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Books & Arts Letting loose Zora Simic 26 April 2023 Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues Books & Arts Ambiguous embrace Hamish McDonald 3 April 2023 Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific Essays & Reportage Women and Whitlam: then, now, and what might come Sara Dowse 24 March 2023 That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s Books & Arts Writing history in dark places Marian Quartly 23 March 2023 A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children

Books & Arts Autochrome’s intimate legacy Richard Johnstone 9 March 2023 Enthusiasm for this early form of colour photography might have been shortlived, but it left behind many remarkable images Books & Arts The past catches up Graeme Dobell 7 March 2023 An Australian diplomat follows le Carré and Greene among spies and moles Books & Arts Traces of Norman Mailer Patrick Mullins 7 March 2023 Why did Richard Bradford bother writing his biography of the controversial American writer? Essays & Reportage Playing in the grey Ryan Cropp 24 February 2023 A sociologist ventures into a largely hidden financial system beyond the reach of governments and regulators

Books & Arts Mr Sibelius’s feeling for snow Andrew Ford 3 February 2023 Does music really reflect its place of composition? Books & Arts A dictionary for the future Michael Dillon 1 February 2023 The Gija Dictionary opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley Books & Arts One-man intelligence network Stephen Mills 1 February 2023 For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne Books & Arts The war for the soul of America Rodney Tiffen 27 January 2023 The dire state of the Republican Party has decades-old roots