Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is “premised on the conviction that we cannot see impressionism clearly” without grasping the impact on the movement’s leading painters of the Franco-Prussian ...

If you were to drive from Barcaldine to Longreach to Winton, as I did recently, you would return fearing that the omnishambles of the Voice referendum will be joined in due course by the train wreck ...

Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

Books & arts That slippery zeitgeist Andrew Bonnell 23 August 2024 Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic ...

As Conservative MP Gareth Bacon put it, “Britain is under attack.” Into the midst of this contention came theologian Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), a largely positive account of ...

You will find him in our concert halls sitting at a harpsichord or organ or historical piano — a fortepiano from Mozart’s day or a later nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century model. You are far less ...

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This latest chapter in the Middle East’s bloody history raises a basic question: what is the end game? As Israel contemplates its response to Iranian missile attacks that have exposed the limitations ...

Correspondents Kamala Harris is good at this Bill Scher 12 September 2024 The vice-president laid out her plans for the future while Donald Trump was caught in a tangle of past grievances ...

International Gantz’s gamble Tony Walker 12 June 2024 Does Benny Gantz have the qualities needed to bring down a prime minister determined to prolong a brutal war? International March of folly Tony ...