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
4 October 2021
In a previously unpublished novel, Simone de Beauvoir traces a life-changing friendship
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
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”