Whistling past the graveyard

Dwight G. Duncan | 19 July 2010

Why is public debate so shallow, impoverished and pointless? A new book contends that reason has been exiled and replaced by mere reasonableness.

When China Rules the World

Constance Kong | 04 July 2010

Perhaps, but not before its poverty and corruption disappear and who knows how many decades that will take?

A magical classic turns 50

John Robson | 08 June 2010

To Kill a Mockingbird is 50 years old, John Robson says it has only improved with age.

Contested Will

Francis Phillips | 24 May 2010

Why have so many intelligent people been so dotty about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? 

Are We Related? The New Granta Book of the Family

Francis Phillips | 09 April 2010

Poignance, bleakness, compassion, horror: it's all there in this compilation of memoirs and fiction about the family. 

The English Marriage

Francis Phillips | 15 March 2010

A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

Francis Phillips | 28 January 2010

India may have the best of modern technology and a powerful economy, but it is deeply religious. 

A witness who paid the price

Francis Phillips | 29 December 2009

The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

Martyn Drakard | 25 December 2009

There is hope for Africa, writes a British journalist, perhaps more hope than for more developed countries.

What science knows and how it knows it

Richard Umbers | 16 December 2009 | comment 3

A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.

Americans in Paris

Francis Phillips | 10 December 2009 | comment 1

Unlike the proprietor of Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca, some of his compatriots stayed in Paris.

Going Rogue: Let’s cut to the chase, Sarah

Jeff Gardner | 02 December 2009 | comment 3

After 400 pages we still don’t know whether Sarah Palin is a really rogue element in politics or merely aiming for a future in the GOP.

Going Rogue all the way to the White House?

Brigitte Pellerin | 02 December 2009 | comment 2

Sarah Palin's book An American Life is suprisingly moving and well worth the read.

Getting Real

Pauline Cooper | 19 October 2009 | comment 10

Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.

Chimps R’nt Us

Richard Umbers | 05 October 2009 | comment 58

If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?

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