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Reinventing China
Kerry Brown
20 November 2020
Books
| In the desire to change China do we risk rewriting its history?
Books & Arts
Laden language
Amanda Laugesen
16 November 2020
Books
| Is it only other people who use words offensively?
Books & Arts
A year of living dangerously
Robert Phiddian
13 November 2020
Books
| Like the rest of us, cartoonists lived through a gruelling year
Books & Arts
Carrying the torch
Marilyn Lake
11 November 2020
Books
| Does a distinguished librarian’s defence of archives go far enough?
Books & Arts
Good war, long war, whose war?
Antonia Finnane
9 November 2020
Books
| China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
Books & Arts
On the offensive
Susan Lever
5 November 2020
Books
| Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & Arts
The man who would be president
Peter Browne
3 November 2020
Books
| Journalist Evan Osnos profiles a politician with a half century’s momentum
Books & Arts
The governor-general’s ambush
Mike Steketee
2 November 2020
Books
| What the Palace didn’t do during the 1975 constitutional crisis was as important as what it did
Essays & Reportage
Oriel Gray makes her mark
Michelle Arrow
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
Books & Arts
Carrying on till she’s carried out
Graeme Dobell
27 October 2020
Books
| Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & Arts
English vices
Sara Dowse
21 October 2020
Books
| A pioneering publisher traces her own family’s trajectory
Books & Arts
A story of the twentieth century
Frank Bongiorno
30 September 2020
Books
| The second volume of
Dunera Lives
profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & Arts
The editorial eye
Richard Johnstone
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
Books & Arts
Scales of justice
Rick Sarre
21 September 2020
Books
| Lawyer Andrew Boe’s heartfelt memoir of a life in the law
Books & Arts
Winning votes was the easy part
Nicholas Farrelly
18 September 2020
Books
| The essential Burmese writer of his generation proposes a “new project of the imagination”
Books & Arts
Imaginative affinities
Susan Lever
10 September 2020
Books
| Australian modernist literature looks a little different through an international lens
Books & Arts
Zeitgeist’s man
Edward Aspinall
31 August 2020
Books
| Is there a pattern to the presidency of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo?
Books & Arts
So you want to be prime minister?
Stephen Mills
31 August 2020
Books
| Must the best-laid plans fall victim to bad implementation?
Books & Arts
Encountering the subcontinent
Hamish McDonald
14 August 2020
Books
| History reveals an often-fraught relationship between two parts of the British Empire
Books & Arts
The morality of presidents
Graeme Dobell
12 August 2020
Books
| We can never know the consequences of foreign policy, says the man who coined “soft power.” All we know are the means
Books & Arts
Soldiers, spies and Soviets
Phillip Deery
7 August 2020
Books
| Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
Books & Arts
Imperial lives
Nicholas Thomas
6 August 2020
Books
| Three intersecting figures illuminate an age that is still with us
Books & Arts
The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
Books
| The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & Arts
A writer’s plea for bilingualism
Anne Freadman
31 July 2020
Books
| Are the limits of our language the limits of our world?
Books & Arts
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
Books & Arts
Something somebody wants suppressed
Kieran Pender
21 July 2020
Books
| Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
Books & Arts
The art of advertising
Peter Spearritt
16 July 2020
Books
| An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
Books & Arts
“Spend all your time at your resort”
Brett Evans
16 July 2020
Books
| The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise
Books & Arts
Behind fascist lines
Seumas Spark
15 July 2020
Books
| Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
Books & Arts
Farmer-poet among friends
Susan Lever
14 July 2020
Books
| A new biography traces the works and days of poet David Campbell
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