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Known unknowns
Jane Goodall
14 December 2020
Television
| The highs and occasional lows of
Four Corners
’ coverage of 2020
Books & Arts
World in motion
Madeline Gleeson
9 December 2020
Books
| From butterflies to humans, migration is essential and unstoppable
Books & Arts
In the Boulangerie
Andrew Ford
9 December 2020
Music
| Dynasties, traditions and the trailblazing teacher-performer Nadia Boulanger
Books & Arts
Tribal markers
Janna Thompson
8 December 2020
Books
| When ethical views come pre-packaged, it’s hard to have productive conversations
Books & Arts
Clipping his own ticket
Michael Gill
8 December 2020
Books
| How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Books & Arts
Tasman bubble
Jock Given
30 November 2020
Books
| The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
Books & Arts
Is it the end of the office as we know it?
Pilita Clark
30 November 2020
Books
| Or are reports of its demise premature?
Books & Arts
The hollow Crown
Jane Goodall
28 November 2020
Television
| The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Books & Arts
Strangers in the dark
Brian McFarlane
26 November 2020
Books
| Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & Arts
A dictionary-maker drills down
Peter Spearritt
26 November 2020
Books
| One of the creators of the
Macquarie Dictionary
ventilates her thoughts on the Australian language
Books & Arts
True stories from the manosphere
Zora Simic
25 November 2020
Books
| How extreme misogyny affects us all
Books & Arts
University challenge
Hannah Forsyth
24 November 2020
Books
| A centenary history reveals how vice-chancellors have negotiated shifts in politics and policy
Books & Arts
Reinventing China
Kerry Brown
20 November 2020
Books
| In the desire to change China do we risk rewriting its history?
Books & Arts
The sorrows of young Joni
Andrew Ford
19 November 2020
Music
| A new set of early recordings reveals again a singer-songwriter in a class of her own
Books & Arts
Laden language
Amanda Laugesen
16 November 2020
Books
| Is it only other people who use words offensively?
Books & Arts
A year of living dangerously
Robert Phiddian
13 November 2020
Books
| Like the rest of us, cartoonists lived through a gruelling year
Books & Arts
Carrying the torch
Marilyn Lake
11 November 2020
Books
| Does a distinguished librarian’s defence of archives go far enough?
Books & Arts
Good war, long war, whose war?
Antonia Finnane
9 November 2020
Books
| China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
Books & Arts
On the offensive
Susan Lever
5 November 2020
Books
| Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & Arts
The man who would be president
Peter Browne
3 November 2020
Books
| Journalist Evan Osnos profiles a politician with a half century’s momentum
Books & Arts
The governor-general’s ambush
Mike Steketee
2 November 2020
Books
| What the Palace didn’t do during the 1975 constitutional crisis was as important as what it did
Books & Arts
There’s no going back
Desley Deacon
30 October 2020
Cinema
| What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Books & Arts
Carrying on till she’s carried out
Graeme Dobell
27 October 2020
Books
| Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & Arts
English vices
Sara Dowse
21 October 2020
Books
| A pioneering publisher traces her own family’s trajectory
Books & Arts
October surprises
Jane Goodall
8 October 2020
Television
|
The Comey Rule
reminds us that there’s no such thing as a bombshell in the Trump era
Books & Arts
Captive keyboard
Andrew Ford
4 October 2020
Music
| Mahan Esfahani wants to rescue the harpsichord from history
Books & Arts
A story of the twentieth century
Frank Bongiorno
30 September 2020
Books
| The second volume of
Dunera Lives
profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & Arts
The editorial eye
Richard Johnstone
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
Books & Arts
Orange man bad!
Jane Goodall
24 September 2020
Is television satire working anymore?
Books & Arts
Scales of justice
Rick Sarre
21 September 2020
Books
| Lawyer Andrew Boe’s heartfelt memoir of a life in the law
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