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?
From the archive
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
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
National affairs
2 July 2021
More than a “nation’s memory” is at stake in the funding debate
From the archive
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
National affairs
29 June 2021
Does our opening up to Indigenous history work best locally?
From the archive
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
National affairs
18 June 2021
Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault?
Books & arts
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
National affairs
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
Essays & reportage
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Books & arts
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought