Books & arts
Ages of anxiety
Nick Haslam
23 October 2019
Books | There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
Books & arts
The needs of strangers
Janna Thompson
22 October 2019
Books | Most of us are cosmopolitan, but how does that mean we should behave?
Books & arts
The lost world of the mayaroo
Nancy Cushing
21 October 2019
Books | By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
From the archive
Penny Wong, unauthorised
Jane Goodall
18 October 2019
The popular Labor senator was fortunate in her biographer
Essays & reportage
The hipster trustbusters
Danielle Wood
15 October 2019
How young lawyers are leading the backlash against the biggest companies
Books & arts
Eighty-two counterterrorism laws, and counting
Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
9 October 2019
Books | Veteran journalist Brian Toohey probes the network of laws and agencies that’s expanded rapidly in the name of national security
Books & arts
A poet, a bar, a wartime day
Glyn Davis
8 October 2019
Books | Was W.H. Auden right to doubt the poem but wrong to suppress its affirming flame?
Books & arts
Triple trouble
Sara Dowse
4 October 2019
Books | Does gender and race fully explain the discrimination faced by women of colour?
Books & arts
You’ve got to give it to Cupid
Nick Haslam
25 September 2019
Books | A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
Books & arts
Late-onset ageing
Brett Evans
24 September 2019
Books | Ageing can be a better experience, but we might need to face a few unpleasant facts
Essays & reportage
What Ada Lovelace can teach us about digital technology
Lizzie O’Shea
9 September 2019
Extract | How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Essays & reportage
Jørn Utzon’s magnificent obsession
Joe Rollo
25 August 2019
The Danish architect remained keenly engaged with unfinished business in Australia
Books & arts
Chardonnay socialist
Ryan Cropp
19 August 2019
Books | Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
From the archive
Fabber & Fabber
Jock Given
16 August 2019
The Russell Square twins, Fabberdum and Fabberdee, Fabber & Fabber — whatever the nickname, the story of the famed London publisher reveals a lot about how creative…
Books & arts
Defending globalisation
Carmela Chivers
16 August 2019
Books | Whatever its virtues, more free trade isn’t a slogan likely to win over sceptical voters
Books & arts
Ghosted
Susan Lever
13 August 2019
Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Essays & reportage
Rolling thunder
Ben Stubbs
4 August 2019
Extract | Maralinga combines the devastation of atomic testing and the green shoots of the future
Books & arts
Can “the commons” save us from ourselves?
Tim Dunlop
2 August 2019
Books | A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work
Books & arts
Sympathy for the devils
Dominic Kelly
26 July 2019
Books | Why does Niki Savva empathise with some of Australia’s least attractive politicians?
Books & arts
Rewriting the script
Sara Dowse
25 July 2019
Books | Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse
Essays & reportage
A Margaret Fulton recipe always works
Sian Supski
25 July 2019
Published two years before The Female Eunuch, Margaret Fulton’s first cookbook had its own impact
Books & arts
The Shakespeare we need
Robert White
12 July 2019
Books | Emma Smith’s twenty-first century reading of the bard is open-minded and open-ended
Books & arts
The sulphurous intrigue of the past
Matthew Ricketson
12 July 2019
Books | The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
Books & arts
The jokes that get away
Richard Johnstone
10 July 2019
Books | Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?
Books & arts
A strategist turns his guns on defence
Nicholas Stuart
9 July 2019
Books | Hugh White draws on his insider knowledge to pose all the right questions
Books & arts
Killing for the cause
Paul ’t Hart
30 June 2019
Books | A social psychologist explores how radicalisation happens
Books & arts
Rescued from the footnotes
Sylvia Martin
25 June 2019
Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
Books & arts
Sydney on the edge
Sara Dowse
21 June 2019
Books | Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Books & arts
Be careful what you wish for
Terry Flew
19 June 2019
Why trust and privacy are not the same thing
Books & arts
Muddy reality
Zora Simic
14 June 2019
What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?
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