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Ancient autocrats
Stephen Mills
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
Books & arts
A love gone wrong
Brett Evans
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
Fear of falling
Peter Browne
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
Books & arts
Domino days
Graeme Dobell
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
National affairs
And that’s housing
Peter Mares
30 November 2023
Alan Kohler meets the ghost of Bob Menzies in the latest
Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
A kind of autobiography
Sylvia Martin
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & arts
The old hack who could
Nick Haslam
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & arts
Writing the history of the present
Mark Edele
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
The biographer’s last word
Patrick Mullins
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
From the archive
Revisiting Bloodwood Bore
Shannyn Palmer
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
Manhattan’s media piranha
Rodney Tiffen
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Books & arts
The spies who went into the cold
Phillip Deery
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
Blighted affections
Marian Quartly
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
Books & arts
This house of Grieve
Jeremy Gans
7 November 2023
A murder case looks different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
Books & arts
Active and ongoing
Alecia Simmonds
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s
Consent Laid Bare
part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & arts
Being human
Martha Macintyre
4 November 2023
An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples
Books & arts
Can generational analysis be saved?
John Quiggin
30 October 2023
A sociologist offers a more sophisticated take on generational differences, but problems remain
Books & arts
The old codger project
Brett Evans
27 October 2023
Writer John McPhee reveals his secret of longevity
Books & arts
University challenge
Ruth Barcan
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
Books & arts
Can I get a passport with that?
Max Holleran
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
Books & arts
Neverending story
Peter Marks
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Books & arts
Freeing Bennelong and Phillip
Alan Atkinson
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & arts
How should we live?
Holly High
18 October 2023
There’s more than one way forward for harried households
Books & arts
Western civilisation and its discontents
Kate Fullagar
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Books & arts
Treat the patient, not the x-ray
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
11 October 2023
Individualised medicine promised the world, but can it deliver?
Essays & reportage
The voice of Alexis Wright
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Books & arts
Lost in the market
Mike Steketee
3 October 2023
The NDIS has been life-changing but also disempowering, according to Micheline Lee
Books & arts
Machine questions
Julian Thomas
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
Books & arts
The art of a memoir
Sara Dowse
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
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