Books & arts
8 March 2018
Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”?
Books & arts
11 February 2018
Books | Centre-left parties are struggling everywhere. Can they adapt?
Books & arts
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
28 January 2018
The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes
Books & arts
22 January 2018
Books | Is the US economy suffering from an overriding malady — and could Australia become infected?
Books & arts
16 January 2018
Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book
Books & arts
5 January 2018
Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership
Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers
Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
Books & arts
14 December 2017
Books | Critics of Chris Masters’s account of special forces in Afghanistan have deflected attention from the book’s key message
International
12 December 2017
The novelist’s week in Stockholm was an experimental opening towards a new public voice
Books & arts
12 December 2017
Books | Somehow, this extraordinarily diverse group of countries has held together for half a century. Can it last?
Books & arts
7 December 2017
Books | Is Gareth Evans’s “incorrigible optimism” evidence-based?
Books & arts
25 November 2017
A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in
Books & arts
16 November 2017
Books | A former adviser to Tony Blair tackles conventional views of crime and its causes
Essays & reportage
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?
From the archive
3 November 2017
Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
Books & arts
17 October 2017
Books | John McPhee’s new guide to the craft of writing is much more than a textbook
Essays & reportage
17 October 2017
Extract | Gilda Civitico’s story illuminates the art and the science of tinkering
Books & arts
10 October 2017
What will Sam Dastyari do if he’s given a second chance? His autobiography only hints at an answer
Essays & reportage
5 October 2017
Self-publishing need no longer be a second-best option, especially if you’re a writer of genre fiction
Essays & reportage
2 October 2017
A letter from a worried juror threw into doubt Stephen Young’s conviction for the murder of Harry and Nicola Fuller. Did it also pinpoint a weakness in the way juries work?
Books & arts
29 September 2017
Books | How did eleven men and one woman fill the most difficult role in Australia’s postwar political dramas?
Books & arts
18 September 2017
Brian Burke’s doorstopper of a memoir is a valuable but partial account of a career propelled by an old grievance
National affairs
4 September 2017
Can we hold more than one idea in our heads at the same time?
Books & arts
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
Books & arts
1 September 2017
Books | Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well
Essays & reportage
24 August 2017
Extract | An intensive care specialist argues for more help for the carers of people suffering cognitive decline
Books & arts
24 August 2017
Books | An outstanding new biography traces the life of the man who dominated early federal politics
Summer season
10 August 2017
Birth and luck clearly play an enormous role in our lives. So why does the idea of a meritocracy maintain its grip?