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Essays & reportage
Burying Margaret Mead
Felicity Wade
2 June 2016
Labor seemed the obvious place to mobilise broader support for strong climate change policies, writes former Wilderness Society staffer
Felicity Wade
Books & arts
On literary awards
Susan Lever
30 May 2016
Australia’s array of awards shows there are good and bad ways of recognising great writing, argues
Susan Lever
Books & arts
Uncommonly good?
Frank Bongiorno
23 May 2016
Books
| He’s level-headed, dogged and hard-working, writes
Frank Bongiorno
. And maybe that’s enough, whether Labor wins or not
Books & arts
The battle for India’s soul
Bob Smith
20 May 2016
Books
| Two new books throw light on the social and religious forces swirling around Narendra Modi’s Indian government, writes
Bob Smith
Books & arts
The baritone’s party piece
Andrew Ford
10 May 2016
Music
| Each singer must find his own voice for Peter Maxwell Davies’s best-known work, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Believers, doubters and disbelievers
Janna Thompson
20 April 2016
Books
| Transcendence, meaning, social purpose: religion has gripped a remarkable range of thinkers, says
Janna Thompson
Books & arts
On the brink of war
Brian McFarlane
20 April 2016
Books
| Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
Untangling a new era for land rights
Michael Dillon
15 April 2016
Books
| The land rights debate has entered a new era, writes
Michael Dillon
, and Leon Terrill is an informed and engaging guide
Books & arts
How they invented the prime minister
Norman Abjorensen
8 April 2016
Books
| The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century, writes
Norman Abjorensen
Books & arts
An “ordinary guy” in extraordinary times
Tom Hyland
1 April 2016
Books
| David Kilcullen helps us make sense of the madness unleashed by Islamic State, writes
Tom Hyland.
But he’s less convincing about what we should do next
Books & arts
Pride and Prejudice in the warzone
Jane Goodall
24 March 2016
Television
| It’s
War and Peace
’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes
Jane Goodall
. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts
Intimate histories
Carolyn Holbrook
21 March 2016
Books
| Anna Clark gives academic historians plenty to think about, writes
Carolyn Holbrook
Books & arts
The legends of John le Carré
Peter Love
17 March 2016
Adam Sisman’s biography of the prolific writer highlights the fine line between stories and lies, writes
Peter Love
Essays & reportage
Victims and suspects: the catch-22 of being a Muslim woman in Australia
Shakira Hussein
10 March 2016
Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
Essays & reportage
The wicked problem of alcohol management
Mark Moran
10 March 2016
As the experience of the Queensland community of Kowanyama shows, implementation – rather than the media, politicians or the public service – is the engine room of Indigenous…
From the archive
Who’s counting?
Bronwyn Carlson
8 March 2016
Identifying and acknowledging an Aboriginal lineage can be a complex and challenging process
Books & arts
A father, a son, and two wars
Meg Gurry
1 March 2016
Books
|
Meg Gurry
reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace
Books & arts
Hindesight, 2016
Sylvia Lawson
29 February 2016
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
views
Looking for Grace
through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film
From the archive
Revolutionary idling
Janna Thompson
2 February 2016
Bertrand Russell’s classic raises old questions about new problems
Books & arts
Jonathan Coe’s “Number 11”: art vs politics
David Hayes
12 January 2016
A multilayered portrait of divided Britain is trapped by its animating spirit
Essays & reportage
The accidental prime minister
Norman Abjorensen
23 December 2015
Circumstances propelled the gregarious John Gorton into the top job, but the party termites quickly got to work
Books & arts
Forgotten voices
Greg Lehman
21 December 2015
Books
| Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes
Greg Lehman
Books & arts
The education of Dr K.
Graeme Dobell
17 December 2015
Books
|
Graeme Dobell
reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
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
Close quarters
Susan Lever
23 November 2015
Books
| Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes
Susan Lever
. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena
Books & arts
The rise of the antibiotic reformers
Ben Wade
19 November 2015
Books
| Through agitation, confrontation, persuasion and legislation a group of reformers helped shape today’s medical landscape, writes
Ben Wade
Books & arts
The biggest stage
Brett Evans
12 November 2015
Books
|
Brett Evans
follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street
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