Books & arts
7 March 2026
The future “queen of muckraking” fled the rigid class system of her home country for a high-profile career in investigative journalism
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
Retrospective
16 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
Books & arts
7 March 2023
Why did Richard Bradford bother writing his biography of the controversial American writer?
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
Doomed to defeat in 1972, did prime minister William McMahon show more initiative than he’s given credit for?
Books & arts
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
From the archive
4 September 2022
Harold Holt’s attraction to danger gives his death an air of inevitability
Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman applies a forensic eye to the history wars battle between Manning Clark and Peter Ryan
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
Books & arts
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
