Books & arts
2 June 2020
Books | A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
Books & arts
29 May 2020
Books | The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & arts
27 May 2020
Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & arts
25 May 2020
Books | Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Books | We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Music | What happens when the composer can really see the audience?
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Australian-based production is beginning its slow recovery
Books & arts
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own
Books & arts
12 May 2020
Books | Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
Books & arts
30 April 2020
Books | Should we embrace boredom?
Books & arts
29 April 2020
Books | Declining growth is inevitable in a maturing economy, according to economist Dietrich Vollrath
Books & arts
28 April 2020
Books | The Hacker and the State vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & arts
27 April 2020
Books | Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Despotism, reinvented, is here to stay (and could be coming our way)
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
Books & arts
25 April 2020
Music | Why has Australia been so much less generous to locked-down artists than Britain or Germany?
Books & arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
21 April 2020
A second selection of the best locked-down television
Books & arts
20 April 2020
Four recent books provide partial answers. But are they asking the right question?
Books & arts
17 April 2020
Books | Clear, direct and sometimes cheeky, Fire Country is about more than fire
Books & arts
15 April 2020
Books | London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Books & arts
14 April 2020
Music | What happens when a composer becomes a reporter?
Books & arts
10 April 2020
Our critic’s selection of the best of locked-down television
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate?
Books & arts
6 April 2020
Books | The latest analysis of Labor’s defeat last May relies on all the wrong people
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Books | How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century