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
Books & arts
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Books & arts
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
Books & arts
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Books & arts
14 May 2021
Who exactly were the New Romantics?
Books & arts
14 May 2021
A biography of biochemist Jennifer Doudna raises hard questions about where genetic research is heading
Books & arts
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Books & arts
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & arts
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
Books & arts
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
Essays & reportage
24 April 2021
Extract | Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation
Books & arts
16 April 2021
Books | The region that gave the world the word “balkanised” proves a fascinating setting for a travel book with a difference
From the archive
16 April 2021
How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?