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Have I been excommunicated?
Frank Bongiorno
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
Essays & reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & arts
Beyond the headlines and hashtags
Zora Simic
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
The good life
Janna Thompson
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & arts
Who did he think he was?
Patrick Mullins
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
From the archive
Born survivor
Hamish McDonald
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
Books & arts
If not, try singing it
Zora Simic
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
Menzies the puritan idealist
Ian Hancock
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
Become what you are!
Seumas Spark
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken
Dunera
story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
In the field
Martha Macintyre
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
A risk-taker in the laboratory
Janna Thompson
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
International
The life of an exile
Klaus Neumann
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
Books & arts
Once a winner
Frank Bongiorno
16 April 2021
A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
Books & arts
What happens next
Zora Simic
10 April 2021
Books
| Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
From the archive
French sensations
Zora Simic
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
Essays & reportage
How the world spins
Mark Baker
19 March 2021
Mark Baker
recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Books & arts
“I’m the best of them”
Patrick Mullins
19 March 2021
Books
| Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
Books & arts
Crossing the war-reporting lines
Sara Dowse
5 March 2021
Books
| Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
From the archive
Alliance of convenience
Brenda Niall
1 March 2021
Books
| How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
Books & arts
Between the covers
Phillipa McGuinness
12 February 2021
Books
| Big personalities vie with an unforgiving marketplace in this insider’s view of publishing
Books & arts
Foiled expectations
Kerrie Davies
12 February 2021
Books
| Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
Books & arts
Reckless game
Brian McFarlane
11 February 2021
Books
| A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
The political is the personal
Sara Dowse
5 February 2021
Books
| A freewheeling memoir is less about the author than the people and forces that shaped him
Books & arts
Clipping his own ticket
Michael Gill
8 December 2020
Books
| How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Essays & reportage
Poet, writer, daughter
Cathy Perkins
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
From the archive
The telegram
Anne-Marie Condé
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
Books & arts
The man who would be president
Peter Browne
3 November 2020
Journalist Evan Osnos profiles a politician with a half century’s momentum
Essays & reportage
Oriel Gray makes her mark
Michelle Arrow
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
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
19 October 2020
Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory
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