Books & Arts
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
Books & Arts
25 June 2021
Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality
Books & Arts
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & Arts
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & Arts
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
Books & Arts
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
Books & Arts
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & Arts
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
Books & Arts
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & Arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & Arts
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & Arts
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & Arts
31 May 2021
Why the world needed a new edition of The Golden Ass
Books & Arts
25 May 2021
Forty ways of looking at Veronica Gorrie’s Black and Blue
Books & Arts
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
Books & Arts
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & Arts
21 May 2021
The departure of Australia’s last correspondents from Beijing has made a volatile situation worse
Books & Arts
21 May 2021
With populists emerging badly from the pandemic, public opinion could be shifting in favour of good government
Books & Arts
19 May 2021
Stan Grant distils his travels into an argument about the future
Books & Arts
18 May 2021
Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration
Books & Arts
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & Arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & Arts
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
Books & Arts
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & Arts
14 May 2021
Who exactly were the New Romantics?
Books & Arts
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & Arts
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Books & Arts
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & Arts
1 May 2021
In search of the artist behind the Art Gallery of South Australia’s widely praised exhibition
Books & Arts
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
