BOOKS | Scott Ewing reviews Soccernomics, which promises to show “why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, and why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey – and even Iraq – are destined to become the kings of the world’s most popular sport”
15 Mar 10Scrambling out of the debris
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews A Prophet and Precious
25 Feb 10Steering blithely towards the rocks
BOOKS | Judith Brett reviews Fintan O’Toole’s gripping account of the fall of the Celtic Tiger
18 Feb 10Complications
CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output
04 Feb 10Happy birthday, minister
TELEVISION | Yes Minister turns thirty this month. Terry Lane looks back at one of the great British TV comedies
02 Feb 10Always look on the bright side
BOOKS | Brett Evans reviews Barbara Ehrenreich’s book about the dark side of positive thinking, and how it helped create the global financial crisis
09 Dec 09Tracking Kokoda
BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes Hank Nelson
04 Dec 09Reviewing Indigenous history in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
CINEMA | On the eve of the “Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Reviewed” conference at the National Museum of Australia, convenors Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent survey responses to the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
Driven into action
BOOKS | Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering
23 Nov 09The enigma of Chinese modernisation
BOOKS | Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes David Kelly in this review of When China Rules the World
18 Nov 09
