Review
Books for quarantine: Hugh White suggests, plus a time for classics
“Why did no one suggest The Decameron?” asks prominent Australian strategic analyst Hugh White in a quick email responding to the excellent collection of books The Interpreter…
Books for self-isolation: Revisiting Why Nations Fail
Ed’s note: In response to a call on The Interpreter for reading suggestions in the event of a stint in Covid-19 related quarantine, Scott Robinson wrote that he’d recently…
Book review: Contest for the Indo-Pacific
Book Review: Rory Medcalf Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future (La Trobe University Press, 2020)
The first point that emerges from Rory Medcalf’s Contest…
Books I’ve been meaning to read: Covid-19 and preparing for quarantine
(Update: A list of reader responses to this article is available here.)
With news dubbed #toiletpaperpanic taking hold on social media in Australia last week, the empty…
Book Review: Can we do good without it really costing anything?
Book Review: Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Penguin, 2019)
It’s a seductive idea – the notion that we can “do good” for…
Book review: Where Power Stops
Book review: David Runciman Where Power Stops, The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers (Allen and Unwin, 2019)
It’s an odd feeling to enjoy a book and the…
Book review: A very private enterprise
Book Review: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, by Christopher Leonard (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
Kochland tells the…
Book review: Betraying Big Brother
Book review: Leta Hong Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018)
In China, a country of contradictions, a feminist movement emerged when…
Favourites of 2019: Babylon Berlin
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films, or TV programs this year.
There are perks to being unfashionably…
Favourites of 2019: Hasan Minhaj’s incisive yet accessible comedy
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films, or TV programs this year.
A comedian with a keen eye for the…