Books & arts
24 September 2015
Books | Bruce Duncan reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
Books & arts
21 September 2015
Books | Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
Essays & reportage
24 July 2015
Tom Griffiths welcomes a profound exploration of intergenerational memory
Books & arts
10 June 2015
Books | What happens when a party of true believers led by a ferociously motivated politician takes on a dying government? Robin Jeffrey charts an enigmatic…
Essays & reportage
25 May 2015
ASIO’s ambivalence about Manning Clark might not have incited a diplomatic training incident, but Clark’s response was uncompromising
From the archive
20 May 2015
Michael Cooney’s account of his years as prime ministerial speechwriter helps explain what went wrong
Books & arts
19 May 2015
Books | Martin Edmond’s dual biography of Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira illuminates a remarkable friendship, writes Eleanor Hogan
Books & arts
15 May 2015
Books | A new biography captures Thea Astley’s idiosyncrasies and contradictions, and the qualities of her fiction, writes Susan Lever
Essays & reportage
5 May 2015
This extract from her award-winning memoir opens as Amirah Inglis and her mother arrive in Melbourne from Europe in 1929
Essays & reportage
4 May 2015
Sara Dowse remembers the writer Amirah Inglis, who died on Saturday
Books & arts
23 April 2015
Books | Tony Windsor made an indelible mark on federal politics, writes Brett Evans. And he might be considering a comeback
Books & arts
20 April 2015
Books | Sara Dowse reviews the autobiography of the former Queensland premier
Books & arts
1 April 2015
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, now in its second screen version, recounts a remarkable life amid the upheavals of a century ago, writes Brian McFarlane
Essays & reportage
23 March 2015
“There was nothing before Oxford, really,” says Malcolm Fraser in this extract from his political memoirs, written with Margaret Simons
Books & arts
3 February 2015
Books | Three men and a city in turmoil. Andrew Dodd reviews two new books about Sydney’s formative years
Books & arts
28 January 2015
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Wild, Birdman and The Imitation Game
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Books | John Howard’s view of the Menzies years is partial in important respects, but he offers a valuable perspective on an important period
Books & arts
27 October 2014
Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett
Books & arts
22 October 2014
Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
15 October 2014
Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Essays & reportage
13 October 2014
Expelled from the Communist Party for not toeing the line, Lyndall Ryan's parents were faced with a dilemma when Robert Menzies’s government tried to ban the party
Books & arts
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal
Books & arts
19 September 2014
Stuart Macintyre reviews a new biography of the titan of Australian newspaper proprietors, David Syme
Books & arts
5 September 2014
Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre
Books & arts
20 June 2014
A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre
Books & arts
12 June 2014
Books | Best known for her undercover exposé Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes Sara Dowse
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
5 March 2014
The life stories of four mining magnates illuminate where Australia’s economy is headed, writes Michael Gilding. The political and social effects could be profound
Books & arts
21 February 2014
Politics is hard and democracy is messy. Brett Evans reviews two new books that help explain why it doesn’t all end in disaster