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Books & arts Chock full of chutzpah Brett Evans 13 August 2025 “Go to Australia. Now,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that Books & arts A dose of reality for the “realists” Mark Edele 12 August 2025 Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine Books & arts Moments of exposure Richard Johnstone 10 August 2025 Getting the most out of a photo means focusing on its uniqueness, says photographer Michael Collins Books & arts Australia in the world Graeme Dobell 8 August 2025 An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume

Books & arts Richard Ellmann’s extraordinary achievement Patrick Mullins 11 July 2025 An exhilarating account of a biographer at work Books & arts A stitch in crime Jeremy Gans 9 July 2025 A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back Books & arts Ghosts of dictatorships past Andrew Bonnell 4 July 2025 Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone Essays & reportage A political world we still inhabit Frank Bongiorno 2 July 2025 Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics

Books & arts Something else Sara Dowse 26 June 2025 Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet Books & arts Are we getting in our own way? John Edwards 24 June 2025 The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific Essays & reportage Quincentenary of a revolution Klaus Neumann 17 June 2025 Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights Books & arts Alone like a finger Nick Haslam 13 June 2025 It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays