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Books & arts An unknown, an interloper, a feminist Sybil Nolan 5 March 2014 Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia Books & arts A “self-fulfilling, rolling disaster”? Dean Ashenden 5 March 2014 A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes Dean Ashenden Books & arts Digging into the resource curse Michael Gilding 5 March 2014 The life stories of four mining magnates illuminate where Australia’s economy is headed, writes Michael Gilding. The political and social effects could be profound Books & arts Messiaen’s children Andrew Ford 4 March 2014 From Karlheinz Stockhausen to Lalo Schifrin, Olivier Messiaen taught his students how to be themselves

Books & arts It’s about America Sylvia Lawson 6 February 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis Books & arts Picnics and politics Kate Bagnall 24 January 2014 Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Kate Bagnall Books & arts New news is better than no news Scott Bridges 22 January 2014 A new book encourages a different way of thinking about “news" and how it’s presented on television, writes Scott Bridges Books & arts The worst-reported and least-understood foreign conflict in Australian history Tom Hyland 22 January 2014 That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes Tom Hyland

Books & arts A different kind of war Kay Saunders 8 January 2014 Kay Saunders reviews Joan Beaumont’s account of Australia’s first world war Books & arts “When I forget, I’m well. Remembering, even now, I just go crazy” Klaus Neumann 23 December 2013 Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions – that more memory equals more reconciliation – always meet the needs of people affected by widespread… Books & arts Very like, and very unlike Tim Rowse 17 December 2013 As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces Books & arts Why he cared so much Sylvia Lawson 12 December 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Fallout, The Darkside and After May