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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
Essays & reportage
That woman in trousers
Sylvia Martin
5 October 2020
Remembered in Australia mainly for her relationship with Vida Goldstein, Cecilia John’s story took a different course after the first world war
Essays & reportage
Remembering Susan Ryan
Sara Dowse
2 October 2020
A former colleague recalls working with the reformist Labor minister
Books & arts
A story of the twentieth century
Frank Bongiorno
30 September 2020
Books
| The second volume of
Dunera Lives
profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & arts
The sun also rises
Andrew Ford
9 September 2020
Music
| Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & arts
Zeitgeist’s man
Edward Aspinall
31 August 2020
Books
| Is there a pattern to the presidency of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo?
Essays & reportage
With royalty at Riven Rock
Desley Deacon
18 August 2020
Harry and Meghan’s new home comes with a history of American aristocrats, primate research and the quest for the contraceptive pill
Books & arts
Imperial lives
Nicholas Thomas
6 August 2020
Books
| Three intersecting figures illuminate an age that is still with us
Essays & reportage
Island stories
Frank Bongiorno
29 July 2020
How one family negotiated identities between different Italies
From the archive
What more can we expect?
Susan Lever
21 July 2020
Elizabeth Harrower’s fiction vividly evokes mid-twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
The thoroughly modern politician
Frank Bongiorno
20 July 2020
Books
| Christopher Pyne’s memoir reveals more than he might have intended about the state of Australian politics
Books & arts
“Spend all your time at your resort”
Brett Evans
16 July 2020
Books
| The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise
Books & arts
Strangers in a strange land
Sara Dowse
9 July 2020
Books
| Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
Books & arts
Twin passions
Judith Brett
8 July 2020
Books
| Internationally renowned Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe was also deeply involved in labour politics
Essays & reportage
Nine lives
Brenda Niall
23 June 2020
For one of Australia’s foremost biographers, the impulse to tell life stories has never gone away
Books & arts
Letting go
Yves Rees
10 June 2020
Books
| A riotous reimagining of the trans memoir
Books & arts
The long journey home
Emma Lee
5 June 2020
Books
| A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & arts
Before the triumphs and the tragedies
Norman Abjorensen
2 June 2020
Books
| A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
Books & arts
Adventures in feminism
Zora Simic
20 May 2020
Books
| We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Essays & reportage
“Don’t ever expect anything from me”
Mark Baker
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Books & arts
The Prince
Frank Bongiorno
26 April 2020
Books
| Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
Books & arts
The conditions of art
Susan Lever
22 April 2020
Books
| Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
Dickensian democrat
Norman Abjorensen
15 April 2020
Books
| London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Essays & reportage
The aunt I never knew
Sylvia Martin
13 April 2020
How a daughter’s death caused by Spanish flu sent a family halfway across the globe
Books & arts
Picasso, Dior and the remarkable House of Glass
Sara Dowse
9 April 2020
Books
| A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
Awkward squad
Zora Simic
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
A vernacular intellectual
Tom Griffiths
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
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