Books & arts
26 June 2026
“Our company is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values,” says Rupert Murdoch. It’s not an edifying sight
Books & arts
24 June 2026
Australia’s turn-of-the century PM has cast a long shadow over his successors
Books & arts
19 June 2026
Siri Hustvedt’s memoir captures how grieving grips the mind and the body
Books & arts
17 June 2026
Nora Kate Weston and Eirene Mort lived together for sixty years in a “homosocial” world of women artworkers
Books & arts
12 June 2026
A former USAID staffer sticks his head above the parapet
Books & arts
12 June 2026
What can history tell us about identifying and resisting political manipulation?
Books & arts
10 June 2026
Seasoned financial analyst Logan Wright certainly thinks so
Books & arts
8 June 2026
A new biography of Jan Morris, the travel writer who became a trans woman
Books & arts
3 June 2026
An epitome of evil might not be the best standard to measure ourselves against
Books & arts
3 June 2026
Three books shed new light on a dazzling and peripatetic thinker — and a motley cast of his contemporaries
Books & arts
3 June 2026
Cheng Lei takes her story onto the stage
Books & arts
2 June 2026
Journalist Julia Cooke brings together three women writers as fearsome as they were fearless
Books & arts
1 June 2026
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s first novel struggles to engage with the self-destruction of the Weimar Republic
Books & arts
29 May 2026
A former World Bank economist takes aim at the West’s “civilising mission”
Books & arts
28 May 2026
Can the region avoid a cycle of competition, nationalism and disintegration?
Books & arts
28 May 2026
Football is important in Asif Kapadia’s new documentary, but it’s not at the crux of the narrative
Books & arts
27 May 2026
Confessions of a former declutterer
Books & arts
27 May 2026
Writer Martin McKenzie-Murray probes beneath the highly trained professionalism of first responders
Books & arts
25 May 2026
Beth Simone Noveck’s account of AI’s potential defines democracy too narrowly
Books & arts
22 May 2026
Australian schooling needs restructuring, but who will do it?
Books & arts
21 May 2026
Three new films echo real life in distinctive ways
Books & arts
18 May 2026
How do the “West” and “Eurasia” look from Australia?
Books & arts
12 May 2026
Australian writer Nadia Wheatley traces a year in the life of refugees at the former Belsen concentration camp
Books & arts
7 May 2026
How libraries made us
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Joko Widodo’s legacy was ultimately undermined by his dynastic ambitions
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Reflections on antisemitism
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Family dynamics dominate a new account of the attention-grabbing dynasty
Books & arts
5 May 2026
The first biography of a key figure in Australia’s twentieth-century literary life
Books & arts
30 April 2026
Patrick Mullins coaxes big themes out of the story of one of Sydney’s great thrusters
Books & arts
30 April 2026
Talking about death isn’t going to kill you, says anthropologist Hannah Gould