Books & arts
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & arts
23 June 2023
Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & arts
22 June 2023
Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead reviewed
Books & arts
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & arts
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Books & arts
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That?
Books & arts
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Books & arts
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
Books & arts
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
Books & arts
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & arts
30 May 2023
Succession’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & arts
25 May 2023
Inspired by Hong Kong’s rise, countries all over the world created free-market enclaves. But who has really benefited?
Books & arts
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Books & arts
19 May 2023
A new breed of advisers is helping bridge TV’s gap between reality and dramatisation
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & arts
16 May 2023
English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history
Books & arts
15 May 2023
Do asset managers own the world?
Books & arts
12 May 2023
Writer Kapka Kassabova continues her beguiling exploration of the Balkans
Books & arts
8 May 2023
Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany?
Books & arts
2 May 2023
What’s missing from Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night is as compelling as what’s on the screen
Books & arts
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Books & arts
26 April 2023
Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues
Books & arts
12 April 2023
A provincial professor tries to cut through
Books & arts
3 April 2023
Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
Books & arts
21 March 2023
A distinguished historian uses one family’s story to illuminate the borderland between Europe and Russia
Books & arts
17 March 2023
Can computer technology be relied on to increase equality?
Books & arts
17 March 2023
Democracy has spread in a distinctive way among Asia’s success stories
Books & arts
14 March 2023
Tanya Plibersek’s biographer makes the case for her “strength of understanding and coolness of judgement”