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Voices off
Tim Rowse
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
Books & arts
We’re not at war. We’re at work
Matthew Ricketson
14 February 2024
Former
Washington Post
editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & arts
Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
Andrew Ford
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & arts
Heritage hunting
Antonia Finnane
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
Books & arts
The younger Menzies
Paul Rodan
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & arts
What a difference a frame makes
Richard Johnstone
23 January 2024
Three photo exhibitions map out different points on the spectrum between reality and art
Books & arts
Making a meal of it
Martha Macintyre
22 January 2024
How technology, migration and population transformed crops, foods and ways of eating
Books & arts
Jagged solitude
Nick Haslam
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & arts
“I have to do something”
Brian McFarlane
15 January 2024
What
One Life
may achieve
Books & arts
China’s underground historians
Linda Jaivin
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians
Books & arts
Writing life
Susan Lever
3 January 2024
A new biography of Frank Moorhouse approaches its subject differently
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Ancient autocrats
Stephen Mills
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
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To Paris, from the land of fire
Sara Dowse
22 December 2023
Newly translated, Azerbaijan-born Banine’s memoirs chronicle her extraordinary early years
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A love gone wrong
Brett Evans
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
Fear of falling
Peter Browne
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
Books & arts
Double-sighted in the deep south
Jim Davidson
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
Books & arts
To have and to hold
Andrew Ford
15 December 2023
It’s not just slimmer royalty payments for his compositions that make our music writer look back wistfully
Books & arts
Domino days
Graeme Dobell
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
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Demythologising the frontier
Larissa Behrendt
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
Books & arts
Face time
Stephen Mills
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
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Minnesota nice
Jane Goodall
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
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A kind of autobiography
Sylvia Martin
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & arts
The old hack who could
Nick Haslam
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
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Writing the history of the present
Mark Edele
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
The biographer’s last word
Patrick Mullins
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
Books & arts
Manhattan’s media piranha
Rodney Tiffen
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
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The spies who went into the cold
Phillip Deery
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
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Blighted affections
Marian Quartly
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
This house of Grieve
Jeremy Gans
7 November 2023
A murder case looks different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
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