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The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
Books
| The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & arts
A writer’s plea for bilingualism
Anne Freadman
31 July 2020
Books
| Are the limits of our language the limits of our world?
Books & arts
Is this a great American realignment?
Barbara Keys
22 July 2020
Books
| The pandemic and the murder of George Floyd could be breaking down the country’s deep-seated polarisation
Books & arts
Something somebody wants suppressed
Kieran Pender
21 July 2020
Books
| Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
Books & arts
The art of advertising
Peter Spearritt
16 July 2020
Books
| An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
Books & arts
“Spend all your time at your resort”
Brett Evans
16 July 2020
Books
| The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise
Books & arts
Behind fascist lines
Seumas Spark
15 July 2020
Books
| Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
Books & arts
Farmer-poet among friends
Susan Lever
14 July 2020
Books
| A new biography traces the works and days of poet David Campbell
Books & arts
What difference can a healthy building make?
Sarah Barns
13 July 2020
Covid-19 has supercharged concerns about how workplaces — and work patterns — are undermining good health
Books & arts
Strangers in a strange land
Sara Dowse
9 July 2020
Books
| Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
Books & arts
Twin passions
Judith Brett
8 July 2020
Books
| Internationally renowned Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe was also deeply involved in labour politics
Books & arts
In plain sight
Hamish McDonald
24 June 2020
Books
| Is Beijing really waging a successful war against the West?
Books & arts
Survival valley
Callum Clayton-Dixon
24 June 2020
Books
| Historian Mark Dunn is alive to the complexities of early contact in the Hunter region
Summer season
The dictatorship of coffee
Brett Evans
23 June 2020
Books
| We’re not the only ones in the grip of this addictive beverage
Essays & reportage
Nine lives
Brenda Niall
23 June 2020
For one of Australia’s foremost biographers, the impulse to tell life stories has never gone away
Essays & reportage
A better life on Mars
Alexandra Roginski
19 June 2020
A colonial-era novel provides a window onto the ideas that produced our fractured federation
Books & arts
Off-water matters
Hamish McDonald
17 June 2020
Books
| Australia can’t afford to take its nearest neighbours for granted
Books & arts
Letting go
Yves Rees
10 June 2020
Books
| A riotous reimagining of the trans memoir
Books & arts
The long journey home
Emma Lee
5 June 2020
Books
| A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & arts
Literary censorship’s last gasp
Amanda Laugesen
2 June 2020
Books
| A compelling account of a significant cultural moment
Books & arts
Before the triumphs and the tragedies
Norman Abjorensen
2 June 2020
Books
| A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
Books & arts
Decent creatures
Sara Dowse
27 May 2020
Books
| If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & arts
When the market is the policy, housing fails
Peter Mares
25 May 2020
Books
| Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
Books & arts
Adventures in feminism
Zora Simic
20 May 2020
Books
| We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Books & arts
Malaysia’s amazing political rollercoaster
Graeme Dobell
12 May 2020
Books
| Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
Books & arts
Sick of all my kicks
Nick Haslam
30 April 2020
Books
| Should we embrace boredom?
Books & arts
Is this the secret of successful slowing?
John Edwards
29 April 2020
Books
| Declining growth is inevitable in a maturing economy, according to economist Dietrich Vollrath
Books & arts
War by other means
Tom Uren
28 April 2020
Books
|
The Hacker and the State
vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & arts
Frontier thinking
Henry Reynolds
27 April 2020
Books
| Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
Books & arts
Voluntary servitude
Paul ’t Hart
26 April 2020
Books
| Despotism, reinvented, is here to stay (and could be coming our way)
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