Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Books & arts
16 May 2024
Forty years of correspondence illuminates the careers of two important Australian writers
Books & arts
10 May 2024
Under pressure from Canberra to fill the ships, how many “right-wing undesirables” did officials allow on boats to Australia?
Books & arts
10 May 2024
How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Nazis’ techniques back on them
Books & arts
29 April 2024
Should there be a limit on how rich you can be?
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Connecting everything to everything else didn’t dissolve power, it embedded it
Books & arts
24 April 2024
A Palestinian father’s story of life and death in the Occupied Territories
Books & arts
22 April 2024
Loosely “based on” true stories, two new films feature compelling performances
Books & arts
10 April 2024
“Father of the Commonwealth Bank,” promoter of the national capital, North American émigré — King O’Malley created his own history
Books & arts
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
Books & arts
8 April 2024
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek engages with “pre-apocalyptic” times
Books & arts
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Books & arts
4 April 2024
The National Party senator who campaigned against the far-right League of Rights exposes his strengths and weaknesses
Books & arts
2 April 2024
In the wake of a war and the Holocaust, how should music commemorate?
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
Books & arts
28 March 2024
Charmian Clift’s most ambitious but unfinished work illuminates her childhood in coastal New South Wales
Books & arts
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & arts
25 March 2024
Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them
Books & arts
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
Books & arts
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
Books & arts
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & arts
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & arts
11 March 2024
Milton Friedman brought wit and energy to his self-appointed task, but how influential did he prove to be?
Books & arts
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
Books & arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken