Books & arts
21 January 2023
An account of the fluctuating fortunes of Radio Australia ends on an optimistic note
Books & arts
21 January 2023
A new book about urban mobility invites us to think differently about our streets: who do they belong to, what are they for, who gets to decide?
Books & arts
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & arts
20 December 2022
With holidays looming, our TV critic reviews three addictive series
Books & arts
20 December 2022
Why was a successful scientist and gifted artist airbrushed out of history?
Books & arts
14 December 2022
In her latest post-election book Niki Savva puts Scott Morrison through the wringer. But has she avoided all the pitfalls of the genre?
Books & arts
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
Books & arts
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Books & arts
9 December 2022
Katharine Murphy’s latest Quarterly Essay probes where politics meets personality
Books & arts
8 December 2022
How the all-conquering movement contained the seeds of its own destruction
Books & arts
7 December 2022
How Doctor Who found its distinctive sounds
Books & arts
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
Books & arts
28 November 2022
An urban sociologist probes the strengths and weaknesses of the “yes in my backyard” movement
Books & arts
24 November 2022
Could the success of smart, well-connected candidates realign conservative politics?
Books & arts
23 November 2022
The author of Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine responds to Mark Edele’s review of his book
Books & arts
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in The Wonder
Books & arts
22 November 2022
Two new books disagree about the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Books & arts
17 November 2022
Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia
Books & arts
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s Australian Deserts — winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Books & arts
15 November 2022
It depends, says historian Ian Kershaw
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
Books & arts
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Books & arts
10 November 2022
The stories we tell ourselves about our mental distress can have unexpected effects
Books & arts
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & arts
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
Books & arts
4 November 2022
A fresh musical performance can reveal unrecognised qualities
Books & arts
2 November 2022
A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing Crikey
Books & arts
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian