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?
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens
Books & arts
14 February 2025
Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts
13 February 2025
A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
Essays & reportage
28 January 2025
Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition
Books & arts
16 January 2025
Nothing exposes the famed neurologist as much as his letters
Books & arts
15 January 2025
There was much more to the waspish writer than memorable (and misremembered) one-liners
Books & arts
14 December 2024
Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Books & arts
5 December 2024
The former British PM’s highly readable memoir is just a little too tidy