Books & arts
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Books & arts
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
Books & arts
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
Books & arts
10 April 2025
A new film rises to the challenge of adapting a heartbreaking Irish novella
Books & arts
8 April 2025
As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
Books & arts
8 April 2025
What should we learn from the failings of the national domestic violence prevention strategy?
Books & arts
4 April 2025
Thirty-six year after its premiere, there is finally a recording of Michael Tippett’s problematic last opera
Books & arts
31 March 2025
Is hopeful pessimism the best response to climate change?
Books & arts
28 March 2025
Can “tribal impulses” really be harnessed for the greater good?
Books & arts
27 March 2025
Writer-director Paul Schrader is reunited with his American Gigolo star, Richard Gere, in a tale of mortality, morality and deception
Books & arts
25 March 2025
An Australian journalist’s slow journey from Fiji to New Guinea
Books & arts
24 March 2025
A new biography wrestles with the challenge of capturing a decade and a half of Miles Franklin’s life
Books & arts
17 March 2025
An American journalist lifts the veil on a company that might exemplify China’s future
Books & arts
13 March 2025
For writer Charles King, Handel’s Messiah offers “the staggering possibility that the world might turn out all right”
Books & arts
11 March 2025
New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia
Books & arts
11 March 2025
Is not knowing sometimes more rational than knowing?
Books & arts
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens
Books & arts
27 February 2025
Thirty-five years later, Media Watch needs an overhaul
Books & arts
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
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