Books & arts
12 June 2025
Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?
Books & arts
12 June 2025
Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
Books & arts
4 June 2025
Two American drama series tip-toe around the country’s plight
Books & arts
30 May 2025
The familiar and the imaginary come together in two new films
Books & arts
27 May 2025
Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches
Books & arts
26 May 2025
French sociologist Didier Eribon goes in search of his working-class mother
Books & arts
26 May 2025
The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics
Books & arts
23 May 2025
The American president’s film and TV tariff plan has its genesis as far back as the 1940s
Books & arts
23 May 2025
Old ties were broken forever by the time the second world war drew to a close
Books & arts
16 May 2025
With an eighth instalment, The Final Reckoning, has Tom Cruise really embarked on his last Mission: Impossible?
Books & arts
16 May 2025
What is Spotify doing to music?
Books & arts
13 May 2025
Could diplomacy have changed the course of postwar Chinese history?
Books & arts
2 May 2025
A deep dive into the archives of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has some startling moments
Books & arts
29 April 2025
Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era
Books & arts
29 April 2025
A sociologist’s dissection of hyperglobalisation and its legacies
Books & arts
25 April 2025
Sport and gambling are becoming dangerously intertwined on both sides of the Pacific
Books & arts
24 April 2025
A new biography of Beatrice Faust illuminates a distinct strand of Australian feminism
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