Books & Arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Essays & Reportage
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
International
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
Essays & Reportage
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
Books & Arts
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
Books & Arts
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & Arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
International
22 February 2024
With the full-scale invasion entering its third year, the stakes remain high
Essays & Reportage
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
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