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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
Books & arts
Some of the things we weren’t meant to know about the Dismissal
Paul Rodan
10 November 2015
Books
| The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes
Paul Rodan.
Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted
Books & arts
Leaning back
Sophie Black
10 November 2015
Books
| What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes
Sophie Black
Books & arts
Scaling King Lear
Brian McFarlane
5 November 2015
Books
| An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes
Brian McFarlane
, and a new book…
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
Crusader or conspirator?
Bruce Duncan
24 September 2015
Books
|
Bruce Duncan
reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
Books & arts
The congenial candidate
Norman Abjorensen
21 September 2015
Books
| Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message?
Norman Abjorensen
reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
China’s continental dreams
Graeme Smith
18 September 2015
Books
|
Graeme Smith
compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific
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