Essays & reportage
26 March 2014
In 2007, Tom Bamforth left post-earthquake Pakistan for a different crisis, the war in Darfur. As he describes in his new book, a whole culture was being lost through…
Books & arts
18 February 2013
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes Tom Bamforth
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
From the archive
14 June 2012
Gertrude Stein’s authoritarian views left her susceptible to Marshal Pétain’s wartime Vichy government
Books & arts
5 June 2012
The Nuremberg trials were not typical of how the Allies dispensed justice after the second world war, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
International
12 April 2012
Researching her new book, Lindsey Hilsum spoke to Libyan women about their role in post-Gaddafi politics
Books & arts
16 February 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews Albrecht Dümling’s study of refugee musicians from Nazism who came to Australia
Essays & reportage
16 December 2011
Graeme Dobell looks at humanitarian intervention in theory and practice
Essays & reportage
7 December 2011
Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak. It’s time for a ceasefire
International
15 September 2011
When drones strike in Pakistan, key questions go unasked and unanswered, writes Tara McKelvey
Books & arts
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary Brian McFarlane rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
National affairs
22 May 2011
Drawing on newly released FOI documents, David Stephens examines a case of over-building in Canberra
Books & arts
23 April 2011
Jill Kitson reviews a new account of the wartime leadership of the diminutive Australian prime minister
National affairs
8 April 2010
The world has nine more steps to take if we’re serious about nuclear disarmament, writes Andy Butfoy
Books & arts
25 February 2010
Matthew Ricketson talks to journalist Mark Danner, in Australia for the launch of his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War
Books & arts
4 December 2009
BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes Hank Nelson
International
25 September 2009
The cold war still hangs over efforts to reduce the world’s nuclear arsenal, writes Andy Butfoy
Essays & reportage
2 June 2009
For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden
National affairs
5 May 2009
Abandoned in the 1960s, “forward defence” makes a disturbing reappearance in the government’s defence white paper, argues Brian Toohey
National affairs
5 May 2009
... and pretty soon you're talking about a very expensive defence white paper. Where will the money come from, asks Geoffrey Barker
International
17 April 2009
Don’t expect a revolution in US foreign policy, writes Andy Butfoy
Books & arts
6 April 2009
Australian soldier and anthropologist David Kilcullen (pictured), who helped design the Iraq surge, has now written a book about how western counter-terrorism must change…