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HUGH WHITE Hard New World: Our post-American future. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

HUGH WHITE Hard New World: Our post-American future. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 24 Jul 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Can Australia pursue a defence strategy independent of the United States? Hugh White presents a compelling case to do so.  In this Quarterly Essay, Hugh White is hoping to influence the politicians and advisors who make strategic decisions concerning Australia’s...
AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 7 Nov 2024 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) – which...
ARNOLD ZABLE The Watermill. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

ARNOLD ZABLE The Watermill. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 12 May 2020 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Arnold Zable finds resilience and inspiration among the survivors of extraordinary suffering. In his quartet of stories, based on real people and events, Arnold Zable travels to places whose histories feature, within living memory, genocidal regimes that visited...

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