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Noble Rushdie will not be silenced
Review: "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder", by Salman Rushdie (Penguin, 2024)Having already written an intriguing account of living under sentence of death (Joseph…
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The God in the rubble
Book review: Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942–2022, by Frank Trentmann (Allen Lane, 2023)
On the eve of the First World War, the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch…
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Girt by sea: Redrawing Australia’s mental map
Book Review: Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia’s Security, by Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis (La Trobe Press, 2024)
It’s no secret that in recent years, there has…
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Telling tales about “Civil War”
Civil War has quickly entered the American zeitgeist, and one of the most frequently noted themes in commentary about the film is the opacity of its politics. You would expect…
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Life on Earth: From beginning to end
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Any one-volume history of “an untold story” of the world “from the dawn of time” might be…
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India's turbulent history newly revealed
Review: Crosswinds, by Vijay Gokhale (Penguin Random House India, 2024) and To Raise a Fallen People, by Rahul Sagar (Columbia University Press, 2022).
India’s role on…
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Opium and the colonial narco-state
Book review: Smoke and ashes: Opium’s hidden histories by Amitav Ghosh (Murray, 2024)
Switching for a while from fiction to fact, Amitav Ghosh has written an account of …
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What price sanctions?
Book Review: The Trade Weapon, by Ken Heydon (Wiley 2023)
Following the presumed assassination of Russian political opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the United States,…
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Spy novels and unicorn hunting
“I wasted time and now time doth waste me.” Shakespeare’s rueful admonition (from Richard II) should nag at all of us who have expended energy on dead ends, red herrings or lost…
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When war-planning and politics collide
Book review: War on the Ballot: How the Election Cycle Shapes Presidential Decision-Making in War, by Andrew Payne (Colombia, 2023)
Political scientist Andrew Payne…