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Thinking Black
Tim Rowse
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & Arts
Becoming refugees
Klaus Neumann
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Books & Arts
Days of hope
Sara Dowse
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
Books & Arts
Dispatches from a firestorm
Tom Griffiths
16 December 2021
An insider’s account of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 exposes the wider failings of the Morrison government
Books & Arts
Pulped!
Craig Munro
13 December 2021
Why book publishing can be a risky business
Books & Arts
Welcome to the Titanic
Paul ’t Hart
8 December 2021
Andrew Leigh compellingly describes the “black swan” events we could be facing, but are his proposals equal to the threat?
Books & Arts
Thinking by numbers
Janna Thompson
3 December 2021
Can philosophy
really
cure good people of bad thinking?
Books & Arts
Can-do communalism
Hamish McDonald
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
Books & Arts
Good-natured revenge
Susan Lever
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
Books & Arts
Noel Pearson, radical centrist
Tim Rowse
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Books & Arts
Tall-poppy lopping
Patrick Mullins
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
Books & Arts
In the footsteps of the garibaldini
James Panichi
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & Arts
Garner territory
Zora Simic
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
Books & Arts
The outsider
Jane Goodall
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s
This Much Is True
Books & Arts
Alternative histories
Marian Quartly
11 November 2021
Janet McCalman’s new book throws fresh light on Australia’s convict history
Books & Arts
The scalpel and the axe
Robert Phiddian
5 November 2021
Bill Leak’s biographer offers a sympathetic but unflinching account of the controversial cartoonist’s life
From the archive
Inventing “ScoMo”
Sean Kelly
5 November 2021
The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it
Books & Arts
Why we need a Great Forest National Park
Tom Griffiths
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
Books & Arts
Democracy is for losers
Ryan Cropp
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
Books & Arts
Conquered by China
Graeme Dobell
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
From the archive
On being cosmopolitan
Sara Dowse
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
Books & Arts
The death of satire?
Jane Goodall
22 October 2021
Is the pen no longer mightier than the sword?
Books & Arts
What the Romans have done for us
Stephen Mills
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Books & Arts
The Magician’s many guises
Glenn Nicholls
20 October 2021
Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap
Books & Arts
Close listening
Andrew Ford
16 October 2021
Critics Christopher Ricks and Wilfrid Mellers approach music from quite different directions
Books & Arts
A miner meets its match
Andrew Dodd
12 October 2021
How Fortescue Metals Group was bested by a tenacious campaign in the Pilbara
Books & Arts
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Hamish McDonald
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
Books & Arts
Feeding the machine
Susan Lever
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
From the archive
Self and Other
Zora Simic
4 October 2021
In a previously unpublished novel, Simone de Beauvoir traces a life-changing friendship
Essays & Reportage
When Amazon comes to town
Alec MacGillis
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
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