Books & arts
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker joined the ranks of France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
Essays & reportage
10 November 2025
The cartoonist’s dazzling artwork and salty wit combine to great effect
Books & arts
9 November 2025
Three writers talk about what could and couldn’t be said at Erin Patterson’s murder trial
Books & arts
3 November 2025
Done properly, psychoanalysis doesn’t provide ready answers, says practitioner Stephen Grosz
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
Books & arts
28 October 2025
Why write a book about the Battle of Shah Wali Kot, and why now?
Books & arts
28 October 2025
How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape
Books & arts
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
Books & arts
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
Books & arts
16 October 2025
An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire
Books & arts
15 October 2025
Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution
Books & arts
10 October 2025
Elizabeth Harrower’s two-part life
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
25 September 2025
Statisticians are struggling to capture the twenty-first-century economy
Books & arts
24 September 2025
A “realist capable of idealism” offers a bracing analysis of a world gripped by emotion
Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
19 September 2025
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
Books & arts
17 September 2025
A former insider weighs into the debate about Canberra’s strategy
Books & arts
16 September 2025
A challenging account of war and migration brings a family’s story to the sweep of recent history
Books & arts
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
Books & arts
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
International
9 September 2025
Gore Vidal’s message for Americans: “We are Trump; he is us”
Books & arts
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Books & arts
27 August 2025
The European Union’s relations with its member states could help us navigate the process of treaty-making