Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
International
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
25 October 2023
Preoccupied with other conflicts, the democratic world is passing up the chance to shift the dynamics in Myanmar
International
19 October 2023
Hamas’s appalling attack has exposed a government with no plan for resolving its country’s greatest challenges
Books & arts
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
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
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
International
23 August 2023
Non-Western powers are increasingly contributing to global pressure on Russia
Books & arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
International
22 August 2023
Many predictions have proved wrong since Vladimir Putin sent in his troops in February last year
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
12 July 2023
Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan
Books & arts
4 July 2023
Underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are existential fears of democracy, diversity, sustainability and the decline of patriarchy
International
9 June 2023
The fate of a displaced people lies at the heart of the war in Ukraine — and how it might be resolved
National affairs
2 June 2023
The judgement against Ben Roberts-Smith throws the spotlight onto the special war crimes investigator
National affairs
2 June 2023
Ben Roberts-Smith might be the author of his own fall, but the implications extend to the highest levels of military decision-making
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Essays & reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
National affairs
14 March 2023
The AUKUS submarine announcement has immediately raised thorny questions about cost, timing and design
Correspondents
14 March 2023
Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
Correspondents
22 February 2023
A new normal has taken root in a city at war
International
22 February 2023
Will the West’s delicate balancing act accidentally trigger a chain reaction?
National affairs
6 February 2023
Australia’s fringe Russian nationalist movement has worrying international links
Books & arts
23 November 2022
The author of Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine responds to Mark Edele’s review of his book
Books & arts
22 November 2022
Two new books disagree about the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
National affairs
11 November 2022
While the Australian War Memorial lavishes $500 million on its controversial extension, wartime service records go undigitised
International
17 October 2022
A false equivalence is compromising reactions to the war among some on the left
Essays & reportage
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
Books & arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime