In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

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She’s lost track of the number of times she has been asked to quantify her Indian identity, “sometimes by complete strangers.” Blood quantum as a measure of heredity and skin colour, both ...

The shock jolted passengers a little, but the big orange BJP bus continues to roll down the road to Hindutva, the promised land of a Hindu supremacist state. The results of the seven weeks of voting ...

Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of ...

Part two of A Dictator Calls takes us decades away from Stalin and Pasternak. It is 2015 and the writer still can’t rid ...

Books & arts History’s hinge Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?

It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged $7 to see a GP. This ...

As Washington representative of Australia’s Office of National Intelligence, or ONI, for most of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, Ben Scott had a ringside seat on the convulsions in America’s ...