
The fabulist of Auschwitz
Society
Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction
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The fabulist of Auschwitz
Society
Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction
Not a Dog
The Strangeness of Dingoes
The indigenous King Lear
Aboriginal people
The Shadow King reimagines Shakespeare's tragedy
The Forgotten Ones
Social justice
Half a million lost childhoods
’Canada’ by Richard Ford
Books
I don’t think there’s a single moment of happiness in Richard Ford’s latest novel, Canada. Or joy, mischief or warmth. The word ‘love’ appears a lot in the first of the saga’s three parts, but it doesn’t generate much heat. And …
Rejecting the Centre
Dance
Chunky Move’s Anouk van Dijk
Work and play
Society
Melbourne Zoo at 150
I heart New Yorker
Society
Amelia Lester
Triple zero’s emergency
Society
Why dialling ‘000’ may not save your life
Speech bubbles
Society
Dubious real estate coverage
Lousy science
Society
Lice infestations in Australia
Archive this
Society
“That’s red tape,” said Kate Cumming, a senior project officer at New South Wales State Records, pointing at a 20-centimetre high spool of thin white ribbon. Unravelled, it would run for half a kilometre. “That’s what we use to wrap records …
Primary care
Society
Tim Flannery’s ‘Here on Earth’