Books & arts
30 July 2025
A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview
Books & arts
23 July 2025
Australia’s latest book by a former political prisoner paints a vivid picture of survival inside one of China’s state security jails
Books & arts
22 July 2025
The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder
Books & arts
18 July 2025
Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation
Books & arts
18 July 2025
If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
9 July 2025
A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back
Books & arts
4 July 2025
Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Books & arts
1 July 2025
A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany
Books & arts
30 June 2025
A new book explores the culture of philately
Books & arts
27 June 2025
An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new
Books & arts
27 June 2025
Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing
Books & arts
27 June 2025
Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Classicist Robert Garland leads a tour of ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Books & arts
24 June 2025
The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific
Essays & reportage
17 June 2025
Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Books & arts
13 June 2025
It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays
Books & arts
12 June 2025
Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?
Books & arts
12 June 2025
Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
Essays & reportage
5 June 2025
How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers
Books & arts
27 May 2025
Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches
Books & arts
26 May 2025
French sociologist Didier Eribon goes in search of his working-class mother
Books & arts
26 May 2025
The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics
Books & arts
23 May 2025
Old ties were broken forever by the time the second world war drew to a close
Essays & reportage
20 May 2025
How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia