Books & arts
18 November 2025
You’d be unwise to bet on it
Books & arts
17 November 2025
Does the 1929 Wall Street crash hold a message for our times?
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
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
Books & arts
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
Books & arts
10 November 2025
It’s not me, it’s you, our critic tells Lily Allen
Books & arts
9 November 2025
Three writers talk about what could and couldn’t be said at Erin Patterson’s murder trial
Books & arts
5 November 2025
The Travellers and Kangaroo reviewed
Books & arts
3 November 2025
Done properly, psychoanalysis doesn’t provide ready answers, says practitioner Stephen Grosz
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Southeast Asia has moved to the centre of China–US rivalry
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
Books & arts
28 October 2025
Why write a book about the Battle of Shah Wali Kot, and why now?
Books & arts
28 October 2025
How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape
Books & arts
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
Books & arts
22 October 2025
A prize-winning account of Soviet-era human rights activists throws light on Putin’s Russia
Books & arts
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
Books & arts
17 October 2025
Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang
Books & arts
16 October 2025
An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire
Books & arts
15 October 2025
Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution
Books & arts
10 October 2025
Elizabeth Harrower’s two-part life
Books & arts
9 October 2025
Two very different books mark the anniversaries of two very different composers
Books & arts
2 October 2025
A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
29 September 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature, and the story of an orchestral work said to be performed somewhere in the world every fifteen minutes
Books & arts
25 September 2025
Statisticians are struggling to capture the twenty-first-century economy
Books & arts
24 September 2025
A “realist capable of idealism” offers a bracing analysis of a world gripped by emotion
Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia