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Books & arts A gateway drug to history Kate Fullagar 31 October 2025 The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary Books & arts Perilous refuge Sara Dowse 29 October 2025 Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art Essays & reportage Misfit, missionary, mercenary? Gordon Peake 28 October 2025 Old-timers still abound in the Pacific Books & arts Talking about a revolution Marian Quartly 24 October 2025 Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?

Books & arts Authors of their own lives? Marian Quartly 23 September 2025 How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia Books & arts Certain ideas of France Anne Freadman 16 September 2025 Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities Essays & reportage Australia’s forgotten colonial history Klaus Neumann 15 September 2025 What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence? Books & arts Australia’s Nazi hunters Ruth Balint 12 September 2025 Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government

From the archive Hot night at Town Hall Ken Inglis 28 July 2025 What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960? National affairs The jewel in the crown of the ANU Tom Griffiths and Mark McKenna 22 July 2025 Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are… Essays & reportage Keen as mustard Anne-Marie Condé 18 July 2025 What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939? Essays & reportage A political world we still inhabit Frank Bongiorno 2 July 2025 Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics