Books & arts
24 February 2026
Everyone knows about the controversy, but what about the novel?
Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
Books & arts
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
1 July 2025
A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany
Books & arts
27 June 2025
Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Books & arts
10 April 2025
A new film rises to the challenge of adapting a heartbreaking Irish novella
Books & arts
24 March 2025
A new biography wrestles with the challenge of capturing a decade and a half of Miles Franklin’s life
Essays & reportage
11 February 2025
Coming across a “perfect moment” in literary Tangier
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future
Books & arts
31 January 2025
What makes a twentieth-century novel?
Books & arts
21 January 2025
Ismail Kadare’s final novel sums up a career shaped by tyranny
Books & arts
3 December 2024
A novelist reflects on “exile as agony but also as ethical position”
Books & arts
22 November 2024
The Day of the Jackal and The Diplomat reviewed
Books & arts
23 September 2024
A double biography reveals the creative partnership between Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson
Books & arts
30 July 2024
Novelist Andrew O’Hagan’s incisive account of contemporary London
Books & arts
28 March 2024
Charmian Clift’s most ambitious but unfinished work illuminates her childhood in coastal New South Wales
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & arts
3 January 2024
A new biography of Frank Moorhouse approaches its subject differently
Books & arts
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & arts
25 October 2023
Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces
Essays & reportage
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Books & arts
1 September 2023
Frank Moorhouse’s first biographer captures a life in motion
Books & arts
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
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
4 October 2022
Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties