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Books & arts Lady Mary’s experiment, and other infectious stories Frank Bowden 18 August 2023 Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague Books & arts The first succession… and its consequences Tom Greenwell 15 August 2023 Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire Books & arts Enigmatic pariah Hamish McDonald 10 August 2023 Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping Books & arts Northeastern Canada’s self-governing Inuit Harry Hobbs 10 August 2023 The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions

Books & arts Lives in motion Brian McFarlane 2 August 2023 Driving Madeleine reviewed Books & arts Eye of the storm Linda Atkins 2 August 2023 How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about? Books & arts How the machine works Sean Scalmer 31 July 2023 Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock Books & arts A reservoir of possibilities Holly High & Joshua O. Reno 28 July 2023 David Graeber’s latest book isn’t his best, but still we love it

Books & arts Buckle and strain Patrick Mullins 14 July 2023 In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own? Books & arts The self-fashioning of George Orwell Peter Marks 13 July 2023 A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be Books & arts Memoirs of a Middle East tragic Graeme Dobell 12 July 2023 A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world Books & arts Unfriendly fire Mark Baker 12 July 2023 Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan