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Books & arts Brown sauce in Edinburgh, vinegar in Glasgow Angela Daly 11 September 2014 Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities Books & arts What makes them run? Brett Evans 5 September 2014 Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre Essays & reportage Venice, washed by many pasts R.J.B. Bosworth 27 August 2014 Duplicitous, pure, dream-like, artificial, psychopathic, unpredictable? Beneath the overheated commentary about Venice, there’s a real city, writes R.J.B. Bosworth Books & arts Character studies Susan Lever 27 August 2014 Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong

Books & arts Different diagnoses, different cures Tom Westland 23 July 2014 Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently Books & arts Virtuous cycling on the job Helena Liu 23 July 2014 Can work be good for employees and employers? Helena Liu reviews a new book that wrestles with problems of workplace organisation, but doesn’t go quite far enough From the archive The rise and fall of Labor’s first party professional Stephen Mills 21 July 2014 Cyril Wyndham, the energetic, reformist outsider, changed forever the way Labor organised itself federally. And then he paid the price International China’s Godfather? Kerry Brown 18 July 2014 A controversial new biography of Xi Jinping fundamentally misunderstands the nature of China’s leadership, argues Kerry Brown

Essays & reportage How Thomas Piketty found a mass audience, and what it means for public policy John Quiggin 30 May 2014 Thomas Piketty’s phenomenally successful Capital confirms that Western countries are becoming less equal. John Quiggin looks at how he fits into a… Books & arts How it all went wrong Andrew Dodd 28 May 2014 Philip Chubb’s insider account of the demise of Kevin Rudd’s climate scheme is essential reading, says Andrew Dodd Essays & reportage This narrated life Maria Tumarkin 21 May 2014 Storytelling may fit the zeitgeist, but there are truths it can’t reach, writes Maria Tumarkin Books & arts New Zealand as a refuge: half-myths and partial realities David Pearson 8 May 2014 David Pearson reviews a careful but challenging account of New Zealand’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers