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
Books & arts
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
Books & arts
14 February 2024
Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & arts
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & arts
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
Books & arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & arts
23 January 2024
Three photo exhibitions map out different points on the spectrum between reality and art
Books & arts
22 January 2024
How technology, migration and population transformed crops, foods and ways of eating
Books & arts
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & arts
15 January 2024
What One Life may achieve
Books & arts
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians