Books & arts
19 September 2024
An immense database of early modern plays reveals “a veritable avian community, a magpie nest, each writer borrowing from each other”
Books & arts
10 September 2024
How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity
Books & arts
5 September 2024
Gideon Haigh explores a “submerged continent”
Books & arts
4 September 2024
Excavating family histories in India, Pakistan and Australia
Essays & reportage
3 September 2024
The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership
Books & arts
27 August 2024
The making of a paradoxical prime minister
Books & arts
21 August 2024
Historical detective work reveals more of the life of the city’s best-known brothel-keeper
Essays & reportage
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Books & arts
12 August 2024
The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
21 June 2024
Why did members of a historian’s family mysteriously go missing?
Books & arts
20 June 2024
Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
Books & arts
4 June 2024
From a “pinch of guilt” emerges a fine-grained biography of a bohemian figure during a vital period of environmental activism
Books & arts
23 May 2024
A former prime minister ponders providence
Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Books & arts
16 May 2024
Forty years of correspondence illuminates the careers of two important Australian writers
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?
From the archive
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time