Books & arts
Modern families
Mary Leahy
8 March 2012
Mary Leahy reviews Rebecca Asher’s investigation of how parenthood is shaped by society
Books & arts
Urban romance
Richard Johnstone
27 February 2012
From the archive | Fifty years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s landmark book, we’re still trying to find our way around the city, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
Vanishing acts
Glenn Nicholls
16 February 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews Albrecht Dümling’s study of refugee musicians from Nazism who came to Australia
From the archive
The diplomat who read Dostoyevsky
Graeme Dobell
8 February 2012
Tormented by self-doubt, regretting missed opportunities, George Kennan helped shape the postwar world
Books & arts
The decadent adventure of life
Darren Tofts
3 February 2012
Darren Tofts reviews a new account of David Bowie’s transformation as the swinging sixties gave way to the glam seventies
Books & arts
A dog of a pamphlet
Brett Evans
21 December 2011
A new series of short books is fighting the wrong kind of war, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
Sameness, likeness and match
Iain Topliss
15 December 2011
Why we don’t – and shouldn’t – speak the same language
Books & arts
The real thing
Richard Johnstone
2 December 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
Books & arts
Hanging by a thread
Richard Johnstone
1 November 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, I Curse the River of Time
From the archive
“I feared I would never be able to write a book again”
Geoff Wilkes
20 October 2011
A bestselling author in the early thirties, Irmgard Keun left Nazi Germany in 1936 only to return during the war
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