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Books & arts A stitch in crime Jeremy Gans 9 July 2025 A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back Books & arts Ghosts of dictatorships past Andrew Bonnell 4 July 2025 Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone Essays & reportage A political world we still inhabit Frank Bongiorno 2 July 2025 Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics Books & arts Reeled in by the Reich Philippa Hawker 1 July 2025 A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany

Books & arts Are we getting in our own way? John Edwards 24 June 2025 The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific Essays & reportage Quincentenary of a revolution Klaus Neumann 17 June 2025 Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights Books & arts Alone like a finger Nick Haslam 13 June 2025 It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays Books & arts Democracy in an age of emergencies Stephen Mills 12 June 2025 Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?

Books & arts How little one knows, really, of one’s parents Caitlin Mahar 26 May 2025 French sociologist Didier Eribon goes in search of his working-class mother Books & arts Ben Chifley versus the banks Stephen Mills 26 May 2025 The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics Books & arts Empire’s end Ken Haley 23 May 2025 Old ties were broken forever by the time the second world war drew to a close Essays & reportage The ecological revolution Tom Griffiths 20 May 2025 How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia