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University challenge
Ruth Barcan
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
Books & Arts
Can I get a passport with that?
Max Holleran
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
Books & Arts
Neverending story
Peter Marks
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Books & Arts
Freeing Bennelong and Phillip
Alan Atkinson
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & Arts
The one who told them who they were
Nick Haslam
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & Arts
How should we live?
Holly High
18 October 2023
There’s more than one way forward for harried households
Books & Arts
Western civilisation and its discontents
Kate Fullagar
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Books & Arts
Treat the patient, not the x-ray
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
11 October 2023
Individualised medicine promised the world, but can it deliver?
Books & Arts
Lost in the market
Mike Steketee
3 October 2023
The NDIS has been life-changing but also disempowering, according to Micheline Lee
Books & Arts
Machine questions
Julian Thomas
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
Books & Arts
The art of a memoir
Sara Dowse
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
Books & Arts
Anchor wars
Jane Goodall
2 October 2023
Like the desks they sit behind, newsreaders have grown in stature as the medium has evolved
Books & Arts
Time’s quiet pulse
Penny Russell
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Books & Arts
The collaborators
Andrew Ford
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Books & Arts
A dictionary’s foot soldiers
Jim Davidson
27 September 2023
Outsiders were the key to the creation of the
Oxford English Dictionary
Books & Arts
An invasion’s long shadow
Tom Hyland
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
Books & Arts
Life itself
Brian McFarlane
15 September 2023
Past Lives
convincingly explores how the past lives on in the present
Books & Arts
Personality problems
Sidney Bloch and Nick Haslam
11 September 2023
When does a type become a disorder?
Books & Arts
Shades of blue
Zora Simic
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s
Blue
suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & Arts
Clash of the titans
Paul Rodan
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Books & Arts
Other people’s objects
Martha Macintyre
6 September 2023
Adam Kuper’s survey of museums culminates in a plea for “cosmopolitan” institutions
Books & Arts
Anti-globalism’s cauldron
Ruth Balint
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & Arts
Yes, it is funny
Robert Phiddian
5 September 2023
How the comic genius of John Clarke found its anchor
Books & Arts
The master in the desert
Andrew Ford
4 September 2023
The many lives of Noël Coward, playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Books & Arts
Grand days
Susan Lever
1 September 2023
Frank Moorhouse’s first biographer captures a life in motion
Books & Arts
Slapped by reality
Linda Jaivin
1 September 2023
A fascinating examination of the Chinese economy leaves one big question unanswered
Books & Arts
A triumph and a burden
Sylvia Martin
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Books & Arts
Recoding government
Andrew Leigh
30 August 2023
Are governments creating efficient online systems that don’t make us feel stupid?
Books & Arts
What goes up must come down
Brett Evans
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & Arts
Living toughly
Anne-Marie Condé
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
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