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Books & arts How The Leopard changed its spots James Panichi 18 August 2025 Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel Books & arts Living recipes Seumas Spark 14 August 2025 Collaboration is reconciliation, say the authors of The Australian Ingredients Kitchen Books & arts If something can’t go on forever, it will stop John Quiggin 14 August 2025 A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates Books & arts Chock full of chutzpah Brett Evans 13 August 2025 “Go to Australia. Now,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that

Books & arts A post-American world Graeme Dobell 22 July 2025 The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder Books & arts A kind of proto selfie Richard Johnstone 18 July 2025 Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation Books & arts How to resist a tyrant Linda Jaivin 18 July 2025 If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet Books & arts Richard Ellmann’s extraordinary achievement Patrick Mullins 11 July 2025 An exhilarating account of a biographer at work

Books & arts Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing Books & arts Dropping out, burning out, tuning out Andrew Dean 27 June 2025 Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies Books & arts Seize the day! Caitlin Mahar 26 June 2025 Classicist Robert Garland leads a tour of ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife Books & arts Something else Sara Dowse 26 June 2025 Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet