Books & arts
8 October 2012
A sympathetic biography of Gough Whitlam also recognises its subject’s shortcomings
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Books | The political and the personal illuminate each other in James Button’s fine account of a year in Canberra
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a hard-to-classify account of the influence of Graham Greene
Books & arts
20 July 2012
Jill Kitson reviews a new account of Barack Obama’s formative years
Books & arts
25 June 2012
Lyndon Johnson took on the frustrating role of vice-president to shake off the taint of Southern racism and conservatism. And the rest is history
Books & arts
20 April 2012
Almost nothing remains of the once imposing myth of Putin the energetic moderniser, writes Robert Horvath
Essays & reportage
13 April 2012
Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself
Books & arts
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks Jock Given
Books & arts
22 March 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews a new biography of the enigmatic Rick Farley
Books & arts
15 February 2012
Brian McFarlane on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael
From the archive
8 February 2012
Tormented by self-doubt, regretting missed opportunities, George Kennan helped shape the postwar world
Books & arts
18 January 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a huge collection of the correspondence of the very prolific P.G. Wodehouse
Books & arts
16 December 2011
Tim Thwaites reviews an oblique introduction to one of the great figures of the twentieth century
Books & arts
8 December 2011
Charles Dickens turns 200 in February. Richard Johnstone looks at a life that might have turned on the placement of an inkstand
Books & arts
24 October 2011
Geoffrey Barker reviews Philip Flood’s memoir of a career in the diplomatic service and as an agency head
Books & arts
13 September 2011
Judith Brett reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Books & arts
23 April 2011
Jill Kitson reviews a new account of the wartime leadership of the diminutive Australian prime minister
From the archive
17 February 2011
Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist who made anxiety funny
Books & arts
27 January 2011
IN BRIEF | Jill Kitson reviews The Prizefighter and the Playwright
Essays & reportage
20 January 2011
Robert Milliken recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture
Books & arts
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Essays & reportage
23 June 2010
The prime minister was angry. So what did he say? asks Jock Given
Books & arts
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child
Essays & reportage
19 January 2009
The author of Dreams from my Father has the character, intellect and instincts for the job, writes Klaus Neumann