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Books & arts
How Hamas hardened
Peter Rodgers
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
Books & arts
From deserts the profits come
Jim Davidson
11 September 2025
Universities and the assault on cultural infrastructure
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The sound of music
Andrew Ford
10 September 2025
Melody, rhythm, lyrics, arrangements: it’s the sonority of familiar music that we carry with us
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King hit
Philippa Hawker
9 September 2025
Spike Lee’s new movie, now streaming, is a drama about music, mayhem and moral dilemmas
Books & arts
All the lonely people
Nick Haslam
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness
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Friends like these
Alecia Simmonds
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
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Must all monuments fall?
Martha Macintyre
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
Cheer treatment
David Goodman
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Books & arts
Pluralism exists; we just need to accept it
Harry Hobbs
27 August 2025
The European Union’s relations with its member states could help us navigate the process of treaty-making
Books & arts
An exceptional life in the law
Dean Ashenden
21 August 2025
Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly”
Books & arts
How The Leopard changed its spots
James Panichi
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
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Living recipes
Seumas Spark
14 August 2025
Collaboration is reconciliation, say the authors of
The Australian Ingredients Kitchen
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If something can’t go on forever, it will stop
John Quiggin
14 August 2025
A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates
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Chock full of chutzpah
Brett Evans
13 August 2025
“Go to Australia.
Now
,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that
Books & arts
A dose of reality for the “realists”
Mark Edele
12 August 2025
Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine
Books & arts
Moments of exposure
Richard Johnstone
10 August 2025
Getting the most out of a photo means focusing on its uniqueness, says photographer Michael Collins
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Australia in the world
Graeme Dobell
8 August 2025
An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume
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The stories we tell about ourselves
Stephen Young
6 August 2025
What drives conspiracy theories?
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Eighty-nine seconds and counting…
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
6 August 2025
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s campaign against nuclear annihilation
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Circling the manosphere
Nick Haslam
30 July 2025
A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview
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Boulez at 100, the Proms at 130
Andrew Ford
24 July 2025
This year’s BBC Proms celebrate composer, conductor and audience favourite Pierre Boulez
Books & arts
1155 days in the life of Cheng Lei
Hamish McDonald
23 July 2025
Australia’s latest book by a former political prisoner paints a vivid picture of survival inside one of China’s state security jails
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A post-American world
Graeme Dobell
22 July 2025
The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder
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A kind of proto selfie
Richard Johnstone
18 July 2025
Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation
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How to resist a tyrant
Linda Jaivin
18 July 2025
If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet
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Richard Ellmann’s extraordinary achievement
Patrick Mullins
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
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A stitch in crime
Jeremy Gans
9 July 2025
A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back
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Grave misgivings
Philippa Hawker
8 July 2025
In
The Shrouds
, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy
Books & arts
Ghosts of dictatorships past
Andrew Bonnell
4 July 2025
Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
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The reformer
Emily Millane
4 July 2025
As Labor signals greater boldness, a seasoned policymaker and former MP describes how it’s done
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