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Trust is a fragile plant
Fergus McIntosh
24 March 2025
The
New Yorker
’s chief fact-checker on how we squint to see more clearly
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
Literary midwifery
Ryan Cropp
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
Books & arts
Frocks, sweat and tears
Diana Bagnall
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
From the archive
The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Essays & reportage
Listening for the future
Deborah Jordan
13 August 2018
Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature
Essays & reportage
Between the covers
Diana Bagnall
20 March 2018
The problems at the Park Street headquarters of Bauer Media are a microcosm of an industry slowly adjusting to a blizzard of change
Books & arts
A few hours with a great writer
Louise Merrington
17 October 2017
Books
| John McPhee’s new guide to the craft of writing is much more than a textbook
Essays & reportage
Kenneth Slessor goes to the movies
Tom O'Regan
4 January 2016
The celebrated poet invented his own way of writing about the films of the early sound era, says
Tom O’Regan
Nairobi’s writers take on a life of their own
Clar Ni Chonghaile
31 May 2012
Kwani Trust is at the forefront of a literary renaissance in Kenya, writes
Clar Ni Chonghaile