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Books & arts
Funny things happened on the way to the Forum
Brett Evans
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
Books & arts
A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
Tim Rowse
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & arts
Being David Gulpilil
Brian McFarlane
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & arts
Who did he think he was?
Patrick Mullins
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
Books & arts
Northern light on Australia’s future
Ian McAuley
2 July 2021
The Nordic countries show how economies can be run differently
Books & arts
The myth of merit
Peter Mares
25 June 2021
Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality
Books & arts
Who are we?
Jane Goodall
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & arts
Sydney’s modernist wave
Meg Brayshaw
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
The teller and the tale
Tim Rowse
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s
Dark Emu
Books & arts
On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
Nick Haslam
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
Books & arts
If not, try singing it
Zora Simic
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
Toora loo rye ay
Andrew Ford
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s
Wakefield
Books & arts
Gloves off
Carolyn Collins
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & arts
Menzies the puritan idealist
Ian Hancock
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
Holding on
Brian McFarlane
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & arts
Location, location, location
Jane Goodall
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown
shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & arts
Metamorphosis
Peter Singer
31 May 2021
Why the world needed a new edition of
The Golden Ass
Books & arts
Killing the cop in your head
Declan Fry
25 May 2021
Forty ways of looking at Veronica Gorrie’s
Black and Blue
Books & arts
“Better to lose Australia”
Mark Edele
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
Books & arts
Spy versus spies
Stephen Mills
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & arts
Beijing blackout
Mark Baker
21 May 2021
The departure of Australia’s last correspondents from Beijing has made a volatile situation worse
Books & arts
Covid’s political
co-morbidities
Rodney Tiffen
21 May 2021
With populists emerging badly from the pandemic, public opinion could be shifting in favour of good government
Books & arts
At a hinge point in history
Jane Goodall
19 May 2021
Stan Grant distils his travels into an argument about the future
Books & arts
All quiet about the Western Front
Margaret Hutchison
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & arts
Become what you are!
Seumas Spark
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken
Dunera
story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
Everything under heaven
Linda Jaivin
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
Books & arts
In the field
Martha Macintyre
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
Not singing, but being a singer
Andrew Ford
14 May 2021
Who exactly
were
the New Romantics?
Books & arts
A risk-taker in the laboratory
Janna Thompson
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & arts
The self-esteem racket, and other quick fixes
Nick Haslam
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
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