Film reviews: The Running Man, Keeper
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man remake stars Glen Powell, mixing high-energy action and nostalgic flair while missing modern political relevance.
By Francisco Silva - 8 min read
Murder at dusk
Only once has a foreign court hanged a man on Australian soil. It is May 1942 and Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling…
By Azal Khan - 1 min read
Eggshell Skull
It can be fascinating to see how many lawyers become great writers. Law graduate-turned writer Bri Lee (her bio says she “is qualified to practise…
By Kate Allman - 1 min read
Rather his own man
Early in the preface to Rather His Own Man, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson maps out the place that this “reliable memoir” should hold among some of…
By Justin Moses - 1 min read
Freedom to libel?
This collection of essays concerns one of the first cases of libel to rock the colony of NSW. R v Campbell [1817] was brought by…
By Neil Foster - 1 min read
Zero hour
Harry S. Dent, Jr. is a Harvard-educated demographer and economic forecaster known for his bestselling books The Great Boom Ahead, The Sale of a Lifetime,…
By Nicholas McGann - 1 min read
Factfulness
When Microsoft chief Bill Gates says a book is the most important he has ever read, it’s time to take notice. And, fortunately, Factfulness is…
By Jane Southward - 1 min read
Consent
Leo Benedictus takes the seemingly harmless pastime of people-watching to a new level in Consent. The beguiling first-person narrative begins with a tone of innocence,…
By Justin Moses - 1 min read
The pastor and the painter
News Corp journalist Cindy Wockner moved to Bali soon after Australians started making news there with the 2002 bombings. Then Schapelle Corby was arrested in…
By Jane Southward - 1 min read
Between us
Set in Darwin, this is a story about the relationship between teenagers Jono and Ana. Jono is a Vietnamese Australian who has recovered from depression…
By Lisa Coady - 1 min read