Books & Arts
3 September 2021
The Chair’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
Books & Arts
23 August 2021
TV is having trouble explaining the unexplained
Books & Arts
30 July 2021
Would Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s latest series benefit from a little more reality?
Books & Arts
9 July 2021
With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented
Books & Arts
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & Arts
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
Books & Arts
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & Arts
30 April 2021
Our reviewer follows Greta Thunberg’s 2019 journey
From the archive
26 February 2021
Television | Two Danish crime series probe everyday darkness
Books & Arts
3 February 2021
Television | The coverage of events in Washington was a study in contrasts
From the archive
1 February 2021
Television | Bridgerton isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
Books & Arts
14 December 2020
Television | The highs and occasional lows of Four Corners’ coverage of 2020
Books & Arts
28 November 2020
Television | The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Books & Arts
8 October 2020
Television | The Comey Rule reminds us that there’s no such thing as a bombshell in the Trump era
From the archive
24 September 2020
Is television satire working anymore?
Books & Arts
24 August 2020
Television | The drama is in the detail of this compelling dramatisation of the Salisbury poisonings
Books & Arts
18 August 2020
Television | The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel finds hope in the face of an eye-watering planetary deficit
Books & Arts
28 July 2020
Television | War of the Worlds had the potential to hold up a mirror
Summer season
17 July 2020
Television | HBO’s prequel sets the legendary lawyer off on a long road
Books & Arts
27 June 2020
Television | Filmmaker Warwick Thornton turns the camera on himself
Books & Arts
4 June 2020
Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
Books & Arts
4 June 2020
Television | Does Road to Now’s attempt to find connections simply show that things fall apart?
Books & Arts
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & Arts
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own
Books & Arts
21 April 2020
A second selection of the best locked-down television
Books & Arts
10 April 2020
Our critic’s selection of the best of locked-down television
Books & Arts
23 March 2020
Television | Stateless points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
Summer season
28 February 2020
Television • At heart, Homeland is a drama of loyalty and betrayal
Books & Arts
5 February 2020
Television | Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
Essays & Reportage
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?