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
National affairs
28 June 2012
Market liberalism has defined the past three decades, writes John Quiggin, and George Megalogenis provides a valuable guide
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Dean Ashenden looks at Australians’ enthusiasm for new foods and our readiness to adapt, improvise and reinvent
Books & arts
25 June 2012
Lyndon Johnson took on the frustrating role of vice-president to shake off the taint of Southern racism and conservatism. And the rest is history
Books & arts
24 June 2012
Michael Gilding reviews a lively manifesto for an important cause
From the archive
14 June 2012
Gertrude Stein’s authoritarian views left her susceptible to Marshal Pétain’s wartime Vichy government
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Jock Given gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & arts
12 June 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mungo MacCallum’s The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers
Essays & reportage
7 June 2012
Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt
Books & arts
7 June 2012
DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 prisoners in the United States, but an Australian case highlights its potential to mislead
National affairs
5 June 2012
A timeless guide for politicians with a sting in the tail
Books & arts
5 June 2012
The Nuremberg trials were not typical of how the Allies dispensed justice after the second world war, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
31 May 2012
Kwani Trust is at the forefront of a literary renaissance in Kenya, writes Clar Ni Chonghaile
Books & arts
23 May 2012
How do we get good olive oil? Tom Mueller has part of the answer, writes Alan Saunders
Books & arts
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes Simon Caterson
Books & arts
3 May 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews a new edition of a classic novel
Books & arts
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
20 April 2012
Almost nothing remains of the once imposing myth of Putin the energetic moderniser, writes Robert Horvath
Essays & reportage
13 April 2012
Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself
Books & arts
11 April 2012
The language of class distinctions tells us a lot about Britain and Australia, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks Jock Given
Books & arts
4 April 2012
Richard Johnstone on Picador’s reissue of White Noise, and its fortieth anniversary cover design
Books & arts
2 April 2012
Guy Standing brings together evidence about precarious employment from across the world, but his argument leaves Ian Watson with some unanswered questions
Books & arts
22 March 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews a new biography of the enigmatic Rick Farley