From the archive
9 December 2018
Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & Arts
7 December 2018
Books | Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist in her new biography
Books & Arts
3 December 2018
Books | Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
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
28 November 2018
Extract | A third federal win for Labor in 1987 broke the postwar pattern forever
Books & Arts
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Essays & Reportage
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Books & Arts
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & Arts
8 November 2018
Books | Teamed up with Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson seems set to again follow the trajectory documented by Kerry-Anne Walsh
From the archive
1 November 2018
New York managed to stop the school-to-crime pipeline without increasing the imprisonment rate. Meanwhile, Australia is investing heavily in jail-building
Books & Arts
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & Arts
24 October 2018
Books | Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
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
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & Arts
18 October 2018
Books | Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
Correspondents
17 October 2018
The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift
Books & Arts
12 October 2018
Books | Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy
Essays & Reportage
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
Books & Arts
9 October 2018
Review essay | Democracies might be threatened, but authoritarian regimes have their own problems
Books & Arts
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Books & Arts
27 September 2018
Review essay | Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & Arts
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Books & Arts
14 September 2018
Books | Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
Books & Arts
13 September 2018
Books | A former Bank of England official offers a warning about unelected decision-makers that Australia might already have heeded
Books & Arts
16 August 2018
Books | As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
Books & Arts
14 August 2018
Books | George Megalogenis gives a vivid account of the development Australian rules football. But what does it mean for politics?
Essays & Reportage
2 August 2018
Extract | As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the…
Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | Are the Big Four auditing companies facing their moment of truth?
Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | Nadia Wheatley discovers her mother’s two great loves
