Books & Arts
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & Arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Books & Arts
13 December 2021
Why book publishing can be a risky business
Essays & Reportage
1 December 2021
Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021
Books & Arts
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Books & Arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
Books & Arts
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & Arts
11 November 2021
Janet McCalman’s new book throws fresh light on Australia’s convict history
Essays & Reportage
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
From the archive
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
Books & Arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Books & Arts
11 October 2021
In what ways did the typewriter affect how — and how much — writers wrote?
Books & Arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Books & Arts
7 October 2021
An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family
Essays & Reportage
1 October 2021
The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940
From the archive
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Essays & Reportage
24 September 2021
John Elliott — who died this week — in many ways personified the business excesses of Australia’s 1980s
From the archive
17 September 2021
Are mistaken beliefs about the history of mental health treatments stopping us from creating a humane system?
Books & Arts
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
Essays & Reportage
13 September 2021
In ways that still resonate, the program to drag the economy out of the Great Depression changed Americans’ relationships with politics, economics and each other
Essays & Reportage
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Books & Arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
Essays & Reportage
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Books & Arts
16 August 2021
Could constitutional monarchies be the best of a bad lot?
Essays & Reportage
13 August 2021
The past meets the future in the town that inspired Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel
Essays & Reportage
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
Books & Arts
6 August 2021
The authors of Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & Arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & Reportage
20 July 2021
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
Books & Arts
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging