Slow motions: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Cry Macho’
Despite patient filmmaking, the 91-year-old director’s elegiac feature is unable to escape the legend of the manAugust 2014
Arts & Letters
Virtually pointless
The 'Augmented Australia' app in action. © Alexander Mayes Photography
The truth about truth-telling
Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people
An epic troll
Who is the government’s “anti-troll” law actually designed to protect?
The fossil-fuel industry’s grip on Australian hearts and minds
Is there hope that public misconceptions of the importance of coal and gas can be overcome?
Troubled souls
David Gulpilil brings Rolf de Heer’s ‘Charlie’s Country’ alive, but Nick Cave can’t save Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s ‘20,000 Days on Earth’
Crazy pills
Our obsession with vitamins is getting out of hand
Supermarket monsters
Coles, Woolworths and the price we pay for their domination
Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
The science is clear, but the way forward is not
Oh, carols!
The music of Christmas, from the manger to the chimney
Final sentence: Gerald Murnane’s ‘Last Letter to a Reader’
The essay anthology that will be the final book from one of Australia’s most idiosyncratic authors
New kid on the block: The Kid Laroi
How Australia has overlooked its biggest global music star, an Indigenous hip-hop prodigy
The Bond market: ‘Dune’ and ‘No Time To Die’
Blockbuster season begins with a middling 007 and a must-see sci-fi epic
Plans never imagined: Architect Timothy Hill
The ‘Longhouse’ and the ‘Multihouse’ confirm the director of Partners Hill as the country’s most important and influential architect of the past 30 years
Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event
Walking the Wukalina Walk
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people
Murcutt’s mosque
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it isSlow motions: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Cry Macho’
Despite patient filmmaking, the 91-year-old director’s elegiac feature is unable to escape the legend of the man
End of the road: The Anthony Bourdain documentary ‘Roadrunner’
Morgan Neville’s posthumous examination of the celebrity chef hews close to the familiar narrative
Cricketing institutions are on a sticky wicket
Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones
At the end of our rope
The prime minister’s belated response to death threats against political leaders is a sign of our dangerously hollowed-out politics
