What happens on tour …
When protesters took to the streets over South Africa’s 1971 rugby tour of Australia, violence begat violence.
Books
Being there for proto-feminist
The short but productive life of German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker has gone under the microscope.
Race apart
The ‘good Muslim, bad Muslim’ misconception is explored, and at times reinforced, in new books by Australian authors.
Behind Putin’s iron curtain
Is the Russian leader real or a mythical construct of his entourage and journalists?
A nation’s troubled legacy
A war veteran relates his experience at home and abroad to a young narrator in Alexis Jenni’s The French Art of War.
Individuals kept the faith
Roy Hattersley is the perfect person to write a history of Catholics in Britain and Ireland.
Topics close to home
Two novels by newish Australian writers touch on an occupation that does not make headlines in literature: journalism.
Well-read in Beijing
Tom Keneally has a longstanding relationship with China and his books are finding a new audience there.
Nixon’s precursor to Trump
Pat Buchanan — political adviser, commentator, presidential candidate — was Donald Trump before Donald Trump.
Oz authors become write stuff
Australian authors were mobbed day after day by mostly young readers during Australian Writers Week in China.
Pell book withdrawn from sale
The book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell withdrawn from sale in Victoria but will be available in other states.
Paddington creator dead at 91
Michael Bond, the creator of the much-loved fictional character Paddington Bear, has died.
Police Minister keeps it real
When Toni Grant finished the first draft of her first book she handed it to her husband. His response was blunt.
Pussy: a novel response to Trump
Howard Jacobson has not let caution and the passage of time cool his response to the US President’s ascendancy.
Waiting for the joke
With the onset of Brexit, are the Brits losing a key ingredient in their sense of humour?
North Korea, total oppression
The Accusation is a heartbreaking collection of stories that illustrate life under North Korea’s totalitarian system.
Memoirs of loss and hardship
When someone has gone through something life-changingly awful, there is catharsis in writing about it.
Byte back
Two new books argue Big Tech is taking over the world and it’s time for us to do something about it.
Adding insight to injury
Clive James has had six years he ‘wasn’t meant to have’ and in the face of death has written some of his best poems.
The 1980s through teenage eyes
We should be glad Moira Burke’s Losing It has received a new lease on life.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/page/188