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Books & arts Unfriendly fire Mark Baker 12 July 2023 Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan Books & arts Late bloomer Zora Simic 10 July 2023 Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic Books & arts The incrementalists Sean Kelly 5 July 2023 Is there a case for gradual change in a radical age? Books & arts Russia’s war with the future Jon Richardson 4 July 2023 Underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are existential fears of democracy, diversity, sustainability and the decline of patriarchy

Books & arts Mad for the feathers William McInnes 9 June 2023 A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That? Books & arts Baked into our bricks Zora Simic 7 June 2023 A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation” Books & arts Fire, ash and official secrecy Graeme Dobell 5 June 2023 The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili Books & arts Good story, bad theory Tom Greenwell 2 June 2023 An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it

Books & arts Does anyone have a pencil? Jamie Hanson 27 April 2023 Two men, five books, one film Books & arts Letting loose Zora Simic 26 April 2023 Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues Books & arts Ambiguous embrace Hamish McDonald 3 April 2023 Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific Essays & reportage Women and Whitlam: then, now, and what might come Sara Dowse 24 March 2023 That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s