Books & arts
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Books & arts
7 March 2023
An Australian diplomat follows le Carré and Greene among spies and moles
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
From the archive
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
Books & arts
18 March 2019
Television | The different focus and register of season two of Secret City reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & arts
30 August 2018
From the archive | Shane Maloney surveys the career of one of Sydney’s best-known fictional characters and the achievement of his creator, Peter Corris, who died this week
Books & arts
13 November 2017
Television | SBS has identified a thirst for crime drama, but program-makers aren’t always coming up with the goods
Books & arts
4 January 2016
Television | Jane Goodall witnesses Sherlock’s return to the world of fogs and hansom cabs
Books & arts
5 February 2015
A new Hercule Poirot novel is a reminder of the remarkable narrative skills of his creator
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
National affairs
3 November 2009
Two novels, two realities. Brian Toohey looks at what fiction can tell us about governments and human rights
Books & arts
2 April 2009
What price utopia? Two new memoirs and a series of crime novels give some clues
Books & arts
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes Dennis Altman