Books & arts
11 September 2025
Universities and the assault on cultural infrastructure
Books & arts
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & arts
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
Books & arts
5 September 2022
Does bowing out involve a kind of “self-discipline normally associated with persistence”?
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword
Books & arts
5 November 2020
Books | Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Essays & reportage
10 February 2020
The discovery of a remarkable piece of writing by Aileen Palmer adds poignancy to her later life
Books & arts
29 October 2019
The scrapping of Sydney University’s professorship has great symbolic importance
Essays & reportage
30 October 2018
A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence
