Books & arts
8 January 2026
The Choral sends our reviewer back to Elgar
Books & arts
7 January 2026
Does the make-or-break gaokao stand up to close examination?
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Perhaps a little more than Sean Kelly concedes in his latest Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
18 December 2025
In his new book, Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its head
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Morning Wars, The Diplomat, The White Lotus, Slow Horses and Mystery Road: Origin returned to the small screen in 2025
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Social theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano says the “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t work. But is the alternative any more promising?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Liberal democracy is being assailed by far-right populists and autocrats. Who’s coming to its rescue?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Historian Shayne Breen goes deep into Tasmania’s past, and illuminates its present
Books & arts
11 December 2025
Víkingur Ólafsson invites us on a journey
Books & arts
8 December 2025
PIX magazine introduced photojournalism to a fast-changing mid-century society
Books & arts
5 December 2025
Sovereign is a nuanced portrayal of sovereign-citizen beliefs
Books & arts
5 December 2025
“In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer
Books & arts
1 December 2025
Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies?
Books & arts
30 November 2025
On the death of the playwright this weekend, a brief memory
Books & arts
21 November 2025
Rose Byrne gives a devastating, compulsively watchable performance as a woman on the edge
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
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