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Essays & Reportage Sylvia Martin 23 April 2018 A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer
Books & Arts Glenn Nicholls 17 April 2018 Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany Books & Arts Brett Evans 11 April 2018 Books | The former academic and the pugnacious ex-soldier both tell compelling stories about life before politics Books & Arts Julie Shiels 9 April 2018 Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid? Books & Arts Carmela Chivers 4 April 2018 Books | The quest to quantify the performance of our most important institutions can backfire, but what other choice do we have?
Essays & Reportage Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Books & Arts Alan Davies 27 March 2018 Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s? Books & Arts Joe Rollo 27 March 2018 Books | Australia’s experimental domestic architecture of the 1950s and 60s still challenges mainstream design Essays & Reportage Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England Books & Arts Jane Goodall 12 March 2018 Books | Following in the footsteps of Nobel prize-winner Elinor Ostrom, two new books make the argument for public property and the public good
International Paul ’t Hart 12 March 2018 Even in modern Germany, government maladministration can have tragic effects
Books & Arts Tom Hyland 8 March 2018 Books | A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 8 March 2018 Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”? Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 11 February 2018 Books | Centre-left parties are struggling everywhere. Can they adapt? Books & Arts Richard White 2 February 2018 Books | This new edition of John Rickard’s pathbreaking book is a reminder that he anticipated many of the concerns of subsequent generations of historians
Books & Arts Martha Macintyre 28 January 2018 Review essay | The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes
Books & Arts Carmela Chivers 22 January 2018 Books | Is the US economy suffering from an overriding malady — and could Australia become infected? Books & Arts Janna Thompson 16 January 2018 Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership Books & Arts Susan Lever 18 December 2017 Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers
Books & Arts Sara Dowse 18 December 2017 Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
Books & Arts Tom Hyland 14 December 2017 Books | Critics of Chris Masters’s account of special forces in Afghanistan have deflected attention from the book’s key message Correspondents David Hayes 12 December 2017 The novelist’s week in Stockholm was an experimental opening towards a new public voice Books & Arts Graeme Dobell 12 December 2017 Books | Somehow, this extraordinarily diverse group of countries has held together for half a century. Can it last? Books & Arts Jock Given 7 December 2017 Books | Is Gareth Evans’s “incorrigible optimism” evidence-based?
Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 25 November 2017 A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in
Books & Arts Rick Sarre 16 November 2017 Books | A former adviser to Tony Blair tackles conventional views of crime and its causes Essays & Reportage Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case? Essays & Reportage Brenda Niall 3 November 2017 Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past Books & Arts Louise Merrington 17 October 2017 Books | John McPhee’s new guide to the craft of writing is much more than a textbook