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Books & arts He’s not the Messiah… Brett Evans 11 December 2015 Books | Paddy Manning’s biography of Malcolm Turnbull reveals a man in a blazing hurry, writes Brett Evans Books & arts Code-breakers Carolyn Holbrook 10 December 2015 Books | Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line Books & arts A touch of amnesia Paddy Gourley 1 December 2015 Books | Laura Tingle is right to say that government must become better at remembering, writes Paddy Gourley, but her argument has memory lapses of its own Books & arts Urban renewal: a user’s guide Jennifer Kent 1 December 2015 Books | The challenge for Australian cities is to introduce fluidity into a landscape often set in concrete, writes Jennifer Kent

Books & arts The knowledge factories Simon Marginson 27 October 2015 Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson From the archive D.H. Lawrence’s Australian experiment Susan Lever 21 October 2015 Kangaroo may be the first truly modern novel written in Australia Books & arts The stylish portraits of May and Mina Moore Anne Maxwell 12 October 2015 Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century From the archive Communist, scientist, lover, spy Klaus Neumann 3 October 2015 The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose

Books & arts Labor’s golden four Ken Haley 21 August 2015 Books | Colour, movement and analysis – Joel Deane delivers all three in his account of Labor’s late nineties comeback in Victoria, writes Ken Haley Essays & reportage Films for the times Brian McFarlane 21 August 2015 Twenty great British films? Brian McFarlane explains how he chose them, and looks at one old and one new National affairs Love among the water hazards Brett Evans 13 August 2015 Julia Gillard drew adulation at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, writes Brett Evans. It was another reminder of questions still hanging over the Labor Party Essays & reportage This glorious moment Stuart Macintyre 12 August 2015 Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…