Books & arts
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & arts
2 November 2022
A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing Crikey
Books & arts
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian
Books & arts
24 October 2022
Sumeyya Ilanbey has written a tough but fair-minded account of the high-handed premier
Essays & reportage
21 October 2022
A former colleague pays tribute to philosopher and Inside Story contributor Janna Thompson
Books & arts
4 October 2022
Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties
Essays & reportage
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
Books & arts
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & arts
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
Essays & reportage
29 September 2022
A small wooden box yields glimpses of vanished lives
From the archive
4 September 2022
Harold Holt’s attraction to danger gives his death an air of inevitability
Books & arts
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
Books & arts
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & arts
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
Books & arts
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
Essays & reportage
1 December 2021
Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
Books & arts
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True
Books & arts
5 November 2021
Bill Leak’s biographer offers a sympathetic but unflinching account of the controversial cartoonist’s life
From the archive
5 November 2021
The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it
Books & arts
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
From the archive
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
Books & arts
20 October 2021
Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap
Books & arts
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
Books & arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Books & arts
7 October 2021
An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family
From the archive
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Books & arts
27 September 2021
The first full biography of Scott Morrison tracks a sometimes rocky ride to the prime ministership