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Books September 08, 2018
The Billionaire Raj
At 1.30am on a December night almost five years ago in Mumbai’s most expensive residential area, a speeding Aston Martin rammed into another car driven by a young woman. She told police the other driver, a young man, had quickly jumped into an escorting …
Books August 26, 2017
Please Explain
Fly-on-the-wall footage of outlying social groups – alt-right political parties, bikies, squatters – is a staple of documentary film. It requires a lot of straight-faced swallowing of preposterous notions, in the hope the resulting film is seen as …
Books June 09, 2018
Duterte Harry
This book is about the man reasonable, smart, hard-working Filipinos elected as president almost two years ago: a gangster-politician who’s since added the Philippine police to his gang, too, authorising extrajudicial killing of up to 20,000 perceived …
Books July 01, 2017
Destined for War
Ancient Sparta is a byword for austerity and fighting skill. The city-state culled weaklings at birth and sent its remaining boys at seven into military training camps where they stayed until age 30. Just 300 of its warriors held off a mighty Persian …
