Apart from the scarcity of archival material, Gail Crowther’s challenge in writing Dorothy Parker in Hollywood was to ...

We are with her as she perches on the back of a seat (to get a better view of the training), delineating each of the boys on the team, attending to the coach as he urges them on, noticing the women ...

Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record straight ...

Kartlis Deda (or Mother of Georgia) is a twenty-metre statue of a woman holding a cup of wine in one hand and a sword in the ...

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International Not only did Harris lose… Peter Brent 18 November 2024 With the results near-final, what do we now know about the shifting preferences of American voters? Correspondents Historic gender ...

With almost half the world’s population voting in national or Europe-wide elections during 2024, Time magazine declared it “the ultimate election year.” Now it’s almost over we can stand back and try ...

Should we have seen it coming? With the benefit of hindsight, Donald Trump’s victory seems to have been inevitable, and the excitement of journalists reporting a closely contested presidential ...

Saul Steinberg’s All in Line was a triumph when it was first published in June 1945. The New York Times praised it, there was a positive notice in Art News, and LIFE magazine reproduced examples with ...

Two narratives compete about public administration. One is captured by Georgetown University’s Dan Honig in his new book, Mission Driven Bureaucrats. It assumes government can make a positive ...

Peter Dutton’s declaration that he will not stand next to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags turns the arc of Australian history off the path it seemed to be on thirty years ago. Then, in ...