Books & arts
18 July 2016
Television | Game of Thrones brings to the screen qualities we associate with Aeschylus and Sophocles, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts
2 June 2016
Composers might sometimes be envied by other artists, but music has a paradoxical limitation, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
30 May 2016
Australia’s array of awards shows there are good and bad ways of recognising great writing, argues Susan Lever
Books & arts
20 April 2016
Books | Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
24 March 2016
Television | It’s War and Peace’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes Jane Goodall. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts
17 March 2016
Adam Sisman’s biography of the prolific writer highlights the fine line between stories and lies, writes Peter Love
Books & arts
12 January 2016
A multilayered portrait of divided Britain is trapped by its animating spirit
Books & arts
23 November 2015
Books | Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes Susan Lever. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena
International
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes Linda Jaivin. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
From the archive
21 October 2015
Kangaroo may be the first truly modern novel written in Australia
Books & arts
16 September 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Susan Johnson’s new novel, The Landing
Books & arts
31 August 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin
Books & arts
31 July 2015
Television | Crime drama has been tipped upside down, writes Jane Goodall, as the BBC’s Line of Duty and Helen Piper’s The TV Detective reveal
Books & arts
26 June 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Steven Carroll's Forever Young
Books & arts
15 May 2015
Books | A new biography captures Thea Astley’s idiosyncrasies and contradictions, and the qualities of her fiction, writes Susan Lever
Books & arts
12 March 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews James Bradley’s new novel about a future reshaped by a changing climate
Books & arts
5 February 2015
A new Hercule Poirot novel is a reminder of the remarkable narrative skills of his creator
Books & arts
29 January 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things
Books & arts
20 December 2014
Books | Brian McFarlane finds a collection of essays by Tim Parks about books and writing well worth finishing
Essays & reportage
15 August 2014
W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming provide the inspiration for four new novels, reviewed here by Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
14 January 2014
Melancholy and occasionally joyous, the story of two “squinty daughters” doesn’t quite justify the pictures, writes Darren Tofts
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
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
25 September 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Muriel Spark’s The Mandelbaum Gate
Books & arts
31 May 2013
Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
Books & arts
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
29 August 2012
There is no one quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
7 August 2012
David Park’s new novel adds to the evidence that we are in the midst of a golden age of Northern Irish fiction, writes Matthew McGuire
Books & arts
3 August 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure