The avoidable war
Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of historyMay 2020
Arts & Letters
Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’
The Platform
In light of recent events
Who’s preferencing whom?
Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
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The ministry of pandemics
How the spread of the virus revealed our leaders to us
Hillsong’s strange tides
Brian Houston’s Pentecostal movement in an age of climate change and coronavirus
Adam Bandt, the personable hardliner
Where will the Greens’ unusual new leader take the party?
He is risen!
Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
One small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation
A writer unfolded: Elena Ferrante’s ‘In the Margins’
In an essay collection, the mysterious author of the Neapolitan novels pursues the “excessive” to counter patriarchal literature’s dominanceOne small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation
Maturity breach: ‘The Duke’ and ‘Big Bug’
While Roger Michell’s final film pairs Jim Broadbent with Helen Mirren in a dignified, grown-up cinema, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns with a juvenile sci-fi sex-comedy
Hidden pockets: ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ and ‘The House’
Jasmila Žbanić’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica, and an unsettling Netflix stop-motion animation anthology
The princess and the pea soup: ‘Spencer’
Pablo Larraín’s laboured Princess Diana biopic is a future camp classicThe avoidable war
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Remembrance or forgetting?
The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian Silence
Property damage
What will it take for Australia to fix the affordable housing crisis?
