Books & arts
3 June 2026
Cheng Lei takes her story onto the stage
Books & arts
2 June 2026
Journalist Julia Cooke brings together three women writers as fearsome as they were fearless
Books & arts
1 June 2026
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s first novel struggles to engage with the self-destruction of the Weimar Republic
Books & arts
29 May 2026
A former World Bank economist takes aim at the West’s “civilising mission”
Books & arts
28 May 2026
Can the region avoid a cycle of competition, nationalism and disintegration?
Books & arts
28 May 2026
Football is important in Asif Kapadia’s new documentary, but it’s not at the crux of the narrative
Books & arts
27 May 2026
Confessions of a former declutterer
Books & arts
27 May 2026
Writer Martin McKenzie-Murray probes beneath the highly trained professionalism of first responders
Books & arts
25 May 2026
Beth Simone Noveck’s account of AI’s potential defines democracy too narrowly
Books & arts
22 May 2026
Australian schooling needs restructuring, but who will do it?
Books & arts
21 May 2026
Three new films echo real life in distinctive ways
Books & arts
18 May 2026
How do the “West” and “Eurasia” look from Australia?
Books & arts
12 May 2026
Australian writer Nadia Wheatley traces a year in the life of refugees at the former Belsen concentration camp
Books & arts
7 May 2026
How libraries made us
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Joko Widodo’s legacy was ultimately undermined by his dynastic ambitions
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Reflections on antisemitism
Books & arts
7 May 2026
Family dynamics dominate a new account of the attention-grabbing dynasty
Books & arts
5 May 2026
The first biography of a key figure in Australia’s twentieth-century literary life
Books & arts
30 April 2026
Patrick Mullins coaxes big themes out of the story of one of Sydney’s great thrusters
Books & arts
30 April 2026
Talking about death isn’t going to kill you, says anthropologist Hannah Gould
Books & arts
30 April 2026
A Liberal voter who hopes Labor will win? The Hawke–Keating era temporarily turned Australian politics on its head
Books & arts
27 April 2026
All along, the singer-songwriter has used a variety of vocal styles and instrumentations
Books & arts
23 April 2026
Gisèle Pelicot finds “my words, the thread in my history, an old story, deeply anchored in me”
Books & arts
20 April 2026
A son of two nations combines optimism and pessimism
Books & arts
18 April 2026
A pair of legendary movies emerged from another of Hollywood’s turbulent eras
Books & arts
17 April 2026
A political scientist argues that democratic institutions need to stand up to authoritarians. But does that simply kick the can down the road?
Books & arts
20 March 2026
A new account of Australia’s brutal first world war occupation of German New Guinea
Books & arts
11 March 2026
Two novelists fill in some of the gaps
Books & arts
11 March 2026
Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O’Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of our lives
Books & arts
11 March 2026
A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled