November 2017, no. 396

Welcome to the November Arts issue! Highlights include:
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Religion
Martin Luther: Rebel in an age of upheaval by Heinz Schilling, translated by Rona Johnston
by Morag Fraser
Politics
Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam government’s 21st century agenda edited by Jenny Hocking
Politics
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce & The Fate of the West: by Bill Emmott
by Mark Chou
Society
Everybody Lies: What the Internet can tell us about who we really are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
by Kirk Graham
Shakespeare
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and succession in the history plays by Peter Lake
Architecture
The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Anne Watson
Theatre
Balancing Acts: Behind the scenes at the National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner
History
The Unwomanly Face of War by by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
by Miriam Cosic
India
Koh-I-Noor: The history of the world’s most infamous diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
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