Books & arts
13 December 2021
Why book publishing can be a risky business
Books & arts
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
Books & arts
8 December 2021
Andrew Leigh compellingly describes the “black swan” events we could be facing, but are his proposals equal to the threat?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
Can philosophy really cure good people of bad thinking?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
Books & arts
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
Books & arts
19 November 2021
A mass photography project shows why an iconic image of the pandemic has proved elusive
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
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