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When filmmaker Rachel Landers first became fascinated with the story of the unsolved bombing of the Sydney Hilton Hotel in 1978, she realised that it reached far beyond our shores into global acts of terror. So what have we learned since that botched investigation? 

What was it like to live through the AIDS epidemic in Sydney? What has changed since then, and what hasn't? Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A HIstory is a newly updated version of his 1991 classic City of the Plain: History of Gay Sub-culture. Gay Sydney vividly traces a history of the city accross the century, from secret, underground gay life to the never-ending deabtes about sex in society and the role of the social movements in the '60s and '70s.

From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11 maps the shift in how Muslim women have been represented: from victims in need of rescue, to suspects in need of monitoring and control. Yet despite this shift, sometimes it feels as though we’re locked in a neverending Groundhog Day, doomed to repeat the same experiences over and over again with no resolution in sight.

European Australians often don't stop to think about the foods that have grown in Australia for thousands and thousands of years. And when Indigenous people were removed from their traditional foods along with their lands, it was a complete cultural and nutritional disaster. John Newton’s new book The Oldest Foods on Earth reminds us of the impact. 

After the bestselling success of their book Alphabetical Sydney, Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell turned their eyes towards the local shops to create Numerical Street, paying homage to the ‘ordinary and unremarked’ streetscapes of Australia. Here’s how it all happened ... 

In this article Catherine Bishop reminds us that businesswomen have been running their own businesses since colonial times and that it's not a modern phenonomen. 

Jessica Kitchen is a Year 8 student from Central Coast Grammar School, NSW. She won the inaugural UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing for this essay, which explains the function and importance of 'Foucault's Pendulum', the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth. 

Anthony Bond was the first curator of contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His book The Idea of Art explores how he built the collection and, through interviews with some of the key artists in the collection, offers important insights into understanding and appreciating contemporary art.

Naturalist, poet and seasoned bushwalker John Blay worked for over a decade to uncover the Bundian Way, a 380-kilometre ancient pathway from Mount Kosciuszko to the New South Wales far south coast, used by both the Aboriginal people of the area and the earliest British arrivals. But what is it about the Bundian Way that makes it less like a walk and more like a pilgrimage?

In her illustrated history of three residential colleges at the University of New South Wales – Basser, Philip Baxter and Goldstein – Claire Scobie takes her story beyond the college walls, tracking 50 years of educational change and the spirited students who lived the on-campus life with gusto.

When I was a kid my mum used to say I’d either be very successful or end up in jail.

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, reflects on race, multiculturalism and how the law has attempted to deal with discrimination in his new book I'm Not Racist But ... 40 years of the Racial Discrimination Act.