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
Books & arts
10 November 2015
Books | The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes Paul Rodan. Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted
Books & arts
10 November 2015
Books | What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
5 November 2015
Books | An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes Brian McFarlane, and a new book…
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson
From the archive
21 October 2015
Kangaroo may be the first truly modern novel written in Australia
Books & arts
12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
From the archive
3 October 2015
The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose
Books & arts
24 September 2015
Books | Bruce Duncan reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
Books & arts
21 September 2015
Books | Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message? Norman Abjorensen reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
18 September 2015
Books | Graeme Smith compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific
Books & arts
16 September 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Susan Johnson’s new novel, The Landing
Books & arts
31 August 2015
Books | Susan Lever reviews Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin
Books & arts
24 August 2015
After taking up the camera at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a distinctive body of work
Books & arts
21 August 2015
Books | Colour, movement and analysis – Joel Deane delivers all three in his account of Labor’s late nineties comeback in Victoria, writes Ken Haley
Essays & reportage
21 August 2015
Twenty great British films? Brian McFarlane explains how he chose them, and looks at one old and one new
National affairs
13 August 2015
Julia Gillard drew adulation at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, writes Brett Evans. It was another reminder of questions still hanging over the Labor Party
Essays & reportage
12 August 2015
Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…
Books & arts
12 August 2015
Books | The best-ever account of an Australian director? Brian McFarlane reviews Jane Freebury’s survey of the director’s eclectic career