Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & arts
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & arts
11 March 2024
Milton Friedman brought wit and energy to his self-appointed task, but how influential did he prove to be?
Books & arts
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
Books & arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
Books & arts
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
Books & arts
14 February 2024
Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & arts
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & arts
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
Books & arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & arts
22 January 2024
How technology, migration and population transformed crops, foods and ways of eating
Books & arts
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & arts
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians
Books & arts
3 January 2024
A new biography of Frank Moorhouse approaches its subject differently
Books & arts
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
Books & arts
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
National affairs
30 November 2023
Alan Kohler meets the ghost of Bob Menzies in the latest Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
From the archive
17 November 2023
An extract from Unmaking Angas Downs, which has won this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History
Books & arts
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
7 November 2023
A murder case looked different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own