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Books & Arts Glenn Nicholls 20 October 2021 Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap
Books & Arts Hamish McDonald 12 October 2021 A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency Books & Arts Brian McFarlane 8 October 2021 Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda Books & Arts Sylvia Martin 7 October 2021 An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family Books & Arts Robin Jeffrey 27 September 2021 How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Books & Arts Brett Evans 27 September 2021 The first full biography of Scott Morrison tracks a sometimes rocky ride to the prime ministership
Books & Arts Drusilla Modjeska 25 September 2021 A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer Essays & Reportage Andrew Chalk 17 September 2021 Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten Books & Arts Sara Dowse 15 September 2021 Leïla Slimani vividly reimagines her grandmother’s life as a young French woman in Morocco Essays & Reportage David Hayes 14 September 2021 A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituaries’ campaigning British hero-journalist, who died a year ago this month
Long read David Hayes 14 September 2021 A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituaries’ campaigning British hero-journalist, who died a year ago this month. Here, the full text of David Hayes’s essay on a…
Books & Arts Andrew Ford 10 August 2021 Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 7 August 2021 How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities Essays & Reportage Tom Griffiths 6 August 2021 Mandy Martin, Australian artist Books & Arts Zora Simic 6 August 2021 Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & Arts Janna Thompson 28 July 2021 “I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & Arts Patrick Mullins 7 July 2021 Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt Books & Arts Hamish McDonald 25 June 2021 A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years Books & Arts Zora Simic 11 June 2021 Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal” Books & Arts Ian Hancock 4 June 2021 Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & Arts Seumas Spark 17 May 2021 One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & Arts Martha Macintyre 16 May 2021 How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman Books & Arts Janna Thompson 14 May 2021 A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading Correspondents Klaus Neumann 20 April 2021 A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 16 April 2021 A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
Books & Arts Zora Simic 10 April 2021 Books | Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
Books & Arts Zora Simic 19 March 2021 Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug Essays & Reportage Mark Baker 19 March 2021 Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998 Books & Arts Patrick Mullins 19 March 2021 Books | Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy? Books & Arts Sara Dowse 5 March 2021 Books | Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war