Books & arts
3 January 2024
A new biography of Frank Moorhouse approaches its subject differently
Books & arts
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
Books & arts
22 December 2023
Newly translated, Azerbaijan-born Banine’s memoirs chronicle her extraordinary early years
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
Books & arts
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
Books & arts
15 December 2023
It’s not just slimmer royalty payments for his compositions that make our music writer look back wistfully
Books & arts
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
Books & arts
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
Books & arts
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & arts
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
Books & arts
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
7 November 2023
A murder case looked different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
Books & arts
6 November 2023
The new Rolling Stones album circles back to the band’s earliest days
Books & arts
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s Consent Laid Bare part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & arts
4 November 2023
An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples
Books & arts
3 November 2023
Weren’t these guys dying out?
Books & arts
30 October 2023
A sociologist offers a more sophisticated take on generational differences, but problems remain
Books & arts
27 October 2023
Writer John McPhee reveals his secret of longevity
Books & arts
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
Books & arts
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
Books & arts
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Books & arts
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography