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In a previously unpublished novel, Simone de Beauvoir traces a life-changing friendship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
Essays & Reportage
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
Books & Arts
10 September 2020
Books | Australian modernist literature looks a little different through an international lens
From the archive
21 July 2020
The fiction of Elizabeth Harrower, who died earlier this month
Books & Arts
10 July 2020
Cinema | An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling
Books & Arts
6 April 2020
Books | What can novels tell us about how political ideas circulate?
Books & Arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & Arts
2 March 2020
Books | Literary critic Vivian Gornick’s latest book is as much about life as it is about reading
Books & Arts
19 November 2019
Books | Andrew McGahan was a talented writer with a strong ethical sense who never took himself too seriously
Books & Arts
15 November 2019
Books | Heather Rose has written a novel for uncertain times
Books & Arts
16 August 2019
The Russell Square twins, Fabberdum and Fabberdee, Fabber & Fabber — whatever the nickname, the famous London publisher tells us a lot about creative enterprise
From the archive
6 December 2018
Television | This carefully paced adaptation of My Brilliant Friend brings a corner of Naples to life
Books & Arts
6 December 2018
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Correspondents
17 October 2018
The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift
National Affairs
10 October 2018
Two journalist–novelists compare notes on Chinese espionage
Books & Arts
25 September 2018
Books | Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
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
16 July 2018
Cinema | Translating short works to the screen has its special challenges
Books & Arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & Arts
7 April 2018
Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany