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Essays & reportage
Oriel Gray makes her mark
Michelle Arrow
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
Books & arts
Carrying on till she’s carried out
Graeme Dobell
27 October 2020
Books
| Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & arts
English vices
Sara Dowse
19 October 2020
Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory
Books & arts
A story of the twentieth century
Frank Bongiorno
30 September 2020
Books
| The second volume of
Dunera Lives
profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & arts
The editorial eye
Richard Johnstone
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
Books & arts
Scales of justice
Rick Sarre
21 September 2020
Books
| Lawyer Andrew Boe’s heartfelt memoir of a life in the law
Books & arts
Winning votes was the easy part
Nicholas Farrelly
18 September 2020
Books
| The essential Burmese writer of his generation proposes a “new project of the imagination”
Books & arts
Imaginative affinities
Susan Lever
10 September 2020
Books
| Australian modernist literature looks a little different through an international lens
Books & arts
Zeitgeist’s man
Edward Aspinall
31 August 2020
Books
| Is there a pattern to the presidency of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo?
Books & arts
So you want to be prime minister?
Stephen Mills
31 August 2020
Books
| Must the best-laid plans fall victim to bad implementation?
Books & arts
Encountering the subcontinent
Hamish McDonald
14 August 2020
Books
| History reveals an often-fraught relationship between two parts of the British Empire
Books & arts
The morality of presidents
Graeme Dobell
12 August 2020
Books
| We can never know the consequences of foreign policy, says the man who coined “soft power.” All we know are the means
Books & arts
Soldiers, spies and Soviets
Phillip Deery
7 August 2020
Books
| Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
Books & arts
Imperial lives
Nicholas Thomas
6 August 2020
Books
| Three intersecting figures illuminate an age that is still with us
From the archive
The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
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
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