Books & arts
11 March 2026
Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O’Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of your life
Books & arts
11 March 2026
A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled
Books & arts
7 March 2026
The future “queen of muckraking” fled the rigid class system of her home country for a high-profile career in investigative journalism
Books & arts
6 March 2026
A sixteen-year prime ministership leaves more than a few traces
Books & arts
6 March 2026
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips circles around the question of what attracts us, and why
Books & arts
27 February 2026
“If writing always made sense to the writer, it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting,” says journalist Susan Orlean
Books & arts
26 February 2026
A memoir in the Oz-diplomat tradition
Books & arts
24 February 2026
Everyone knows about the controversy, but what about the novel?
National affairs
19 February 2026
Economist Alan Manning shows why Angus Taylor is about to find out that immigration policy is hard
Books & arts
18 February 2026
Friedrich Hayek’s successors used an expanded armoury to fight their war against the state. But what explains their receptive audience?
Essays & reportage
18 February 2026
Terry Hughes and his team’s maps brought the threat to the Great Barrier Reef into sharp international focus
Books & arts
29 January 2026
“The smartest man in television” and “a bona fide genius” reveal much to worry shareholders about Rupert Murdoch’s forays into American television
Books & arts
28 January 2026
A historian goes in search of an unpopular relative
Books & arts
21 January 2026
When does human rights pressure work?
Books & arts
19 January 2026
Multiple Asias will have growing power but less unity
Books & arts
15 January 2026
How freedom lost its way
Books & arts
7 January 2026
Does the make-or-break gaokao stand up to close examination?
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Perhaps a little more than Sean Kelly concedes in his latest Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
18 December 2025
In his new book, Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its head
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Social theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano says the “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t work. But is the alternative any more promising?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Liberal democracy is being assailed by far-right populists and autocrats. Who’s coming to its rescue?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Historian Shayne Breen goes deep into Tasmania’s past, and illuminates its present
Books & arts
8 December 2025
PIX magazine introduced photojournalism to a fast-changing mid-century society
Books & arts
5 December 2025
“In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer
Books & arts
1 December 2025
Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies?
Books & arts
18 November 2025
You’d be unwise to bet on it
Books & arts
17 November 2025
Does the 1929 Wall Street crash hold a message for our times?
Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
Books & arts
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
From the archive
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats