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All quiet about the Western Front
Margaret Hutchison
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & arts
Become what you are!
Seumas Spark
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken
Dunera
story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
Everything under heaven
Linda Jaivin
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
Books & arts
In the field
Martha Macintyre
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
Not singing, but being a singer
Andrew Ford
14 May 2021
Who exactly
were
the New Romantics?
Books & arts
A risk-taker in the laboratory
Janna Thompson
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & arts
The self-esteem racket, and other quick fixes
Nick Haslam
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Books & arts
The power and proximity of the dragon
Graeme Dobell
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & arts
Frocks, sweat and tears
Diana Bagnall
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
Books & arts
Letting the repellent in
Patrick Mullins
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
Essays & reportage
The fall of Singapore
Mark Baker
24 April 2021
Extract
| Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation
Books & arts
Balkan polyphony
Sara Dowse
16 April 2021
Books
| The region that gave the world the word “balkanised” proves a fascinating setting for a travel book with a difference
From the archive
Signing up for an invasion
Tom Hyland
16 April 2021
How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
Books & arts
Once a winner
Frank Bongiorno
16 April 2021
A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
Books & arts
What happens next
Zora Simic
10 April 2021
Books
| Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
Essays & reportage
Was Bob Askin corrupt?
Mike Steketee
9 April 2021
With a new book reopening the debate about the one-time NSW premier’s behaviour in office, our correspondent assesses the evidence
Books & arts
Philosophers under siege
Janna Thompson
7 April 2021
Books
| Are reports of philosophy’s death premature?
National affairs
Invisible arrivals
Stuart Macintyre
1 April 2021
The national identities ascribed to Australia’s postwar migrants masked a striking diversity of backgrounds and attitudes
Books & arts
How does one get used to it?
Phillip Deery
1 April 2021
Books
| Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story
Books & arts
“I’m the best of them”
Patrick Mullins
19 March 2021
Books
| Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
Books & arts
Crossing the war-reporting lines
Sara Dowse
5 March 2021
Books
| Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
From the archive
But how liberal was he?
Stuart Macintyre
4 March 2021
David Kemp’s multi-volume history of Australian liberalism continues into the Menzies era
From the archive
Alliance of convenience
Brenda Niall
1 March 2021
Books
| How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
Books & arts
The moral complexity of truth-telling
Tim Rowse
26 February 2021
Books
| Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
From the archive
Sublime morality without the miracles
Janna Thompson
24 February 2021
The afterlife of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
Books & arts
Between the covers
Phillipa McGuinness
12 February 2021
Books
| Big personalities vie with an unforgiving marketplace in this insider’s view of publishing
Books & arts
Foiled expectations
Kerrie Davies
12 February 2021
Books
| Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
Books & arts
Reckless game
Brian McFarlane
11 February 2021
Books
| A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
When great friends are no help
John Edwards
10 February 2021
Books
| Australia’s decision to join the United States in competition with China has backfired damagingly
Books & arts
Monsters are men
Zora Simic
8 February 2021
Books
| A provocative essayist takes stock of “sex panics” and their legacies
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