Essays & reportage
28 July 2016
Published fifty years ago, The Tyranny of Distance changed the way we see Australia, writes Graeme Davison
Books & arts
22 July 2016
Books | This collaborative account shows how films, almost miraculously, get to the screen, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
1 July 2016
Books | A new biography of Sydney lawyer and sometime politician Tom Hughes details a remarkable career, writes Tony Blackshield
From the archive
27 June 2016
How the legendary dispatch failed its first test
Books & arts
24 June 2016
Books | Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
24 June 2016
Books | Thornton McCamish’s unconventional biography of writer Alan Moorehead succeeds beautifully, writes Evan Williams
Books & arts
7 June 2016
Books | A new collection of cartoons reveals a struggle to find the comic essence of Malcolm Turnbull, writes Robert Phiddian
Books & arts
2 June 2016
Books | Angus McMillan’s name has become attached to at least one massacre in Victoria’s Gippsland region, writes Peter Crowley. But does the…
Essays & reportage
2 June 2016
Labor seemed the obvious place to mobilise broader support for strong climate change policies, writes former Wilderness Society staffer Felicity Wade
Books & arts
30 May 2016
Australia’s array of awards shows there are good and bad ways of recognising great writing, argues Susan Lever
Books & arts
23 May 2016
Books | He’s level-headed, dogged and hard-working, writes Frank Bongiorno. And maybe that’s enough, whether Labor wins or not
Books & arts
20 May 2016
Books | Two new books throw light on the social and religious forces swirling around Narendra Modi’s Indian government, writes Bob Smith
Books & arts
10 May 2016
Music | Each singer must find his own voice for Peter Maxwell Davies’s best-known work, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
20 April 2016
Books | Transcendence, meaning, social purpose: religion has gripped a remarkable range of thinkers, says Janna Thompson
Books & arts
20 April 2016
Books | Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
15 April 2016
Books | The land rights debate has entered a new era, writes Michael Dillon, and Leon Terrill is an informed and engaging guide
Books & arts
8 April 2016
Books | The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century, writes Norman Abjorensen
Books & arts
1 April 2016
Books | David Kilcullen helps us make sense of the madness unleashed by Islamic State, writes Tom Hyland. But he’s less convincing about what we should do next
Books & arts
24 March 2016
Television | It’s War and Peace’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes Jane Goodall. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts
21 March 2016
Books | Anna Clark gives academic historians plenty to think about, writes Carolyn Holbrook
Books & arts
17 March 2016
Adam Sisman’s biography of the prolific writer highlights the fine line between stories and lies, writes Peter Love
Essays & reportage
10 March 2016
Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
Essays & reportage
10 March 2016
As the experience of the Queensland community of Kowanyama shows, implementation – rather than the media, politicians or the public service – is the engine room of Indigenous…
From the archive
8 March 2016
Identifying and acknowledging an Aboriginal lineage can be a complex and challenging process
Books & arts
1 March 2016
Books | Meg Gurry reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace
Books & arts
29 February 2016
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson views Looking for Grace through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film
From the archive
2 February 2016
Bertrand Russell’s classic raises old questions about new problems
Books & arts
12 January 2016
A multilayered portrait of divided Britain is trapped by its animating spirit
Essays & reportage
23 December 2015
Circumstances propelled the gregarious John Gorton into the top job, but the party termites quickly got to work
Books & arts
21 December 2015
Books | Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes Greg Lehman