Essays & reportage
14 July 2018
On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Books & arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
International
4 July 2018
Profile | Filipino senator Risa Hontiveros faces jail for protecting witnesses to a brutal state-sponsored killing. Has the country’s politics come full circle?
From the archive
2 July 2018
Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Books & arts
19 June 2018
Books | Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
Books & arts
5 June 2018
Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir
Books & arts
23 May 2018
Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Books & arts
1 May 2018
Cinema | As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
From the archive
23 April 2018
A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer
From the archive
18 April 2018
It’s still happening, says the Yorta Yorta composer of Pecan Summer
Essays & reportage
12 April 2018
Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
Books & arts
11 April 2018
Books | The former academic and the pugnacious ex-soldier both tell compelling stories about life before politics
Essays & reportage
8 April 2018
The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia
Essays & reportage
28 March 2018
Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Books & arts
19 February 2018
Our TV critic reviews the ABC’s two-part documentary Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader, first screened in February 2018
Essays & reportage
8 February 2018
Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Books & arts
28 January 2018
The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes
Books & arts
5 January 2018
Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership
From the archive
27 December 2017
Despite her international fame, the Tasmanian-born pianist’s career was cut short by a conservative musical establishment
From the archive
17 December 2017
A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister on 17 December 1967
Books & arts
7 December 2017
Books | Is Gareth Evans’s “incorrigible optimism” evidence-based?
Books & arts
5 December 2017
Ken Inglis was not only a widely admired historian but also a gifted reporter and a sharp-eyed pioneer of press criticism
Books & arts
9 November 2017
Over a long career, Sylvia Lawson was a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the pioneering Nation, and Inside Story
Books & arts
8 November 2017
An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week
From the archive
3 November 2017
Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
Books & arts
15 October 2017
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
Books & arts
10 October 2017
What will Sam Dastyari do if he’s given a second chance? His autobiography only hints at an answer