CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
01 Apr 10Learning from Walmart
BOOKS | Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
29 Mar 10Windschuttle, again
BOOKS | Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations, writes Dean Ashenden
15 Mar 10Soccer by numbers
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”
Scrambling 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 09
