Recovered Lives
7 March 2019
Roma Catherine Gilchrist (1909–83), socialist, feminist and peace activist
Recovered Lives
7 March 2019
A cache of letters reveals a fierce ambition and a fiery struggle
Books & arts
19 February 2019
Books | Stoked by cigarettes and whiskey, Kenneth Cook kept writing until the end
Books & arts
6 February 2019
Cinema | Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in Mary Queen of Scots
Essays & reportage
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & arts
14 January 2019
Books | “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
20 December 2018
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Essays & reportage
17 December 2018
A social justice pioneer’s secret life is unveiled in a new book
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
Essays & reportage
21 November 2018
Despite his warning to young journalists, Alan Reid was both observer and player in Parliament House. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
Essays & reportage
21 November 2018
The writer who remade the women’s column has been recognised by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
Books & arts
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Books & arts
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & arts
22 October 2018
Books | Is Barnaby Joyce on the rise again? On the evidence of his memoir, things could get ugly
Books & arts
18 October 2018
Books | Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
Essays & reportage
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
From the archive
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Essays & reportage
14 July 2018
On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
Books & arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Correspondents
4 July 2018
Profile | Filipino senator Risa Hontiveros faces jail for protecting witnesses to a brutal state-sponsored killing. Has the country’s politics come full circle?
From the archive
2 July 2018
Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Books & arts
19 June 2018
Books | Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
Books & arts
5 June 2018
Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir
Books & arts
23 May 2018
Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Books & arts
1 May 2018
Cinema | As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
From the archive
23 April 2018
A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer