New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
27 Feb 13Why don’t we design better suburbs?
Peter Spearritt reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia
26 Feb 13Fletch, Muscles and the Rocket
Three players, three hard slogs. Jock Given on the golden age of Australian tennis
Fast fashion
Elizabeth Cline’s three hundred–plus-piece clothing collection means that she’s almost exactly the average American consumer. Sophie Black reviews her account of what all those clothes add up to
Well-made music
Andrew Ford on the life and work of Lennox Berkeley
21 Feb 13Perfect storms
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes Tom Bamforth
18 Feb 13Drones in the distance
Western policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on an outdated imperial playbook and a modern but mistaken belief in “surgical strikes,” writes David Stephens
14 Feb 13A slice of Alice Springs
Eleanor Hogan reviews Warwick Thornton’s film installation, Mother Courage
The humility of local consciousness
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall
13 Feb 13Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing
China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown
The lion and the Lion City
Chris Lydgate reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state and its neighbour, Malaysia
12 Feb 13Shades of green, black and white
David Bowman considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands
07 Feb 13Cerebral desire
Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates
What’s in a name?
Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers
12 Jan 13Inside or out?
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
02 Jan 13The sparkle of the miniature
Andrew Ford on the life and work of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
28 Dec 12Two deaths in Venice
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication, Glenn Nicholls looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
18 Dec 12The right kind of middle class?
In 1962 Peter Coleman assembled a group of writers to fill a gap in the way intellectuals had viewed Australia, writes Frank Bongiorno
16 Dec 12Best (overlooked) books 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
13 Dec 12Perchance to dream
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
12 Dec 12
