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Encountering the subcontinent
Hamish McDonald
14 August 2020
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| History reveals an often-fraught relationship between two parts of the British Empire
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The morality of presidents
Graeme Dobell
12 August 2020
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| We can never know the consequences of foreign policy, says the man who coined “soft power.” All we know are the means
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Soldiers, spies and Soviets
Phillip Deery
7 August 2020
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| Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
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Imperial lives
Nicholas Thomas
6 August 2020
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| Three intersecting figures illuminate an age that is still with us
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The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
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| The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
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A writer’s plea for bilingualism
Anne Freadman
31 July 2020
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| Are the limits of our language the limits of our world?
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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
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Something somebody wants suppressed
Kieran Pender
21 July 2020
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| Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
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The art of advertising
Peter Spearritt
16 July 2020
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| An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
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“Spend all your time at your resort”
Brett Evans
16 July 2020
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| The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise
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Behind fascist lines
Seumas Spark
15 July 2020
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| Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
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Farmer-poet among friends
Susan Lever
14 July 2020
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| A new biography traces the works and days of poet David Campbell
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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
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Strangers in a strange land
Sara Dowse
9 July 2020
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| Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
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Twin passions
Judith Brett
8 July 2020
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| Internationally renowned Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe was also deeply involved in labour politics
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In plain sight
Hamish McDonald
24 June 2020
Books
| Is Beijing really waging a successful war against the West?
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Survival valley
Callum Clayton-Dixon
24 June 2020
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| 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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Off-water matters
Hamish McDonald
17 June 2020
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| Australia can’t afford to take its nearest neighbours for granted
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Letting go
Yves Rees
10 June 2020
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| A riotous reimagining of the trans memoir
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The long journey home
Emma Lee
5 June 2020
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| A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
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Literary censorship’s last gasp
Amanda Laugesen
2 June 2020
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| A compelling account of a significant cultural moment
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Before the triumphs and the tragedies
Norman Abjorensen
2 June 2020
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| A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
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Decent creatures
Sara Dowse
27 May 2020
Books
| If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
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When the market is the policy, housing fails
Peter Mares
25 May 2020
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| Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
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Adventures in feminism
Zora Simic
20 May 2020
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| We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
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Malaysia’s amazing political rollercoaster
Graeme Dobell
12 May 2020
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| Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
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Sick of all my kicks
Nick Haslam
30 April 2020
Books
| Should we embrace boredom?
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