Books & Arts
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & Arts
11 October 2022
Kath Kenny’s intergenerational account of a key moment in Australian theatre
Books & Arts
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
Books & Arts
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
Books & Arts
18 December 2020
Books | A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries
Books & Arts
5 November 2020
Books | Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & Arts
10 September 2020
Books | Australian modernist literature looks a little different through an international lens
From the archive
21 July 2020
The fiction of Elizabeth Harrower, who died earlier this month
Books & Arts
14 July 2020
Books | A new biography traces the works and days of poet David Campbell
Books & Arts
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & Arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & Arts
6 April 2020
Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate?
Books & Arts
19 November 2019
Books | Andrew McGahan was a talented writer with a strong ethical sense who never took himself too seriously
Books & Arts
29 October 2019
The scrapping of Sydney University’s professorship has great symbolic importance
Books & Arts
13 August 2019
Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & Arts
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Books & Arts
7 December 2018
Books | Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & Arts
5 October 2018
Do Sydney’s theatre audiences yearn for the city of old?
Books & Arts
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Essays & Reportage
6 June 2018
A wedding, four plays and a TV series — do the British have something to teach us about scrutinising power?
Books & Arts
18 December 2017
Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers
Books & Arts
31 July 2017
Three writers explore the mixed inheritances that helped fuel their work
Books & Arts
4 May 2017
An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt
Books & Arts
7 March 2017
Books | Anna Wickham made a distinctive contribution to the poetic experiments of the early twentieth century
Books & Arts
11 November 2016
Books | A new biography explores the ambivalent legacy of being “born of the conquerors”
Books & Arts
19 October 2016
On the Greek island, a conference reappraises the lives and work of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Books & Arts
18 August 2016
Books | Gwen Harwood’s letters reveal an exuberant wit and sense of the ridiculous, writes Susan Lever
Books & Arts
30 May 2016
Australia’s array of awards shows there are good and bad ways of recognising great writing, argues Susan Lever
Books & Arts
22 February 2016
Books | Crawford Productions was created in the early years of Australian TV, writes Susan Lever, and its influence is still alive in the industry