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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 The shock of the old Joe Rollo 27 March 2018 Books | Australia’s experimental domestic architecture of the 1950s and 60s still challenges mainstream design Essays & reportage Haunted country Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England Books & arts The not-so-tragic commons Jane Goodall 12 March 2018 Books | Following in the footsteps of Nobel prize-winner Elinor Ostrom, two new books make the argument for public property and the public good

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? Books & arts Getting along Janna Thompson 16 January 2018 Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book Books & arts An Iced VoVo and a broken heart Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership Books & arts Writers writing about writers and writing Susan Lever 18 December 2017 Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers

Books & arts Making sense of crime Rick Sarre 16 November 2017 Books | A former adviser to Tony Blair tackles conventional views of crime and its causes Essays & reportage Historians’ disgrace? Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case? From the archive A small cedar box Brenda Niall 3 November 2017 Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past Books & arts A few hours with a great writer Louise Merrington 17 October 2017 Books | John McPhee’s new guide to the craft of writing is much more than a textbook