CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
18 Aug 10A close reading of North Korea
BOOKS | There’s something very different about North Korea. James Reilly reviews a partly successful attempt to understand why
05 Aug 10Arguing for peace
DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
22 Jul 10Flashpoint
BOOKS | Norman Abjorensen reviews Mary Heimann’s revisionist history of Prague
13 Jul 10Hollywood economics
BOOKS | Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
Large questions about a big corporation
BOOKS | “If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
07 Jul 10Count to five and twenty
TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie
24 Jun 10Adventuring
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson
16 Jun 10Overload
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival
10 Jun 10Switching off
BOOKS | What went wrong for Kevin Rudd? Judith Brett reviews David Marr’s Quarterly Essay
08 Jun 10