Books & arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Essays & reportage
26 January 2024
A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler
Books & arts
22 January 2024
How technology, migration and population transformed crops, foods and ways of eating
Books & arts
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians
Books & arts
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
Books & arts
22 December 2023
Newly translated, Azerbaijan-born Banine’s memoirs chronicle her extraordinary early years
Books & arts
14 December 2023
Fifty years later, the Vietnam war still echoes around Southeast Asia and across the Pacific
Books & arts
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
Essays & reportage
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
From the archive
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & reportage
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & arts
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
This year’s winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
Books & arts
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
Essays & reportage
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
Books & arts
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Essays & reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Books & arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Essays & reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
Books & arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers