“Flanner’s coverage of war crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, her reportage of the Nuremberg trials and her work on the Nazi looting of priceless cultural artefacts were indefatigable. And they inflected the New Yorker’s style and outlook thereafter.” inside.org.au/just-the-thing
Just the thing • Patrick Mullins
Janet Flanner’s despatches from Paris helped make the New Yorker a better magazine than its founder envisaged
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Wrote about Janet Flanner and the New Yorker, and Mark Braude’s Typewriter and the Guillotine, for Inside Story. insidestory.org.au/just-the-thi...
Just the thing • Patrick Mullins
Janet Flanner’s despatches from Paris helped make the New Yorker a better magazine than its founder envisaged
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Great to see this lil para on my new book, The Stained Man, in this weekend’s Canberra Times.
Delighted to see The Stained Man feature as one of the Herald’s/Age’s picks of the week!
‘Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown’ My piece in The Guardian on RD Meagher, stained men, and the playbook for rehabilitation: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown: how one NSW politician went from scandal to political success – and wrote a playbook still used today
At the turn of last century, an ambitious young solicitor caused a scandal in a high-profile murder case. Years later he was a political leader in a new nation. How did he do it?
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‘Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown’ My piece in The Guardian on RD Meagher, stained men, and the playbook for rehabilitation: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sway a crowd, wear a martyr’s crown: how one NSW politician went from scandal to political success – and wrote a playbook still used today
At the turn of last century, an ambitious young solicitor caused a scandal in a high-profile murder case. Years later he was a political leader in a new nation. How did he do it?
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Our May Focus On is here featuring books by Renata Adler, Linus Liu, Patrick Mullins, Adrian Mackenzie, Sarah Rice and Niki Savva. marion.ink/focus-on #FocusOn @patrickmullins.bsky.social @hachetteaus.bsky.social @scribepub.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @simonschusteranz.bsky.social
Great to see my new book, The Stained Man, in Guardian Australia’s best new books of May 2026!
Inside Story, based on my launch speech for Patrick Mullins's The Stained Man. inside.org.au/bombast-of-b...
Bombast of Botany Bay • Frank Bongiorno
Patrick Mullins coaxes big themes out of the story of one of the city’s great thrusters
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I spoke yesterday with David Marr, on Late Night Live, about my new book, The Stained Man, and all things scandalous and political in Australia in the early twentieth century. Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Richard Meagher was at the centre of early Australian politics. But he had a scandalous past - ABC listen
In 1895 Sydney solicitor Richard Meagher incited a campaign to free George Dean, a handsome, popular ferryman accused of attempting to poison his own wife, despite knowing he was guilty. The case beca...
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My new book, The Stained Man, was launched last night. Frank Bongiorno, whose work has enriched so many peoples’ understanding of Australian history - and certainly mine - launched it. I’m grateful to everyone who attended. And I’m so happy the book is out in the world.
I was delighted when one of this country’s most insightful commentators on politics, Sean Kelly, endorsed my next book, The Stained Man. Out 28 April with Scribe.
So, my new book, The Stained Man, comes out on 28 April, thanks to the good people at Scribe Publications. Here are a few events and publicity things that I'll be at. Would be great to see you there!
What Mark Twain said about the scandal at the heart of my next book, The Stained Man. Out 28 April through Scribe.
My next book, The Stained Man, will be published 28 April by Scribe Publications. Here’s what Australia’s leading historian, Frank Bongiorno, said about it:
I wrote about Carla Kaplan’s new biography, ‘Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford’. See it here: insidestory.org.au/the-other-mi...
My new book, The Stained Man, is being published next May by the good folks at Scribe. Here's the cover:
My new book, The Stained Man, is being published next May by the good folks at Scribe. Here's the cover:
I reviewed the new, second volume of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, for ABR: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
I reviewed a new biography of the historian Asa Briggs, by Adam Sisman, for Inside Story: insidestory.org.au/now-down-to-...
Now, down to business • Patrick Mullins
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance,” Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
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Wrote about Blake Bailey’s new book, Canceled Lives, for Inside Story: insidestory.org.au/okay-youre-h...
Okay, you’re hired • Patrick Mullins
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
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