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
Essays & reportage
22 November 2024
Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work
Books & arts
11 November 2024
TV’s So Long Marianne ventures into an ethical minefield
Books & arts
1 November 2024
Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness
Books & arts
1 November 2024
Our reviewer savours an idiosyncratic account of the Queen, on and off duty
Books & arts
1 November 2024
A Lutheran pastor introduced to remote communities a different way of thinking about schooling for Aboriginal children
Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Essays & reportage
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
Books & arts
16 October 2024
A new biography assesses the record of Labor’s first prime minister
Books & arts
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
Books & arts
24 September 2024
Memoirs of “a weaver at the loom” through four presidencies
Books & arts
23 September 2024
A double biography reveals the creative partnership between Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson
Books & arts
19 September 2024
An immense database of early modern plays reveals “a veritable avian community, a magpie nest, each writer borrowing from each other”
Books & arts
10 September 2024
How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity
Books & arts
5 September 2024
Gideon Haigh explores a “submerged continent”
Books & arts
4 September 2024
Excavating family histories in India, Pakistan and Australia
Essays & reportage
3 September 2024
The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership
Books & arts
27 August 2024
The making of a paradoxical prime minister
Books & arts
21 August 2024
Historical detective work reveals more of the life of the city’s best-known brothel-keeper
Essays & reportage
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Books & arts
12 August 2024
The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
21 June 2024
How did people go missing in a historian’s family?
Books & arts
20 June 2024
Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
Books & arts
4 June 2024
From a “pinch of guilt” emerges a fine-grained biography of a bohemian figure during a vital period of environmental activism
Books & arts
23 May 2024
A former prime minister ponders providence
Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Books & arts
16 May 2024
Forty years of correspondence illuminates the careers of two important Australian writers