Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Chair’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
Books & arts
31 August 2021
There’s plenty wrong with how the Murray–Darling is being managed, but Wall Street isn’t the culprit to target
Books & arts
23 August 2021
TV is having trouble explaining the unexplained
Books & arts
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
Books & arts
16 August 2021
A pragmatist’s vision for better government
Books & arts
16 August 2021
Could constitutional monarchies be the best of a bad lot?
Books & arts
10 August 2021
Has business changed the culture of childcare?
Books & arts
10 August 2021
Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind
Books & arts
8 August 2021
Gillian Tett, the woman who predicted the global financial crisis, uses anthropological tools to probe how business works
Books & arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
Books & arts
6 August 2021
The authors of Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & arts
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
5 August 2021
A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
Books & arts
30 July 2021
Would Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s latest series benefit from a little more reality?
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
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