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
If it reminded us of nothing else, the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth underlined his extraordinary energy
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