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From the archive What more can we expect? Susan Lever 21 July 2020 Elizabeth Harrower’s fiction vividly evokes mid-twentieth-century Australia Books & arts Iannucci gets inside Dickens Brian McFarlane 10 July 2020 Cinema | An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling Books & arts Deeper truths Susan Lever 6 April 2020 Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate? Books & arts Emma rules again Brian McFarlane 6 March 2020 Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic

Correspondents Anna Burns, a Booker with soul David Hayes 17 October 2018 The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift National affairs Stranger than fiction Graeme Smith 10 October 2018 Two journalist–novelists compare notes on Chinese espionage Books & arts Writers over America Susan Lever 25 September 2018 Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction Books & arts The man and his city Shane Maloney 30 August 2018 From the archive | Shane Maloney surveys the career of one of Sydney’s best-known fictional characters and the achievement of his creator, Peter Corris, who died this week

Books & arts Beautiful dystopia Jane Goodall 11 July 2017 Television | Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale makes a mostly smooth transition to the screen Books & arts The sense of an adaptation Brian McFarlane 25 May 2017 Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen Books & arts Reaping what was sown Susan Lever 4 May 2017 An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt Books & arts The adaptable Winifred Holtby Brian McFarlane 20 March 2017 Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times