Caitlin Mahar teaches history at Swinburne University of Technology. Her latest book, The Good Death Through Time, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2023.
Books & arts
(Not) talking politics
Caitlin Mahar
18 December 2025
Social theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano says the “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t work. But is the alternative any more promising?
Books & arts
Seize the day!
Caitlin Mahar
26 June 2025
Classicist Robert Garland leads a tour of ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife
Books & arts
How little one knows, really, of one’s parents
Caitlin Mahar
26 May 2025
French sociologist Didier Eribon goes in search of his working-class mother
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