Review
Favourites of 2019: Yangyang Cheng
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Or in this instance...
For me, this…
Favourites of 2019: Richard Holbrooke, “almost great”
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films, or TV programs this year.
My favourite book of 2019 was Our Man:…
Favourites of 2019: The Trauma Cleaner
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year.
Sarah Krasnostein’s deeply affecting…
Favourites of 2019: The Twitterverse
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Or in this instance...
The best thing I…
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films, or TV programs this year. And because I'm the editor, I'll …
How many Cold Wars does it take to make a “new” one?
The Cold War is not an easy term to define, which makes its increasing use as a term of reference for any great power conflict today problematic. When any “new” Cold War is…
Book review: China, the US, and the big break
Book review: Paul Blustein: Schism: China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System (CIGI Press, 2019)
Paul Blustein has produced an enviable bookshelf of…
Book Review: The original corporate raiders
Review: William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019)
In his new book, The Anarchy, renowned…
Review: Australia, real and imagined
Review: Tim Watts, The Golden Country: Australia’s Changing Identity (Text Publishing 2019)
Summer reading bins have been well stocked with memoirs by retired Australian…
Film review: Torture, lies, and videotape
The Report, directed by Scott Z. Burns. Opens 14 November in Australia.
More than a century ago, the US invasion of the Philippines turned from a supposed act of liberation into…