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The art of disagreeing
Jock Given
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
Books & arts
Yes they can (and should)
Paul ’t Hart
16 August 2021
A pragmatist’s vision for better government
Books & arts
Monarchs on my mind
Dennis Altman
16 August 2021
Could constitutional monarchies be the best of a bad lot?
From the archive
The heft of the visual
Sara Dowse
13 August 2021
Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan?
Books & arts
Early childhood economics
Amanda Walsh
10 August 2021
Has business changed the culture of childcare?
Books & arts
Why not appreciate a Bartók… and a Parry?
Andrew Ford
10 August 2021
Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind
Books & arts
Have I been excommunicated?
Frank Bongiorno
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
Essays & reportage
Blood in the water
Nick Richardson
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
Books & arts
The trouble with history
Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe
6 August 2021
The authors of
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & arts
Beyond the headlines and hashtags
Zora Simic
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
Ghosts in the machine
Ellen Broad
5 August 2021
A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
From the archive
New tricks
Nick Haslam
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
From the archive
Who does she think she is?
Brenda Niall
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & arts
The good life
Janna Thompson
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & arts
That elusive je ne sais quoi
Alexis Bergantz
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & reportage
The Great Divide
Bill Gammage
20 July 2021
The debate about
Dark Emu
is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of
The Biggest Estate on Earth
Essays & reportage
Fairfax’s blue team
Tim Burrowes
16 July 2021
Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers
Books & arts
Sea of islands
Alison Bashford
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
National affairs
Bylines and bygones
Margaret Simons
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
Books & arts
Winners take all
Jock Given
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
Essays & reportage
Karachi’s gravitational pull
Samira Shackle
9 July 2021
A journalist returns again and again to Pakistan’s largest city
Books & arts
Funny things happened on the way to the Forum
Brett Evans
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
Books & arts
A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
Tim Rowse
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & arts
Who did he think he was?
Patrick Mullins
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
From the archive
Born survivor
Hamish McDonald
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
Books & arts
The myth of merit
Peter Mares
25 June 2021
Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality
Books & arts
Sydney’s modernist wave
Meg Brayshaw
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
The teller and the tale
Tim Rowse
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s
Dark Emu
Books & arts
On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
Nick Haslam
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
National affairs
Dr X meets his end
Frank Bongiorno
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
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