From the archive
19 December 2012
What happened when journalist Peter Coleman assembled a star-studded group of writers in 1962 to rethink the way intellectuals viewed Australia?
Books & arts
18 December 2012
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication, Glenn Nicholls looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
Books & arts
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Books & arts
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet
Books & arts
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
17 November 2012
David Dorward reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects
Books & arts
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
17 October 2012
The latest biography of Liang Qichao reveals a man of his times with a new significance for present-day China, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
Books & arts
15 October 2012
Does every Australian have a right to decent housing? Governments might say so, but they’re not doing much to make it happen, writes Peter Spearritt
Books & arts
10 October 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews an intimate account of the life of Werner Pelz
Books & arts
9 October 2012
Has the market economy changed the way we love? Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at three new books dealing with the difficult intersection of love, sex and gender
Books & arts
8 October 2012
A sympathetic biography of Gough Whitlam also recognises its subject’s shortcomings
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Books | The political and the personal illuminate each other in James Button’s fine account of a year in Canberra
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula
Books & arts
3 September 2012
Using the growth of indebtedness as a way of explaining financial crises oversimplifies the modern economy, writes John Edwards
Books & arts
29 August 2012
There is no one quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
21 August 2012
Graeme Dobell reviews a collection of essays about Australia’s strategic environment
Books & arts
16 August 2012
Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given
Essays & reportage
15 August 2012
After six months of living in Alice Springs, Eleanor Hogan’s employer folded and she was offered an all-expenses-paid relocation back to Sydney. But she was in no…
Books & arts
14 August 2012
Hugh White offers a provocative but not entirely persuasive account of the implications of China’s growing strength, writes Geoffrey Barker
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a hard-to-classify account of the influence of Graham Greene
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Richard Johnstone on two very different explorations of food
Books & arts
7 August 2012
David Park’s new novel adds to the evidence that we are in the midst of a golden age of Northern Irish fiction, writes Matthew McGuire
Books & arts
3 August 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure
Books & arts
20 July 2012
Jill Kitson reviews a new account of Barack Obama’s formative years
Books & arts
4 July 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château
Essays & reportage
4 July 2012
Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank …
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state