Books & arts
6 August 2021
The authors of Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & arts
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
Books & arts
5 August 2021
A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
From the archive
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
From the archive
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & arts
28 July 2021
“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
Books & arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & reportage
20 July 2021
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
Essays & reportage
16 July 2021
Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers
Books & arts
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
National affairs
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
Books & arts
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
Essays & reportage
9 July 2021
A journalist returns again and again to Pakistan’s largest city
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
From the archive
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
Books & arts
25 June 2021
Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality
Books & arts
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
Books & arts
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
National affairs
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
International
9 June 2021
The speed and range of the crackdown in Hong Kong has been dizzying
Books & arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
31 May 2021
Why the world needed a new edition of The Golden Ass
Books & arts
25 May 2021
Forty ways of looking at Veronica Gorrie’s Black and Blue
Books & arts
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
Books & arts
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & arts
19 May 2021
Stan Grant distils his travels into an argument about the future
From the archive
18 May 2021
Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration