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Essays & Reportage A Margaret Fulton recipe always works Sian Supski 25 July 2019 Published two years before The Female Eunuch, Margaret Fulton’s first cookbook had its own impact Books & Arts The Shakespeare we need Robert White 12 July 2019 Books | Emma Smith’s twenty-first century reading of the bard is open-minded and open-ended Books & Arts The sulphurous intrigue of the past Matthew Ricketson 12 July 2019 Books | The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner Books & Arts The jokes that get away Richard Johnstone 10 July 2019 Books | Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?

Books & Arts North of Capricorn Henry Reynolds 11 June 2019 Books | Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches Books & Arts The second mountaineer Nick Haslam 7 June 2019 Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain Books & Arts The tech god that failed Dominic Kelly 7 June 2019 Books | Something’s amiss, but has communications strategist Peter Lewis nailed it? Books & Arts Australia’s forgotten internationalist David Fettling 31 May 2019 Books | Labor’s Ben Chifley played a key role in breaking down Australia’s fortress mentality

Books & Arts Military mosaic Graeme Dobell 15 April 2019 Books | A former diplomat tells the story of the “talented cross-section” of Fiji’s youth who enlisted in the British Army in 1962 Books & Arts A spectre is haunting the workplace Brett Evans 11 April 2019 Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers Books & Arts The return of the -isms Paul ’t Hart 3 April 2019 How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers Books & Arts A woman interrupted Drusilla Modjeska 3 April 2019 Books | Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London