Books & Arts
18 March 2019
Television | The different focus and register of season two of Secret City reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & Arts
30 August 2018
From the archive | Shane Maloney surveys the career of one of Sydney’s best-known fictional characters and the achievement of his creator, Peter Corris, who died this week
Books & Arts
13 November 2017
Television | SBS has identified a thirst for crime drama, but program-makers aren’t always coming up with the goods
Books & Arts
4 January 2016
Television | Jane Goodall witnesses Sherlock’s return to the world of fogs and hansom cabs
Books & Arts
5 February 2015
Books | A new Hercule Poirot novel is a reminder of the remarkable narrative skills of his creator, writes John Rickard
Books & Arts
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes Simon Caterson
National Affairs
3 November 2009
Two novels, two realities. Brian Toohey looks at what fiction can tell us about governments and human rights
Books & Arts
2 April 2009
What price utopia? Peter Browne reviews two new memoirs and a reissued series of crime novels
Books & Arts
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes Dennis Altman
