Books & arts
12 February 2021
Books | Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
Books & arts
11 February 2021
Books | A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
5 February 2021
Books | A freewheeling memoir is less about the author than the people and forces that shaped him
Books & arts
8 December 2020
Books | How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Essays & reportage
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
From the archive
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
Books & arts
3 November 2020
Journalist Evan Osnos profiles a politician with a half century’s momentum
Essays & reportage
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
Books & arts
27 October 2020
Books | Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & arts
19 October 2020
Pioneering Australian publisher Carmen Callil — who died this weeek — traces her family’s trajectory
Essays & reportage
5 October 2020
Remembered in Australia mainly for her relationship with Vida Goldstein, Cecilia John’s story took a different course after the first world war
Essays & reportage
2 October 2020
A former colleague recalls working with the reformist Labor minister
Books & arts
30 September 2020
Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & arts
9 September 2020
Music | Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & arts
31 August 2020
Books | Is there a pattern to the presidency of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo?
Essays & reportage
18 August 2020
Harry and Meghan’s new home comes with a history of American aristocrats, primate research and the quest for the contraceptive pill
Books & arts
6 August 2020
Books | Three intersecting figures illuminate an age that is still with us
Essays & reportage
29 July 2020
How one family negotiated identities between different Italies
From the archive
21 July 2020
Elizabeth Harrower’s fiction vividly evokes mid-twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
20 July 2020
Books | Christopher Pyne’s memoir reveals more than he might have intended about the state of Australian politics
Books & arts
16 July 2020
Books | The Roman emperors had everything — except the loyalty that would protect them from an untimely demise
Books & arts
9 July 2020
Books | Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
Books & arts
8 July 2020
Books | Internationally renowned Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe was also deeply involved in labour politics
Essays & reportage
23 June 2020
For one of Australia’s foremost biographers, the impulse to tell life stories has never gone away
Books & arts
10 June 2020
Books | A riotous reimagining of the trans memoir
Books & arts
5 June 2020
Books | A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & arts
2 June 2020
Books | A new book rescues two Labor prime ministers, James Scullin and John Curtin, from caricature
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Books | We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
Essays & reportage
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?