Books & Arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & Arts
9 August 2023
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti remained endlessly inquisitive
Books & Arts
8 August 2023
A new survey of heritage protection highlights Australia’s uneven record as it prepares to host next month’s International Council on Monuments and Sites assembly
Books & Arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
Books & Arts
3 August 2023
How a restless party found a new way of thinking about socialism
Books & Arts
2 August 2023
Driving Madeleine reviewed
Books & Arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & Arts
31 July 2023
Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock
Books & Arts
28 July 2023
David Graeber’s latest book isn’t his best, but still we love it
Books & Arts
28 July 2023
The philosopher presciently identified an age awash in “bullshit”
Books & Arts
27 July 2023
The physicist’s own words provide a commentary on conflicting depictions
Books & Arts
26 July 2023
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century phrenologists illuminates how ideas spread
Books & Arts
26 July 2023
A philosopher considers the case for abolishing prisons
Books & Arts
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & Arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public voice and private life
Books & Arts
14 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
Books & Arts
13 July 2023
A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be
Books & Arts
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
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
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
Books & Arts
5 July 2023
Is there a case for gradual change in a radical age?
Books & Arts
4 July 2023
Underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are existential fears of democracy, diversity, sustainability and the decline of patriarchy
Books & Arts
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Books & Arts
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
Books & Arts
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & Arts
23 June 2023
Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & Arts
22 June 2023
Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead reviewed
Books & Arts
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & Arts
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Books & Arts
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That?