Books & arts
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Books & arts
13 February 2025
A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship
Books & arts
15 January 2025
There was much more to the waspish writer than memorable (and misremembered) one-liners
Books & arts
3 December 2024
A novelist reflects on “exile as agony but also as ethical position”
Books & arts
13 June 2024
What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities?
Books & arts
24 April 2024
A Palestinian father’s story of life and death in the Occupied Territories
Books & arts
22 December 2023
Newly translated, Azerbaijan-born Banine’s memoirs chronicle her extraordinary early years
Books & arts
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
Books & arts
12 May 2023
Writer Kapka Kassabova continues her beguiling exploration of the Balkans
Essays & reportage
24 March 2023
That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
Books & arts
4 September 2022
Some exiles are enriched by their journey, others “killed and yet alive”
Books & arts
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
From the archive
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
National affairs
22 September 2021
Female politicians are no longer rare, and the prospect of a female PM nowhere near as challenging. What seems to matter is how they get there
Books & arts
15 September 2021
Leïla Slimani vividly reimagines her grandmother’s life as a young French woman in Morocco
From the archive
13 August 2021
Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan?
Books & arts
16 April 2021
Books | The region that gave the world the word “balkanised” proves a fascinating setting for a travel book with a difference
National affairs
17 March 2021
A half-century’s perspective on this week’s protests
Books & arts
5 March 2021
Books | Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
Books & arts
5 February 2021
Books | A freewheeling memoir is less about the author than the people and forces that shaped him
Books & arts
19 October 2020
Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory
Essays & reportage
2 October 2020
A former colleague recalls working with the reformist Labor minister
Books & arts
9 July 2020
Books | Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
Books & arts
27 May 2020
Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Literary critic Vivian Gornick’s latest book is as much about life as it is about reading
From the archive
6 November 2019
Melbourne’s Olympic year sums up why the fifties weren’t as dull as you might think
Books & arts
4 October 2019
Books | Does gender and race fully explain the discrimination faced by women of colour?