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To have and to hold
Andrew Ford
15 December 2023
It’s not just slimmer royalty payments for his compositions that make our music writer look back wistfully
Books & Arts
Domino days
Graeme Dobell
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
Books & Arts
Demythologising the frontier
Larissa Behrendt
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
Books & Arts
Face time
Stephen Mills
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & Arts
Minnesota nice
Jane Goodall
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
Books & Arts
A kind of autobiography
Sylvia Martin
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & Arts
The old hack who could
Nick Haslam
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & Arts
Writing the history of the present
Mark Edele
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & Arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & Arts
The biographer’s last word
Patrick Mullins
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
Books & Arts
Manhattan’s media piranha
Rodney Tiffen
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Books & Arts
The spies who went into the cold
Phillip Deery
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & Arts
Blighted affections
Marian Quartly
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & Arts
This house of Grieve
Jeremy Gans
7 November 2023
A murder case looked different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
Books & Arts
Too young for dying
Andrew Ford
6 November 2023
The new Rolling Stones album circles back to the band’s earliest days
Books & Arts
Active and ongoing
Alecia Simmonds
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s
Consent Laid Bare
part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & Arts
Being human
Martha Macintyre
4 November 2023
An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples
Books & Arts
Making media moguls
Jock Given
3 November 2023
Weren’t these guys dying out?
Books & Arts
Can generational analysis be saved?
John Quiggin
30 October 2023
A sociologist offers a more sophisticated take on generational differences, but problems remain
Books & Arts
The old codger project
Brett Evans
27 October 2023
Writer John McPhee reveals his secret of longevity
Books & Arts
University challenge
Ruth Barcan
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
Books & Arts
Can I get a passport with that?
Max Holleran
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
Books & Arts
Neverending story
Peter Marks
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Books & Arts
Freeing Bennelong and Phillip
Alan Atkinson
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & Arts
The one who told them who they were
Nick Haslam
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & Arts
How should we live?
Holly High
18 October 2023
There’s more than one way forward for harried households
Books & Arts
Western civilisation and its discontents
Kate Fullagar
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Books & Arts
Treat the patient, not the x-ray
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
11 October 2023
Individualised medicine promised the world, but can it deliver?
Books & Arts
Lost in the market
Mike Steketee
3 October 2023
The NDIS has been life-changing but also disempowering, according to Micheline Lee
Books & Arts
Machine questions
Julian Thomas
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
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