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
Retrospective
18 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…
Books & arts
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates
Books & arts
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers
From the archive
19 December 2012
What happened when journalist Peter Coleman assembled a star-studded group of writers in 1962 to rethink the way intellectuals viewed Australia?
Books & arts
18 December 2012
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication, Glenn Nicholls looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
Books & arts
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Books & arts
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet
Books & arts
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
17 November 2012
David Dorward reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects
Books & arts
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
17 October 2012
The latest biography of Liang Qichao reveals a man of his times with a new significance for present-day China, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Does every Australian have a right to decent housing? Governments might say so, but they’re not doing much to make it happen, writes Peter Spearritt