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Books & arts Timber to ashes, ashes to earth Sylvia Lawson 21 May 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson on Canberra’s last Electric Shadow, George Brandis and the Australia Council, and Testament of Youth and X+Y Books & arts Crowded years Brian McFarlane 19 May 2015 Extract | After decades of stage and screen success, John McCallum and Googie Withers struck out in new directions in the late 1960s, writes Brian McFarlane Books & arts “War goes to sleep, but with one eye always open” Sylvia Lawson 29 April 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews German Concentration Camps Factual Survey and remembers film-maker David Perry Books & arts Full circle Sylvia Lawson 2 April 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Leviathan and Selma

Books & arts Ubiquitous Uncle Vanya Brian McFarlane 2 October 2014 Brian McFarlane revisits Chekhov’s remarkable play, on screen and away from Russia Books & arts This is how it was Sylvia Lawson 2 October 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Immigrant and Message from Mungo Books & arts La vita difficile Angela Daly 30 September 2014 Away from the holiday playgrounds, Europe is running on low-paid labour, writes Angela Daly Books & arts The making of a great biography Brian McFarlane 23 September 2014 Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane

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,” ask Jock Given and Marion McCutcheon Books & arts What about the rabbit? Brian McFarlane 26 April 2014 In London, Brian McFarlane reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre Books & arts Heads above water Sylvia Lawson 3 April 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Hannah Arendt, The Missing Picture, Tracks and The Great Beauty Books & arts Not so much the tale as its telling Sylvia Lawson 5 March 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Past and Utopia