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The Dictionary Wars: The American fight over the English language by Peter Martin
by Bruce Moore •
Jean Blackburn: Education, feminism and social justice by Craig Campbell and Debra Hayes
by Ilana Snyder •
Being Various: New Irish short stories edited by Lucy Caldwell
by Chris Flynn •
The sunset is orange, the sky scattered with clouds. We’re eating pumpkin and lentil soup out of bowls from home. I didn’t think it was necessary to bring them, the cupboards here are well stocked, but Irene insisted. She says they’re the perfect size. Also, she read in her online mother’s group that the glaze on old crockery often contains lead ...
... (read more)‘Things that never were: Contradictions in the 2019 federal election' by Dennis Altman
by Dennis Altman •
In retrospect, the Morrison government’s win in May 2019 is not surprising. After the shift to the right in a number of liberal democracies since the election of Donald Trump, why did we assume that Australia would be immune? The assumption that Labor was certain to win resembled the attitude of most commentators towards Hillary Clinton ...
... (read more)Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the present day by Sheri Berman
by Rémy Davison •