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
Books & arts
25 September 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
Essays & reportage
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Books & arts
15 September 2021
Leïla Slimani vividly reimagines her grandmother’s life as a young French woman in Morocco
Essays & reportage
14 September 2021
A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
Books & arts
10 August 2021
Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind
Books & arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
Essays & reportage
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & arts
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
From the archive
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
Books & arts
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
International
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
Books & arts
16 April 2021
A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
Books & arts
10 April 2021
Books | Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
From the archive
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
Essays & reportage
19 March 2021
Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Books & arts
19 March 2021
Books | Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
Books & arts
5 March 2021
Books | Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war