Labor’s Green energy plan
Bill Shorten makes a $15 billion pitch to end the climate wars
July 2014
Arts & Letters
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
HarperCollins; $29.99
July 2014
The Windy City is wild and weighty in ‘Widows’
Social commentary and thrills struggle for balance in Steve McQueen’s take on the heist genre
Eddie Perfect goes to Broadway
The Australian composer has two musicals – ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘King Kong’ – opening in New York
Polly Borland’s x-ray vision
The Australian artist in conversation about ‘Polyverse’ at the NGV, Nick Cave and dress-ups
‘The Old Man and the Gun’ and the outlaw Robert Redford
David Lowery’s new film pays too much tribute to the Sundance KidEddie Perfect goes to Broadway
The Australian composer has two musicals – ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘King Kong’ – opening in New York
A bigger, shinier cage: Julia Holter’s ‘Aviary’
A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life
Barron Field and the myth of terra nullius
How a minor poet made a major historical error
‘Killing Commendatore’ by Haruki Murakami
Art, music and mystery abound in the Japanese author’s latest novel
‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion
‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk
Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner
‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton
A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himselfThe Windy City is wild and weighty in ‘Widows’
Social commentary and thrills struggle for balance in Steve McQueen’s take on the heist genrePolly Borland’s x-ray vision
The Australian artist in conversation about ‘Polyverse’ at the NGV, Nick Cave and dress-ups
Cooperation takes a back seat at APEC
As tensions between the US and China rise, it’s getting harder for Australia not to take sides
‘Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist’, an incomplete portrait
This nostalgic documentary about the eminent designer raises more questions than it answers
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