Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
Books & arts
15 October 2025
Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution
Books & arts
10 October 2025
Elizabeth Harrower’s two-part life
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
Books & arts
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Books & arts
21 August 2025
Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly”
Other Voices
20 August 2025
With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique
Books & arts
13 August 2025
“Go to Australia. Now,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that
Books & arts
6 August 2025
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s campaign against nuclear annihilation
Essays & reportage
30 July 2025
Eighty years ago, with the Pacific war drawing to a close, the celebrated war correspondent set out on a perilous spiritual journey
National affairs
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are…
National affairs
22 July 2025
The former Treasury head was revealed to be an arch-reactionary in his long second career
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
9 July 2025
A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back
Books & arts
4 July 2025
As Labor signals greater boldness, a seasoned policymaker and former MP describes how it’s done
Books & arts
27 June 2025
An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Books & arts
16 June 2025
The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her causes
Books & arts
13 June 2025
It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
26 May 2025
French sociologist Didier Eribon goes in search of his working-class mother
Essays & reportage
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Books & arts
24 April 2025
A new biography of Beatrice Faust illuminates a distinct strand of Australian feminism
Essays & reportage
24 April 2025
Sidney Nolan’s remarkable Gallipoli series brought together disparate strands of the artist’s life
Books & arts
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
Essays & reportage
4 April 2025
A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
Books & arts
24 March 2025
A new biography wrestles with the challenge of capturing a decade and a half of Miles Franklin’s life
Books & arts
13 March 2025
For writer Charles King, Handel’s Messiah offers “the staggering possibility that the world might turn out all right”
Books & arts
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?