It’s not often that one gets to read a history that speaks to one’s most private memories, one’s sense of self. This week I have read...
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley have offered a needed reality-check on the eve of next week’s UN session on the Gaza war, which will be defined...
Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The...
Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of a relationship she had in her early twenties...
Over the past couple of years sophisticated and informed critiques of Australia’s security policies have become increasingly common. Unfortunately, however, there seems to be an inverse...
At the risk of oversimplification, there are two Jewish responses to the current devastation in Palestine: the tribal and the humanist. Sadly we have witnessed many...
Not being clairvoyant, I can’t tell you how the Democratic primary electorate or the broader public will react to the revelations in Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir,...
Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s...
Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s...
Nearly eighty years ago, smarting from sharp criticisms of the still-young opinion polling industry, America’s pre-eminent pollster devised a “quintamensional plan” to improve the quality of...