Books & arts
12 September 2025
Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government
Books & arts
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
Books & arts
11 September 2025
Universities and the assault on cultural infrastructure
Books & arts
10 September 2025
Melody, rhythm, lyrics, arrangements: it’s the sonority of familiar music that we carry with us
Books & arts
9 September 2025
Spike Lee’s new movie, now streaming, is a drama about music, mayhem and moral dilemmas
Books & arts
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Books & arts
27 August 2025
The European Union’s relations with its member states could help us navigate the process of treaty-making
Books & arts
21 August 2025
Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly”
Books & arts
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
Books & arts
14 August 2025
Collaboration is reconciliation, say the authors of The Australian Ingredients Kitchen
Books & arts
14 August 2025
A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates
Books & arts
13 August 2025
“Go to Australia. Now,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that
Books & arts
12 August 2025
Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine
Books & arts
10 August 2025
Getting the most out of a photo means focusing on its uniqueness, says photographer Michael Collins
Books & arts
8 August 2025
An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume
Books & arts
6 August 2025
What drives conspiracy theories?
Books & arts
6 August 2025
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s campaign against nuclear annihilation
Books & arts
30 July 2025
A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview
Books & arts
24 July 2025
This year’s BBC Proms celebrate composer, conductor and audience favourite Pierre Boulez
Books & arts
23 July 2025
Australia’s latest book by a former political prisoner paints a vivid picture of survival inside one of China’s state security jails
Books & arts
22 July 2025
The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder
Books & arts
18 July 2025
Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation
Books & arts
18 July 2025
If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
9 July 2025
A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back
Books & arts
8 July 2025
In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy
Books & arts
4 July 2025
Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone