Frank Bongiorno reviews Nick Cater’s The Lucky Culture
23 May 13The middle-aged mobile
The mobile phone turned forty last month. Ramon Lobato reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
17 May 13Benjamin Britten’s voice
Much of Britten’s vocal music was written for Peter Pears, writes Andrew Ford, which creates quite a challenge for modern interpreters
16 May 13A welcome touch of modesty
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes Frank Bongiorno
09 May 13The go-between
Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
The adaptive eye
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
02 May 13A forgotten twentieth-century masterwork
Iain Topliss visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama, The Americans, on show in Cologne
The limits of empire
Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Such a bloody wonderful place
Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No
28 Apr 13A larger purpose, a larger sense of self
Janine Burke on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
The rally-car driver and the one-time dentist
Duncan Hewitt reviews two important – and laconically witty – new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Tricks of the trade
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says Brett Evans
18 Apr 13Margaret Thatcher and the moral neutrality of art
The soundtracks of other people’s lives can be unsettling, writes Andrew Ford
10 Apr 13The innocence of Quentin Blake
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved beyond books, writes Iain Topliss
07 Apr 13Feminism at the top table
Sara Dowse reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
04 Apr 13Taking flight
Sylvia Lawson reviews Rust and Bone and looks at the continuing controversy over Zero Dark Thirty
Tears before bedtime
Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic
03 Apr 13How did Cool Denmark become so hot?
Brett Evans looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
19 Mar 13The man who wasn’t there
Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
Captured by the Thuilliers
A mixture of the professional and the amateur brings a distinctive character to a remarkable collection of wartime photos, writes Richard Johnstone
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