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Books & arts Rewriting the script Sara Dowse 25 July 2019 Books | Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse 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 Muddy reality Zora Simic 14 June 2019 What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions? 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 A story that refuses to accept its own moral Tom Greenwell 17 April 2019 Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination? 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