Essays & reportage
28 August 2023
Despite a series of obstacles, post-Soviet Ukraine has been moving in the right direction
Books & arts
26 August 2023
A seasoned analyst outlines the strategy Australia should have debated before the latest bout of defence spending
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Books & arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Essays & reportage
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
National affairs
11 August 2023
Morrison’s fall, the teals’ rise, Labor’s victory: the editors of a new post-election book survey the 2022 campaign
Books & arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & arts
10 August 2023
The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Resentment can be a potent — and not always destructive — motivator in political life
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
8 August 2023
A new survey of heritage protection highlights Australia’s uneven record as it prepares to host next month’s International Council on Monuments and Sites assembly
Books & arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
Books & arts
3 August 2023
How a restless party found a new way of thinking about socialism
Books & arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & arts
31 July 2023
Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock
Books & arts
28 July 2023
David Graeber’s latest book isn’t his best, but still we love it
Books & arts
28 July 2023
The philosopher presciently identified an age awash in “bullshit”
Books & arts
26 July 2023
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century phrenologists illuminates how ideas spread
Books & arts
26 July 2023
A philosopher considers the case for abolishing prisons
Books & arts
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public voice and private life
Books & arts
14 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
Books & arts
13 July 2023
A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be
Books & arts
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
Books & arts
12 July 2023
Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan
Books & arts
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
Books & arts
5 July 2023
Is there a case for gradual change in a radical age?
Books & arts
4 July 2023
Underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are existential fears of democracy, diversity, sustainability and the decline of patriarchy