Reviews

Playing the game

CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom

18 Aug 10 |

A 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 10 |

Arguing for peace

DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC

22 Jul 10 |

Flashpoint

BOOKS | Norman Abjorensen reviews Mary Heimann’s revisionist history of Prague

13 Jul 10 |

Hollywood economics

BOOKS | Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood

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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 10 |

Count to five and twenty

TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie

24 Jun 10 |

Adventuring

CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson

16 Jun 10 |

Overload

CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival

10 Jun 10 |

Switching off

BOOKS | What went wrong for Kevin Rudd? Judith Brett reviews David Marr’s Quarterly Essay

08 Jun 10 |