Books & arts
18 August 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
Books & arts
5 August 2010
There’s something very different about this renegade nation
Books & arts
22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts
24 June 2010
TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie
Books & arts
16 June 2010
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
10 June 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
8 June 2010
What went wrong for Kevin Rudd? Judith Brett reviews David Marr’s Quarterly Essay
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
12 May 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Message Sticks Film Festival – including the “utterly unexpected” Boxing for Palm Island
Books & arts
1 April 2010
CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
25 February 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews A Prophet and Precious
Books & arts
4 February 2010
CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output
Books & arts
23 November 2009
Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering
Books & arts
3 November 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival
Books & arts
23 September 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Beautiful Kate and Blessed
Books & arts
25 August 2009
Robert Connolly’s Balibo draws together more than three decades of committed investigation and writing
Books & arts
5 August 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses the re-release of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright
Books & arts
27 July 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews In Treatment series one: therapy from start to finish
Books & arts
15 June 2009
Peter Craven reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Books & arts
9 June 2009
It hasn’t happened yet, but Nineteen Eighty-Four has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
19 May 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and this year’s Message Sticks festival
Books & arts
4 May 2009
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes…
Books & arts
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
20 April 2009
Well, they might have kicked off TV’s next Golden Age. Ellie Rennie watches season two of Rome
Books & arts
15 April 2009
Lauded overseas, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a flawed account of an important part of modern German history, writes Klaus Neumann
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
Books & arts
11 March 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Laurent Cantet’s The Class and David Field’s The Combination
Books & arts
27 February 2009
Ellie Rennie reviews First Australians on DVD
Books & arts
14 January 2009
As a political tool the internet is neither “top down” nor “bottom up,” argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of The Myth of Digital Democracy