I write this on my return from Carlton’s Cinema Nova, where Paul Barclay, presenter of Radio National’s Big Ideas, was discussing a recently published memoir, A...
Reading the well-known English satirist Craig Brown’s latest book, A Voyage around the Queen, I’m struck again by how, in terms of symbolic theatre, republics pale...
The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary...
On picking up a copy of Lauren Samuelsson’s A Matter of Taste: The Australian Women’s Weekly and Its Influence on Australian Food Culture, some eager readers...
“We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few...
Peter Parker begins the first of a projected three volumes on gay life in London, this one from 1945 to 1959, by quoting the novelist E.M....
Between 1978 and 2012 China achieved the longest period of sustained rapid economic growth in recorded history. Growing at an average annual rate of 10.0 per...