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?”
Books & arts
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
Books & arts
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Books & arts
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Books & arts
1 September 2023
Frank Moorhouse’s first biographer captures a life in motion
Books & arts
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Books & arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
From the archive
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
Books & arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives