Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
Books & arts
19 September 2025
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Gisèle Pélicot’s daughter explores the repercussions of her father’s crimes
Books & arts
14 December 2024
Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence
Books & arts
21 June 2024
Why did members of a historian’s family mysteriously go missing?
Books & arts
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & arts
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & arts
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
Books & arts
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Books & arts
26 April 2023
Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues
Retrospective
14 October 2022
Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
From the archive
4 October 2021
Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables is far more than an abandoned curiosity
Books & arts
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Books & arts
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
10 April 2021
Books | Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
From the archive
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
Books & arts
8 February 2021
Books | A provocative essayist takes stock of “sex panics” and their legacies
Books & arts
25 November 2020
Books | How extreme misogyny affects us all
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Books | We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
6 November 2019
Books | “In harming myself, I was harming others,” writes Bri Lee in her follow-up to Eggshell Skull
