Books & arts
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True
Books & arts
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Books & arts
11 November 2021
Janet McCalman’s new book throws fresh light on Australia’s convict history
Books & arts
9 November 2021
Our minds might wander during musical performances, but does that really matter?
Books & arts
5 November 2021
Bill Leak’s biographer offers a sympathetic but unflinching account of the controversial cartoonist’s life
Books & arts
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
Books & arts
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
Books & arts
27 October 2021
Billed as a horror story, Midnight Mass audaciously explores an isolated community
Books & arts
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Books & arts
20 October 2021
Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap
Books & arts
16 October 2021
Critics Christopher Ricks and Wilfrid Mellers approach music from quite different directions
Books & arts
12 October 2021
How Fortescue Metals Group was bested by a tenacious campaign in the Pilbara
Books & arts
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
Books & arts
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
Books & arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Books & arts
7 October 2021
An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family
Books & arts
4 October 2021
Do the makers of ABC TV’s Fires have enough critical distance from their subject?
Books & arts
27 September 2021
The first full biography of Scott Morrison tracks a sometimes rocky ride to the prime ministership
Books & arts
25 September 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
Books & arts
20 September 2021
Have the addictive qualities of Elena Ferrante’s novels distracted readers from their literariness?
Books & arts
17 September 2021
What happens when musicians play together without the cues they’ve come to expect?
Books & arts
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
Books & arts
15 September 2021
Leïla Slimani vividly reimagines her grandmother’s life as a young French woman in Morocco
Books & arts
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Books & arts
9 September 2021
The Russian president’s party might be in trouble — but so is the opposition
Books & arts
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
Books & arts
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change