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Books & arts Richard Johnstone 20 October 2014 Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts Sara Dowse 15 October 2014 Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007? Books & arts Brian McFarlane 23 September 2014 Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 19 September 2014 Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal National affairs Stephen Mills 19 September 2014 Private secretary, chief of staff, enforcer? Stephen Mills looks at the role of the prime minister’s most influential gatekeeper
Books & arts Stuart Macintyre 19 September 2014 Stuart Macintyre reviews a new biography of the titan of Australian newspaper proprietors, David Syme
Books & arts Bill Hannan 11 September 2014 There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools Books & arts Angela Daly 11 September 2014 Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities Books & arts Brett Evans 5 September 2014 Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre Essays & reportage 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 Susan Lever 27 August 2014 Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong
Essays & reportage Adam Nicol 15 August 2014 W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol Summer season Janna Thompson 12 August 2014 Does Christianity’s “original sin” help us understand Western culture in the twenty-first century? Books & arts Ken Haley 7 August 2014 Ben Hills offers a distinctive take on what went wrong for Fairfax, writes Ken Haley Books & arts David Le Couteur 28 July 2014 Why do so many dementia researchers hold to a single theory so fervently? An unsettling new book throws light on entrenched beliefs, writes David Le Couteur
Books & arts Peter Mares 28 July 2014 New visa arrangements make it possible for international students to study and work in Australia for many years without necessarily being on a path to permanent residency, writes…
Retrospective Graeme Dobell 25 July 2014 Will this contest be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash? Books & arts 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 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 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 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 Anna Johnston 27 June 2014 Blending journalism, romance and travelogue, The Great Australian Loneliness crossed a different set of borders during the second world war Books & arts Frank Bowden 20 June 2014 A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre Books & arts Sara Dowse 12 June 2014 Books | Best known for her undercover exposé Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes Sara Dowse Books & arts Emily Crawford 6 June 2014 Emily Crawford reviews Glenn Greenwald’s account of the Snowden affair
Books & arts Stephen Mills 4 June 2014 Paralysed leader or bad advice? Stephen Mills reviews a new account of the Rudd–Gillard government and what it says about the party’s future
Books & arts Mark Baker 3 June 2014 Phillip Schuler’s dispatches from Gallipoli captured the horror and the heroism for Australian readers, writes Mark Baker Essays & reportage 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 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 Maria Tumarkin 21 May 2014 Storytelling may fit the zeitgeist, but there are truths it can’t reach, writes Maria Tumarkin