Politics
The New Emperors: Power and the princelings in china by Kerry Brown
by Nicholas Hordern •
Dragon’s Tail: The Lucky Country after the China boom (Quarterly Essay 54) by Andrew Charlton
by Kerry Brown •
Confessions of a People-Smuggler by Dawood Amiri & The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs
by Peter Mares •
The guard with the Kalashnikov singles me out from the other passengers on the border to Ukraine. I am leaving the frozen state of Transnistria. He leads me to a small interrogation room. Four more border patrol guards and a translator are in the room. The men fossick through my bags and ask questions. ‘Are you carrying drugs or weapons?’ ‘Do you deal drugs or weapons?’ ‘Are you aware that you are entering a country that is at war?’
... (read more)Worldly Philosopher by Jeremy Adelman & The Essential Hirschman edited by Jeremy Adelman
by Adrian Walsh •
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton & HRC by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
by Christopher Neff •
Power Failure: The inside story of climate politics under Rudd and Gillard by Philip Chubb
by David Donaldson •
Gravity by Mary Delahunty & Rudd, Gillard and Beyond by Troy Bramston
by Joel Deane •