Our new Gilded Age
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There are uncanny echoes between today's populist White House and the wrenching decades after America's Civil War.
There are uncanny echoes between today's populist White House and the wrenching decades after America's Civil War.
Washington hoped that another idealistic, unconventional outsider might win a guerilla war for them. Edward Lansdale failed -- but inspired a Graham Greene novel instead, writes James Hershberg
Peter Carey's new novel is about a team of round-Australia auto rallyists who find themselves drawn into the terra nullius of their own life and times.
Great Britain's libraries were both a refuge for eccentric nobility and an arriviste display of wealth
The 400 billion photographs taken each year says that we are as much taken with 2-D images as we were in the era of the unique painting.
The 17 stories in At The End of the Century chronicle Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's concern with cultural encounters, dislocation and the immigrant experience.
The rise of eSports is continuing with a new deal to create gaming arenas in Hoyts cinemas for a city-based Australian league.
Based in Monte Carlo, the world's hottest plucker will tour Australia in May with the Brandenburg Orchestra.
New Australian-Chinese production Guardians of the Tomb is the latest example of films made specifically for China's booming cinema market. Just don't expect it to get rave reviews here.
Is art less beautiful or thought less profound when it is created by thugs, rapists, or bullies? The #MeToo revelations have raised the ques...
Netflix this week resumed production on the final season of House of Cards, minus its star, Kevin Spacey, but plus new character
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