Books & arts
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
Essays & reportage
23 December 2024
Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry?
Books & arts
19 September 2024
An immense database of early modern plays reveals “a veritable avian community, a magpie nest, each writer borrowing from each other”
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Essays & reportage
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
Books & arts
10 September 2020
Books | Australian modernist literature looks a little different through an international lens
Books & arts
14 July 2020
Books | A new biography traces the works and days of poet David Campbell
Essays & reportage
7 May 2020
Does our pandemic shed new light on the playwright and his work?
Summer season
6 November 2019
Literary history hasn’t always been kind to poet, novelist and journalist Zora Cross
Books & arts
8 October 2019
Books | Was W.H. Auden right to doubt the poem but wrong to suppress its affirming flame?
From the archive
16 August 2019
The Russell Square twins, Fabberdum and Fabberdee, Fabber & Fabber — whatever the nickname, the story of the famed London publisher reveals a lot about how creative…
Books & arts
12 July 2019
Books | Emma Smith’s twenty-first century reading of the bard is open-minded and open-ended
Books & arts
20 June 2019
Cinema | To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Essays & reportage
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
Books & arts
20 August 2018
Music | What makes someone a “conservative” composer?
From the archive
23 April 2018
A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer
Books & arts
13 February 2018
Music | Pianist Andrea Keller’s new work might or might not be jazz, but it’s certainly poetic
Books & arts
4 May 2017
An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt
Books & arts
7 March 2017
Books | Anna Wickham made a distinctive contribution to the poetic experiments of the early twentieth century
Books & arts
18 August 2016
Books | Gwen Harwood’s letters reveal an exuberant wit and sense of the ridiculous, writes Susan Lever
Books & arts
8 September 2015
Music | It’s no surprise that Messiaen was a prisoner of war when he first made use of birdsong, writes Andrew Ford