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Books & arts Fast fashion Sophie Black 26 February 2013 Books | Elizabeth Cline’s three hundred-piece wardrobe makes her an average American consumer Books & arts Well-made music Andrew Ford 21 February 2013 Andrew Ford on the life and work of Lennox Berkeley Books & arts Perfect storms Tom Bamforth 18 February 2013 A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes Tom Bamforth Books & arts Drones in the distance David Stephens 14 February 2013 Western policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on an outdated imperial playbook and a modern but mistaken belief in “surgical strikes,” writes David Stephens

Books & arts What’s in a name? Richard Johnstone 12 January 2013 Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers Books & arts Inside or out? Sylvia Lawson 2 January 2013 New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson Books & arts The sparkle of the miniature Andrew Ford 28 December 2012 Andrew Ford on the life and work of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks Books & arts Two deaths in Venice Glenn Nicholls 18 December 2012 On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication, Glenn Nicholls looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time

Books & arts More than the sum of their parts Andrew Ford 26 October 2012 Nearly 200 years after Beethoven composed the first song cycle, Paul Kelly has unveiled two – an album and a performance at the Melbourne Festival – writes Andrew Ford Books & arts A kind of biography Richard Johnstone 25 October 2012 Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways Books & arts One little piece of earth which is ours Peter Spearritt 15 October 2012 Does every Australian have a right to decent housing? Governments might say so, but they’re not doing much to make it happen, writes Peter Spearritt Books & arts The symbiotic relationship Andrew Ford 15 October 2012 Something interesting happens when a piece of music goes out into the world, writes Andrew Ford