From the archive
4 September 2022
Harold Holt’s attraction to danger gives his death an air of inevitability
Books & arts
4 September 2022
Both Britain and Australia need to overcome a curious amnesia about their dealings with China
Books & arts
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
Books & arts
4 September 2022
Some exiles are enriched by their journey, others “killed and yet alive”
Books & arts
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
Books & arts
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Essays & reportage
17 December 2021
Singapore is good at solving economic problems, but its political stagnation is stopping it from dealing with urgent social challenges
Books & arts
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
Books & arts
16 December 2021
An insider’s account of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 exposes the wider failings of the Morrison government
Books & arts
13 December 2021
Why book publishing can be a risky business
Books & arts
8 December 2021
Andrew Leigh compellingly describes the “black swan” events we could be facing, but are his proposals equal to the threat?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
Can philosophy really cure good people of bad thinking?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
Books & arts
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
From the archive
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
Books & arts
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True
Books & arts
11 November 2021
Janet McCalman’s new book throws fresh light on Australia’s convict history
Books & arts
5 November 2021
Bill Leak’s biographer offers a sympathetic but unflinching account of the controversial cartoonist’s life
From the archive
5 November 2021
The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it
Books & arts
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
Books & arts
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
Books & arts
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
From the archive
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Books & arts
20 October 2021
Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap