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Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
James Minchin reviews Chris Lydgate’s Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent.
Reviews of About face: Asian Accounts of Australia; Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor; The Complete Book of Great Australian Women—Thirty-Six women who changed the course of Australia and The Conclave: A sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance, not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.
Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.
It is interesting and somewhat disturbing to discover how readily popular novelists regard politics as an appropriate background for crime stories. Tony Smith previews two novels that get much mileage from the intrigue of the political sphere.
This Lent the Passion of the Christ has been the biggest Christian show in town.
Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.
John Howard has done more than enough to deserve to lose the next election by a wide margin. The polls indicate that he probably will. Yet he remains a slight favourite in the betting.
Dorothy Horsfield speaks to some articulate and revolutionary Islamic women
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
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