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Books & Arts The journo who never got away Michael Cannon 5 June 2018 Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir Books & Arts Neither here nor there Brian McFarlane 30 May 2018 Extract | Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game Books & Arts Australian diplomacy’s creation story Graeme Dobell 23 May 2018 Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world Books & Arts The war inside our bodies Sara Dowse 22 May 2018 Books | Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)?

Books & Arts Hold your fire Julie Shiels 9 April 2018 Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid? Books & Arts What counts, and what gets counted Carmela Chivers 4 April 2018 Books | The quest to quantify the performance of our most important institutions can backfire, but what other choice do we have? Essays & Reportage Her childhood friends Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett Books & Arts How Melbourne became cool again Alan Davies 27 March 2018 Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s?

Books & Arts A losing game? Social democracy’s trial by ordeal Frank Bongiorno 11 February 2018 Books | Centre-left parties are struggling everywhere. Can they adapt? Books & Arts A sort of farewell Richard White 2 February 2018 Books | This new edition of John Rickard’s pathbreaking book is a reminder that he anticipated many of the concerns of subsequent generations of historians Books & Arts Was Derek Freeman “mad”? Martha Macintyre 28 January 2018 Review essay | The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes Books & Arts How the public interest went missing in action Carmela Chivers 22 January 2018 Books | Is the US economy suffering from an overriding malady — and could Australia become infected?