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Correspondents Cancelling Bismarck Klaus Neumann 18 November 2020 Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene” Essays & Reportage Washington’s winter war Eric Rauchway 17 November 2020 A national crisis, an acrimonious election, a recalcitrant president — how Herbert Hoover delayed America’s recovery from the Great Depression Essays & Reportage Arm-to-arm combat Michael Bennett 13 November 2020 How the world’s first vaccine came to Australia… in 1804 Books & Arts Carrying the torch Marilyn Lake 11 November 2020 Books | Does a distinguished librarian’s defence of archives go far enough?

Books & Arts A story of the twentieth century Frank Bongiorno 30 September 2020 Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles twenty men, each remarkable in his own way Essays & Reportage “Before Noumea, there was only London, Washington and Ottawa” Nic Maclellan 18 September 2020 Eighty years after helping defend New Caledonia against Japan, Australia is mobilising to counter another rising Asian power National Affairs States of emergency Mark Finnane 10 September 2020 Could the debate over states’ rights to close their borders have been resolved a century ago? Essays & Reportage Memorialising Captain Cook in lonely places Alessandro Antonello 3 September 2020 An exchange of memorials illustrates how Cook has been remembered and misremembered

Books & Arts “Spend all your time at your resort” Brett Evans 16 July 2020 Books | The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise Books & Arts Behind fascist lines Seumas Spark 15 July 2020 Books | Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war National Affairs “I think you are playing the ‘Vice-Regal’ hand with skill and wisdom” Mike Steketee 15 July 2020 The Queen’s private secretary walked a very fine line during the months leading up to the dismissal Essays & Reportage Black loves matter Gillian Cowlishaw 14 July 2020 During the “great Australian silence” the corridors of power were full of talk about the dangers of interracial intimacy