Books & arts
20 January 2019
Books | Journalist Shane Bauer’s account of life as a warder is as authoritative as it is raw
Books & arts
18 January 2019
Books | Are wealthy foundations, backed by tax breaks, wielding too much power?
Books & arts
15 January 2019
Books | The world’s in better shape than we thought
Books & arts
9 January 2019
Books | Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
Books & arts
4 January 2019
Books | A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
Books & arts
20 December 2018
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Books & arts
19 December 2018
Writers and readers nominate the outstanding books they read during the year that might not have gained the attention they deserved
Books & arts
19 December 2018
Books | Are Labor and the Greens divided by their common ground?
Books & arts
17 December 2018
Books | The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist
Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
From the archive
28 November 2018
A third win for Labor under Bob Hawke broke the postwar pattern forever
Books & arts
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Books & arts
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & arts
8 November 2018
Books | Teamed up with Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson seems set to again follow the trajectory documented by Kerry-Anne Walsh
Books & arts
1 November 2018
New York managed to stop the school-to-crime pipeline without increasing the imprisonment rate. Meanwhile, Australia is investing heavily in jail-building
Books & arts
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Books & arts
24 October 2018
Books | Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
From the archive
22 October 2018
University-educated Barnaby Joyce takes on the urban elite
Books & arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & arts
18 October 2018
Books | Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
International
17 October 2018
The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift
From the archive
12 October 2018
Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy
Essays & reportage
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
Books & arts
9 October 2018
Review essay | Democracies might be threatened, but authoritarian regimes have their own problems
From the archive
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Books & arts
27 September 2018
Review essay | Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
Books & arts
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction