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?
Books & arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
15 April 2020
Books | London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Essays & reportage
13 April 2020
How a daughter’s death caused by Spanish flu sent a family halfway across the globe
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Books | Biographer Sylvia Martin turns her lens onto herself
Essays & reportage
5 March 2020
Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
Essays & reportage
17 February 2020
Extract | For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
Essays & reportage
10 February 2020
The discovery of a remarkable piece of writing by Aileen Palmer adds poignancy to her later life