Books & Arts
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & Arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Books & Arts
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
Books & Arts
15 July 2021
For singer-songwriter Martha Marlow, “your life experiences become your palette”
Books & Arts
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
Books & Arts
9 July 2021
With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented
Books & Arts
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
Books & Arts
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & Arts
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & Arts
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
Books & Arts
2 July 2021
The Nordic countries show how economies can be run differently
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