Books & arts
23 December 2010
Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010
Books & arts
23 December 2010
Ian McShane reviews Andrew Leigh’s book about social capital in Australia
Books & arts
13 December 2010
Andrew Ford reviews Stephen Sondheim’s autobiographical masterclass in lyric-writing
Essays & reportage
13 December 2010
Anyone for anglianico, negroamaro or schioppettino? Charles Gent looks at the growing diversity in Australian vineyards as the industry struggles to cope with difficult times
Books & arts
6 December 2010
Brett Evans reviews a surprising account of Guantanamo Bay’s first 100 days
Books & arts
23 November 2010
Great typefaces combine the banal and the beautiful, according to one designer. Richard Johnstone reviews an engrossing account of their vast and ever-increasing variety and uses
Books & arts
22 November 2010
Grant Evans reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
Books & arts
10 November 2010
John Fenton pioneered an innovative approach to ecological farming, writes Cameron Muir
Essays & reportage
10 November 2010
Book contract in her bag, Maria Tumarkin set out for Russia and Ukraine. All was well until people started asking questions
Books & arts
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Books & arts
26 October 2010
Perhaps Ferran Adrià – the chef who redefined the restaurant dinner as a series of culinary tweets, usually thirty or more of them in a sitting – really is the…
Books & arts
6 October 2010
Terry Lane reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
29 September 2010
In London, Frank Bongiorno ponders the life of a highly productive expatriate who eventually returned to Australia, and those who have followed him
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mary Heimann’s revisionist history of Prague
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
Books & arts
7 July 2010
“If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
Books & arts
27 May 2010
The iPad goes on sale in Australia tomorrow. Jock Given reads two books about books and wonders what to do with the rest.
Books & arts
29 March 2010
Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
From the archive
15 March 2010
Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations
Books & arts
15 March 2010
Scott Ewing reviews Soccernomics, which promises to show “why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, and why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey –…
Books & arts
4 December 2009
BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes Hank Nelson
Books & arts
23 November 2009
Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering
Books & arts
18 November 2009
Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes David Kelly
From the archive
15 September 2009
What makes Americans so prone to marrying, and remarrying?
Books & arts
27 August 2009
Mike Ticher reviews two post-Hornby books about football and passion
Books & arts
15 June 2009
Peter Craven reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Books & arts
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child
Books & arts
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
2 April 2009
What price utopia? Two new memoirs and a series of crime novels give some clues
Books & arts
17 March 2009
Part of the international success of Bernard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, reflects a mistaken view of contemporary Germany, writes Klaus Neumann