The Nation Reviewed
The Monthly Essays
Sharia Law
Liu Xiaobo
Learning to swim
Damascus
Diaries
Arts & Letters
The glory and the madness of being a ’60s and ’70s Australian pop singer
David Walsh and Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art
Robert Manne on John Howard’s ‘Lazarus Rising’
Aravind Adiga on VS Naipaul’s ‘The Masque of Africa’
Tom Hooper’s ‘The King’s Speech’ and Derek Cianfrance’s ‘Blue Valentine’
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