts
21 October 2013
A new book argues that it is morally defensible to restrict migrants’ rights in order to give them access to the benefits of increased migration, writes Peter Mares
Books & arts
18 October 2013
Robin Jeffrey reviews a richly researched wake-up call from two distinguished India-watchers
International
10 October 2013
David G. Marr describes the genesis of his new book, a detailed look at a turning point in modern Vietnamese history
Books & arts
9 October 2013
By the time Ken G. Hall filmed Dad Rudd M.P., his film-making had come to reflect international popular culture as well as Australian traditions, writes Julieanne Lamond
Books & arts
4 October 2013
Wrestling with evil might have less value than exploring the interplay of humanity’s crimes, follies and tragedies, writes R.J.B. Bosworth
Books & arts
2 October 2013
The film and TV landscape has changed forever. Annabelle Sheehan reviews a timely guidebook
Books & arts
25 September 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Muriel Spark’s The Mandelbaum Gate
Books & arts
13 September 2013
Journalism is increasingly becoming a matter of selecting from an avalanche of material, writes Scott Bridges
Books & arts
11 September 2013
Ramon Lobato reviews two manifestos responding to the commercialisation of the web
Books & arts
10 September 2013
Filling the knowledge gap will only take us so far in dealing with Australia’s leadership problems, writes Helena Liu
Books & arts
6 September 2013
What can Australians do? They used to make radios, TV sets and Volkswagens, writes Jock Given. After 2016, they won’t even be making Falcons
Books & arts
2 September 2013
It’s time for harder thinking about Labor’s strengths and weaknesses, says Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
30 August 2013
Readers and journalists are mostly missing from two recent books about the troubles at Fairfax, writes Sybil Nolan
Books & arts
27 August 2013
Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes Kerry Brown
Books & arts
25 August 2013
“Cyber war” has more in common with the war on obesity than the second world war, says Thomas Rid. Emily Crawford reviews his new book
Books & arts
22 August 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making
Books & arts
22 August 2013
Despite the global financial crisis and high-profile scandals, money continues to flow at the highest end of the art auction market. Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at why
Books & arts
18 August 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews B.S. Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry