Books & arts
21 February 2025
A chilling account of occupied southeastern Ukraine reveals a systematic program of Russification combined with chaos, brutality and corruption
Books & arts
21 February 2025
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum hasn’t quite nailed the problem, or the possible solutions
Books & arts
20 February 2025
A high-profile lawyer defends employees’ rights to free speech, regardless of their politics
Books & arts
20 February 2025
Three striking new films rub the real against the fictional in different ways
Books & arts
14 February 2025
Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts
13 February 2025
A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship
Books & arts
11 February 2025
Has Guan Hu made a film about the feral dogs of Chixia — or about China itself?
Books & arts
10 February 2025
From the late nineteenth century, new lightweight cameras opened up the world in ways their manufacturers didn’t anticipate
Books & arts
7 February 2025
A new history of Australia’s postwar welfare system provides plenty of lessons for a better future
Books & arts
5 February 2025
Economic and political pressures are pulling in different directions in Xi Jinping’s China
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Gisèle Pélicot’s daughter explores the repercussions of her father’s crimes
Books & arts
1 February 2025
Looking for the music in James Mangold’s biopic
Books & arts
31 January 2025
What makes a twentieth-century novel?
Books & arts
30 January 2025
Nicole Kidman is well-matched by Harris Dickinson in an exploration of pleasure, power and control
Books & arts
28 January 2025
Who is entitled to be a Native American?
Books & arts
27 January 2025
Language flows in unexpected ways
Books & arts
21 January 2025
Ismail Kadare’s final novel sums up a career shaped by tyranny
Books & arts
16 January 2025
Nothing exposes the famed neurologist as much as his letters
Books & arts
15 January 2025
There was much more to the waspish writer than memorable (and misremembered) one-liners
Books & arts
15 January 2025
Helen Garner reminds us that there are beginnings as well as ends
Books & arts
13 January 2025
Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record straight
Books & arts
24 December 2024
Could a close look at Austria tell us where Western democracies are heading?
Books & arts
17 December 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk want to drastically cut government jobs. Dan Honig makes the case for better not fewer
Books & arts
14 December 2024
Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence
Books & arts
11 December 2024
How two political consultants pushed the Democratic Party towards their imagined middle ground
Books & arts
11 December 2024
Kevin Rudd sees a clear line between the Chinese president’s worldview and his country’s path. But is it as simple as that?
Books & arts
9 December 2024
Musicologist Lawrence Kramer wants his readers to think differently about the sound of music and the music of sound
Books & arts
9 December 2024
How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?