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Themes of displacement and dispossession runs through Arnold Zable's non-fiction book "The Watermill". Diedre Mask explains how street addresses tell a grand narrative of how power has shifted and stretched over the centuries.

Mathew Colloff reflects on his time as research scientist and his relationship and observations of the Australian environment and its people. The Budgerigar: How a brave, chatty and colourful little Aussie bird stole the world’s heart,

Tom Keneally tells the story of Charles Dickens' boys and their connection to Australia. Max Allen surveys the long history of fermented drinks in Australia.

For 75 years, the world has been one 'push of a button' away from nuclear war. Now, it's closer than ever.

The success story of the Falklands since the war and how the spread of pianos across Siberia brought stories of love, pain and loss, as well as music.

Peter Beinart argues that the notion of a two state solution for Israel and Palestinian is dead, and that alternatives, such as one state for all, needs to be found soon. Is it possible to overlook the first home when it comes to writing about a person's life? And what can a house reveal about the inner life of its inhabitants?

Australia's draconian censorship system, even more strict than that of Britain's which it sought to emulate, was brought down with Penguin's courageous publication of Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth in 1970. The Hunter Valley in the NSW has an incredibly rich convict history.

On September 11th, 1695, an English pirate reshaped the world after pulling off one of the most audacious and lucrative robberies of all time. And, does the idea of Afropea, a culture drawing on both African and European traditions, exist outside the world of art and music?

The contradictions of America’s longest serving Supreme Court Judge, Clarence Thomas. And the life of Wendall Willkie, idealist and international envoy to President Roosevelt.

America's first female secretary of state Madeleine Albright talks about navigating life's 'third act', and Yale historian Valerie Hansen takes us back to the year 1000 AD.