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 voice and private life
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
From the archive
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
Books & arts
20 October 2021
Colm Tóibín’s novelised life of the German writer Thomas Mann bridges a cultural gap
Books & arts
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
From the archive
4 October 2021
In a previously unpublished novel, Simone de Beauvoir traces a life-changing friendship
Books & arts
25 September 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
Books & arts
20 September 2021
Have the addictive qualities of Elena Ferrante’s novels distracted readers from their literariness?
Books & arts
15 September 2021
Leïla Slimani vividly reimagines her grandmother’s life as a young French woman in Morocco
From the archive
13 August 2021
The past meets the future in the town that inspired Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel
Books & arts
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
Books & arts
11 February 2021
Books | A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
18 December 2020
Books | A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries
Books & arts
14 December 2020
The long writing career of John le Carré, who died on Saturday