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Books & arts
In the footsteps of the garibaldini
James Panichi
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & arts
Encounters in the Pacific
Robbie Robertson
1 November 2019
An anecdotal journey doesn’t always do justice to the complexity of the region
Books & arts
Getting somewhere or going nowhere? Either prospect is inviting
Jane Goodall
15 January 2018
Television
| Our reviewer is gripped by SBS’s venture into slow TV
Essays & reportage
History, heritage and the ageing dictator
R.J.B. Bosworth
31 October 2013
Uzbekistan is still writing and rewriting its own history, reports a recently returned
R.J.B. Bosworth
Essays & reportage
Loving Europe
Susan Carson
23 October 2013
Charmian Clift’s
Peel Me a Lotus
has inspired Australian women travel writers for over half a century, but the result has been a quite different kind of writing,…
Books & arts
More necessary than life
Richard Johnstone
21 October 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Ella K. Maillart’s account of a remarkable prewar journey across Europe and into Asia
Books & arts
A larger purpose, a larger sense of self
Janine Burke
28 April 2013
Janine Burke
on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art