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
From the archive
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
Books & Arts
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
Books & Arts
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
Books & Arts
18 December 2017
Books | Publishers seem to prefer other writers — rather than critics — to write about writers
Correspondents
10 October 2017
Letter from London | A Nobel award gives the British novelist’s voice as well as his work a new authority
Essays & Reportage
5 October 2017
Self-publishing need no longer be a second-best option, especially if you’re a writer of genre fiction
Books & Arts
11 July 2017
Television | Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale makes a mostly smooth transition to the screen
Books & Arts
25 May 2017
Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen
Books & Arts
4 May 2017
An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt
Books & Arts
20 March 2017
Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times
Books & Arts
3 January 2017
Television | Holiday viewing tips from Inside Story’s TV writer
