Books & arts
24 April 2024
Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders
Books & arts
10 April 2024
“Father of the Commonwealth Bank,” promoter of the national capital, North American émigré — King O’Malley created his own history
Books & arts
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Books & arts
4 April 2024
The National Party senator who campaigned against the far-right League of Rights exposes his strengths and weaknesses
Books & arts
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
Books & arts
28 March 2024
Charmian Clift’s most ambitious but unfinished work illuminates her childhood in coastal New South Wales
Books & arts
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & arts
25 March 2024
Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them
Books & arts
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
Books & arts
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
Books & arts
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & arts
11 March 2024
Milton Friedman brought wit and energy to his self-appointed task, but how influential did he prove to be?
International
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
Essays & reportage
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
Books & arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
Books & arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & arts
3 January 2024
A new biography of Frank Moorhouse approaches its subject differently
Books & arts
22 December 2023
Newly translated, Azerbaijan-born Banine’s memoirs chronicle her extraordinary early years
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
Books & arts
3 November 2023
Weren’t these guys dying out?
Books & arts
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Books & arts
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & arts
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Essays & reportage
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”