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Wright Thompson’s account of the 1950s murder of a Black teenager in Mississippi is also a reckoning with the history of his own family.

Joshua Blackburn has compiled a treasure-trove of the humorous, the obscure, the trivial and the surprising in this survey of ...

Australian governments are addicted to fossil-fuel exports that harm the climate and return little to the country. How did this happen?

This account of ancient rock art in Eurasia, Arabia and the Sahara attempts to discover the beliefs of the people who created it. This is a big, beautiful and fascinating book. It is a weighty tome, ...

Esther Anatolitis reveals just how closely Australia’s constitution ties us to the whims of the English monarch, and makes the case for change. It is a safe bet that, other than constitutional lawyers ...

Barry Nicholls turns in a masterly review of the 1972 Ashes series, arguing that Australia’s tour of England reflected societal change. Test series have an inbuilt structure, and Nicholls builds on ...

With the new year barely begun, take a look back at our top ten reviews of 2025. It’s always fascinating to see which reviews have attracted the most interest from readers. While this 2025 list leans ...