Books & arts
25 January 2023
A Financial Times columnist says yes, but the figures tell a different story
Books & arts
21 January 2023
An account of the fluctuating fortunes of Radio Australia ends on an optimistic note
Books & arts
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & arts
20 December 2022
Why was a successful scientist and gifted artist airbrushed out of history?
Books & arts
14 December 2022
In her latest post-election book Niki Savva puts Scott Morrison through the wringer. But has she avoided all the pitfalls of the genre?
Books & arts
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
Books & arts
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Books & arts
9 December 2022
Katharine Murphy’s latest Quarterly Essay probes where politics meets personality
Books & arts
8 December 2022
How the all-conquering movement contained the seeds of its own destruction
Books & arts
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
Books & arts
28 November 2022
An urban sociologist probes the strengths and weaknesses of the “yes in my backyard” movement
Books & arts
24 November 2022
Could the success of smart, well-connected candidates realign conservative politics?
Books & arts
23 November 2022
The author of Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine responds to Mark Edele’s review of his book
Books & arts
22 November 2022
Two new books disagree about the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Books & arts
17 November 2022
Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia
Retrospective
17 November 2022
The stories we tell ourselves about our mental distress can have unexpected effects
Books & arts
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s Australian Deserts — winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Essays & reportage
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to Telling Tennant’s Story, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Books & arts
15 November 2022
It depends, says historian Ian Kershaw
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
Books & arts
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Books & arts
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & arts
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
From the archive
4 November 2022
In this extract from Wandering with Intent, winner of this year’s Age Non-fiction Book of the Year award, Kim Mahood heads northwest on the Tanami Road
Books & arts
2 November 2022
A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing Crikey
Books & arts
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian
Books & arts
24 October 2022
Sumeyya Ilanbey has written a tough but fair-minded account of the high-handed premier
Books & arts
21 October 2022
Is technology endangering the doctor–patient relationship?