Books & arts
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
From the archive
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
Retrospective
10 November 2025
Two breaches of parliamentary convention made possible the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s government
Essays & reportage
4 November 2025
Despite grappling with a double disadvantage, Margaret Walkom resolved to go her own way
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
Essays & reportage
28 October 2025
Old-timers still abound in the Pacific
Books & arts
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
Books & arts
22 October 2025
A prize-winning account of Soviet-era human rights activists throws light on Putin’s Russia
Books & arts
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
Books & arts
16 October 2025
An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire
Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
National affairs
2 October 2025
The great tariff clash shows how the Coalition manages to survive deep differences of opinion
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
Essays & reportage
15 September 2025
What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence?
Books & arts
12 September 2025
Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government
National affairs
5 September 2025
Memorials to the violence against “comfort women” risk being hijacked by competitive victimhood
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Retrospective
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
International
4 August 2025
Eighty years on, America is intensifying its military presence in the Pacific
Essays & reportage
30 July 2025
Eighty years ago, with the Pacific war drawing to a close, the celebrated war correspondent set out on a perilous spiritual journey
Essays & reportage
28 July 2025
What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer came to Adelaide in 1960?
National affairs
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are…
Retrospective
13 July 2025
What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939?
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Books & arts
1 July 2025
A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany