Books & arts
4 October 2019
Books | Does gender and race fully explain the discrimination faced by women of colour?
Books & arts
25 July 2019
Books | Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse
Books & arts
21 June 2019
Books | Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Essays & reportage
20 May 2019
Saturday night’s result revealed the power of a grassroots movement
Essays & reportage
7 May 2019
Election 2019 | Our correspondent detects a pattern in the local reaction to Zali Steggall’s campaign
National affairs
24 April 2019
Election 2019 | Our correspondent reports from the sensible centre of Tony Abbott’s hotly contested seat
Books & arts
19 February 2019
Books | Stoked by cigarettes and whiskey, Kenneth Cook kept writing until the end
Books & arts
20 December 2018
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Books & arts
14 September 2018
Books | Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
Books & arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & arts
22 May 2018
Books | Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)?
Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
Books & arts
25 July 2017
Books | Jack Bowers reveals a remarkable wealth of Australian autobiography
Books & arts
16 August 2016
Books | Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Essays & reportage
4 May 2015
Sara Dowse remembers the writer Amirah Inglis, who died on Saturday
Books & arts
20 April 2015
Books | Sara Dowse reviews the autobiography of the former Queensland premier
Books & arts
9 January 2015
Books | We need to change, yet we resist. Sara Dowse reviews Vincent Deary’s compelling account of the psychological how and why
Books & arts
15 October 2014
Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Essays & reportage
14 August 2014
We not only need more women in positions of power, we also need to examine again what that power is about, argues Sara Dowse in her 2014 Emily’s List Oration
Books & arts
31 July 2014
Two books about the second world war show that humans are capable of lifting ourselves out of the mire
Books & arts
12 June 2014
Books | Best known for her undercover exposé Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes Sara Dowse
Books & arts
13 February 2014
Would bending be the bravest option for Israel, asks Sara Dowse
Books & arts
29 November 2013
Sara Dowse reviews three new books about what it means to grow old
Books & arts
13 June 2013
Sara Dowse reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
Books & arts
6 June 2013
Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government? Sara Dowse responds to Anne Summers’s The Misogyny Factor
Books & arts
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
From the archive
14 June 2012
Gertrude Stein’s authoritarian views left her susceptible to Marshal Pétain’s wartime Vichy government
Books & arts
30 June 2011
You shouldn’t have to work for free to break into the white-collar world, argues Ross Perlin in this new book. Sara Dowse agrees
Books & arts
5 May 2011
It might feel right, but is it good for the kids? Sara Dowse reviews two very different books about childhood
National affairs
18 November 2010
American-born Sara Dowse traces the career of American-born NSW premier Kristina Keneally