Books & arts
11 March 2025
New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia
Books & arts
11 March 2025
Is not knowing sometimes more rational than knowing?
Books & arts
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens
Books & arts
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Books & arts
21 February 2025
A chilling account of occupied southeastern Ukraine reveals a systematic program of Russification combined with chaos, brutality and corruption
Books & arts
21 February 2025
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum hasn’t quite nailed the problem, or the possible solutions
Books & arts
20 February 2025
A high-profile lawyer defends employees’ rights to free speech, regardless of their politics
Books & arts
14 February 2025
Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts
13 February 2025
A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship
Books & arts
10 February 2025
From the late nineteenth century, new lightweight cameras opened up the world in ways their manufacturers didn’t anticipate
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Gisèle Pélicot’s daughter explores the repercussions of her father’s crimes
Books & arts
31 January 2025
What makes a twentieth-century novel?
Essays & reportage
28 January 2025
Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition
Books & arts
28 January 2025
Who is entitled to be a Native American?
Books & arts
27 January 2025
Language flows in unexpected ways
Books & arts
16 January 2025
Nothing exposes the famed neurologist as much as his letters
Books & arts
15 January 2025
There was much more to the waspish writer than memorable (and misremembered) one-liners
Books & arts
15 January 2025
Helen Garner reminds us that there are beginnings as well as ends
Books & arts
13 January 2025
Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record straight
Books & arts
24 December 2024
Could a close look at Austria tell us where Western democracies are heading?
Essays & reportage
23 December 2024
Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry?
Essays & reportage
18 December 2024
Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons
Books & arts
14 December 2024
Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence
Books & arts
11 December 2024
How two political consultants pushed the Democratic Party towards their imagined middle ground
Books & arts
11 December 2024
Kevin Rudd sees a clear line between the Chinese president’s worldview and his country’s path. But is it as simple as that?
Books & arts
9 December 2024
Musicologist Lawrence Kramer wants his readers to think differently about the sound of music and the music of sound