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Tomorrow’s women
Barbara Keys
10 September 2024
How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity
Books & arts
Down the rabbit hole
Jane Goodall
9 September 2024
Drawing on experiences of personal threat, three women probe the world of online conspiracies
Books & arts
Speak, memory
Nick Haslam
5 September 2024
Gideon Haigh explores a “submerged continent”
Books & arts
Remaking citizenship
Marilyn Lake
4 September 2024
Campaigners have repudiated “maternal citizenship” in favour of a continuing quest for “sexual citizenship”
Books & arts
The kin red line
Robin Jeffrey
4 September 2024
Excavating family histories in India, Pakistan and Australia
Books & arts
In Germany, “it’s not over yet”
Klaus Neumann
30 August 2024
An 800-page book and a four-hour film raise uncomfortable questions about an enduring Nazi past
International
Lords of the wasteland
Hamish McDonald
30 August 2024
A military analyst and an economist see Myanmar’s junta heading towards a desperate fight for survival
Books & arts
Breaking better
Nick Haslam
28 August 2024
A compelling exploration of mental distress moves beyond psychiatric categories
Books & arts
Hawke agonistes
Brett Evans
27 August 2024
The making of a paradoxical prime minister
Books & arts
That slippery zeitgeist
Andrew Bonnell
23 August 2024
Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic
Books & arts
Marvellous Melbourne’s Madame Brussels
Marian Quartly
21 August 2024
Historical detective work reveals more of the life of the city’s best-known brothel-keeper
Books & arts
The rhythm of life
Andrew Ford
13 August 2024
How do you pack the history of music into less than fifty thousand words?
Books & arts
Revisiting John Berger
Jane Goodall
12 August 2024
The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends
Essays & reportage
Angels and demons
Mark Baker
8 August 2024
The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany
Books & arts
Beyond Chinese Taipei
Antonia Finnane
6 August 2024
A Taiwan-centred history of the island reveals a nation-in-the-making
Books & arts
Time, gentlemen
Jock Given
5 August 2024
Have we reached “Peak Djokovic”?
Books & arts
Reading the play
Richard Evans
2 August 2024
How the World Game restored my love of literature
Books & arts
Greater than Brittany
Jim Davidson
30 July 2024
Novelist Andrew O’Hagan’s incisive account of contemporary London
Books & arts
The poets’ war
Patrick Mullins
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
Upwardly mobile
Martha Macintyre
22 July 2024
PNG locals responded with ingenuity as Digicel fuelled a fast-expanding mobile market
Books & arts
Reframing Gauguin
Kate Fullagar
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
Essays & reportage
How far we’ve come, and how far we haven’t
Dean Ashenden
10 July 2024
Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning
Books & arts
Marinating in liberalism
Peter Mares
6 July 2024
Can this philosophical tradition offer a blueprint for a just society?
Books & arts
Powerful perpetrators
Denis Muller
3 July 2024
Anne Manne illuminates Newcastle’s web of child-abuse perpetrators, enablers and bystanders
Books & arts
Fear and loathing in the American alliance
Hamish McDonald
3 July 2024
Australia is sleepwalking into a strategic and logistical mess
Books & arts
Why did Australia reject the Voice?
Tim Rowse
28 June 2024
Three books, two articles and a report offer a range of explanations
Books & arts
Indecisive moments
Richard Johnstone
25 June 2024
AI photos are there aplenty, but who is slowing down to look at them?
Books & arts
Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter
Zora Simic
21 June 2024
How did people go missing in a historian’s family?
Books & arts
Brutal birth
Hamish McDonald
20 June 2024
Indonesia’s emergence was both more violent and more pioneering than commonly imagined
Books & arts
Loves of her life
Sylvia Martin
20 June 2024
Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
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