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
Books & arts
17 December 2015
Books | Graeme Dobell reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
Books & arts
11 December 2015
Books | Paddy Manning’s biography of Malcolm Turnbull reveals a man in a blazing hurry, writes Brett Evans
Books & arts
10 December 2015
Books | Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & arts
1 December 2015
Books | Laura Tingle is right to say that government must become better at remembering, writes Paddy Gourley, but her argument has memory lapses of its own
Books & arts
1 December 2015
Books | The challenge for Australian cities is to introduce fluidity into a landscape often set in concrete, writes Jennifer Kent
Books & arts
23 November 2015
Books | Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes Susan Lever. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena
Books & arts
12 November 2015
Books | Brett Evans follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street