Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman applies a forensic eye to the history wars battle between Manning Clark and Peter Ryan
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
Books & arts
16 October 2021
Critics Christopher Ricks and Wilfrid Mellers approach music from quite different directions
Books & arts
12 October 2021
How Fortescue Metals Group was bested by a tenacious campaign in the Pilbara
Books & arts
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
Books & arts
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
From the archive
4 October 2021
Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables is far more than an abandoned curiosity
Essays & reportage
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
From the archive
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Books & arts
27 September 2021
The first full biography of Scott Morrison tracks a sometimes rocky ride to the prime ministership
Books & arts
25 September 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
Books & arts
20 September 2021
Have the addictive qualities of Elena Ferrante’s novels distracted readers from their literariness?
Books & arts
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
Books & arts
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Essays & reportage
13 September 2021
In ways that still resonate, the program to drag the economy out of the Great Depression changed Americans’ relationships with politics, economics and each other
Books & arts
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
Books & arts
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
Books & arts
31 August 2021
There’s plenty wrong with how the Murray–Darling is being managed, but Wall Street isn’t the culprit to target