Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Essays & reportage
28 August 2023
Despite a series of obstacles, post-Soviet Ukraine has been moving in the right direction
Books & arts
26 August 2023
A seasoned analyst outlines the strategy Australia should have debated before the latest bout of defence spending
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Books & arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
From the archive
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
National affairs
11 August 2023
Morrison’s fall, the teals’ rise, Labor’s victory: the editors of a new post-election book survey the 2022 campaign
Books & arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & arts
10 August 2023
The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Resentment can be a potent — and not always destructive — motivator in political life
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
8 August 2023
A new survey of heritage protection highlights Australia’s uneven record as it prepares to host next month’s International Council on Monuments and Sites assembly
Books & arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
Books & arts
3 August 2023
How a restless party found a new way of thinking about socialism
Books & arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & arts
31 July 2023
Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock
Books & arts
28 July 2023
David Graeber’s latest book isn’t his best, but still we love it
Books & arts
28 July 2023
The philosopher presciently identified an age awash in “bullshit”
Books & arts
26 July 2023
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century phrenologists illuminates how ideas spread
Books & arts
26 July 2023
A philosopher considers the case for abolishing prisons
Books & arts
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
Retrospective
16 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
Books & arts
13 July 2023
A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be
Books & arts
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
Books & arts
12 July 2023
Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan
Books & arts
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
Books & arts
5 July 2023
Is there a case for gradual change in a radical age?