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Essays & reportage
The phoenix
Helen Ennis
22 November 2024
Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work
Essays & reportage
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice?
Hamish McDonald
22 November 2024
A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six
International
One country, one system
Mark Baker
22 November 2024
Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong
Books & arts
Bark diplomacy
Marian Quartly
22 November 2024
Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations?
Essays & reportage
Making their political mark
Frank Bongiorno
19 November 2024
How have Australians remembered politics?
Books & arts
Let them not eat Tip Truck Cake
Anne-Marie Condé
31 October 2024
Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the
Women’s Weekly
’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals
Books & arts
“Got a light?”
Jim Davidson
24 October 2024
Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by 1957’s Wolfenden report
Essays & reportage
White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke
Michael Piggott
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
Books & arts
Man in the middle
Paul Rodan
16 October 2024
A new biography assesses the record of Labor’s first prime minister
Books & arts
The impress of war
Gary Werskey
12 October 2024
How Paris’s “Terrible Year” shaped impressionist art
Books & arts
Imperial reckoning
Ann Curthoys
8 October 2024
A new collections of essays critiques a high-profile defence of the British Empire
Books & arts
Mao’s suave controller — or enabler?
Linda Jaivin
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
Essays & reportage
If you want to fix America, fix Detroit
Don Watson
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Books & arts
Where Cook saw a camel
Marian Quartly
16 September 2024
Two journeys up the east coast of Australia
The view from elsewhere
Ronald Reagan didn’t win the cold war
Max Boot
13 September 2024
Myths about the collapse of the Soviet Union are encouraging mistaken policies towards China
Books & arts
War of the worlds
Hamish McDonald
12 September 2024
Silk Road sceptic William Dalrymple argues for the centrality of India in ancient times
Books & arts
Unhealthy ambitions
Mark Edele
12 September 2024
A fine-grained and often funny new history of the Soviet cold war reveals an imperial power promoting itself as a friend of the global liberation struggle
Books & arts
Is it all going to happen again?
Peter Marks
10 September 2024
Dennis Glover turns to twentieth-century history in his call to arms against authoritarian populism
Books & arts
Tomorrow’s women
Barbara Keys
10 September 2024
How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity
Books & arts
The kin red line
Robin Jeffrey
4 September 2024
Excavating family histories in India, Pakistan and Australia
Books & arts
That slippery zeitgeist
Andrew Bonnell
23 August 2024
Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic
Books & arts
Marvellous Melbourne’s Madame Brussels
Marian Quartly
21 August 2024
Historical detective work reveals more of the life of the city’s best-known brothel-keeper
Essays & reportage
The best kind of troublemaker
Catherine Kevin
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Books & arts
The rhythm of life
Andrew Ford
13 August 2024
How do you pack the history of music into less than fifty thousand words?
Books & arts
Beyond Chinese Taipei
Antonia Finnane
6 August 2024
A Taiwan-centred history of the island reveals a nation-in-the-making
Essays & reportage
Parliament makes history
Frank Bongiorno & Joshua Black
6 August 2024
Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on 6–7 August 1974
Essays & reportage
“The election that never was”
Jenny Hocking and Allison Cadzow
5 August 2024
Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a double dissolution election paid off for key legislation
Essays & reportage
Joseph Banks and the stolen skulls
Cassandra Pybus
1 August 2024
Behind William Crowther and other controversial colonial-era figures was the collector
par excellence
Books & arts
The poets’ war
Patrick Mullins
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
Reframing Gauguin
Kate Fullagar
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
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