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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
Books & Arts
Double-sided mirror
Martha Macintyre
25 January 2023
How anthropology flourished as colonialism began its decline
Books & Arts
Is this the end of globalisation?
John Edwards
25 January 2023
A
Financial Times
columnist says yes, but the figures tell a different story
Books & Arts
Speaking to the world
Rowan Callick
21 January 2023
An account of the fluctuating fortunes of Radio Australia ends on an optimistic note
Books & Arts
With sojourns in Italy
Susan Lever
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & Arts
A museum’s fall guy
Hamish McDonald
20 December 2022
Why was a successful scientist and gifted artist airbrushed out of history?
Books & Arts
“No one dared tell him to stop”
Matthew Ricketson
14 December 2022
In her latest post-election book Niki Savva puts Scott Morrison through the wringer. But has she avoided all the pitfalls of the genre?
Books & Arts
China’s forgotten reformer
Linda Jaivin
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
Books & Arts
Ambivalent in Arnhem Land
Gillian Cowlishaw
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Books & Arts
Cometh the hour
James Walter
9 December 2022
Katharine Murphy’s latest Quarterly Essay probes where politics meets personality
Books & Arts
The slow demise of neoliberalism
John Quiggin
8 December 2022
How the all-conquering movement contained the seeds of its own destruction
Books & Arts
The matriarchs
Emma Lee
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
Books & Arts
Building nothing is not an option
Peter Mares
28 November 2022
An urban sociologist probes the strengths and weaknesses of the “yes in my backyard” movement
Books & Arts
The teal thing
Brett Evans
24 November 2022
Could the success of smart, well-connected candidates realign conservative politics?
Books & Arts
Ashes of empires
Samir Puri
23 November 2022
The author of
Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine
responds to Mark Edele’s review of his book
Books & Arts
“It’s NATO, stupid!”
Mark Edele
22 November 2022
Two new books disagree about the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Books & Arts
Inside the wire
Klaus Neumann
17 November 2022
Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia
Books & Arts
Ecology of extremes
Tom Griffiths
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s
Australian Deserts
— winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Essays & Reportage
The strange career of the great Australian silence
Dean Ashenden
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to
Telling Tennant’s Story
, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Books & Arts
Do leaders matter?
Mark Edele
15 November 2022
It depends, says historian Ian Kershaw
Books & Arts
Ticking like a bomb
Sara Dowse
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
Books & Arts
Smite all humbug
Morag Fraser
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Books & Arts
Illness and identity
Nick Haslam
10 November 2022
The stories we tell ourselves about our mental distress can have unexpected effects
Books & Arts
Eyes spy
Phillip Deery
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & Arts
Agatha’s artefacts
Dennis Altman
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & Arts
The Macarthurs from inside out
Anne-Marie Condé
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & Arts
Vision splendid
Patrick Mullins
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
From the archive
Flowers for Evelyn
Kim Mahood
4 November 2022
In this extract from
Wandering with Intent
, winner of this year’s
Age
Non-fiction Book of the Year award,
Kim Mahood
heads northwest on the Tanami Road
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