Books & Arts
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
Books & Arts
2 October 2023
Like the desks they sit behind, newsreaders have grown in stature as the medium has evolved
Books & Arts
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Books & Arts
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Books & Arts
27 September 2023
Outsiders were the key to the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
Books & Arts
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
Books & Arts
15 September 2023
Past Lives convincingly explores how the past lives on in the present
Books & Arts
11 September 2023
When does a type become a disorder?
Books & Arts
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & Arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Books & Arts
6 September 2023
Adam Kuper’s survey of museums culminates in a plea for “cosmopolitan” institutions
Books & Arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & Arts
5 September 2023
How the comic genius of John Clarke found its anchor
Books & Arts
4 September 2023
The many lives of Noël Coward, playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Books & Arts
1 September 2023
Frank Moorhouse’s first biographer captures a life in motion
Books & Arts
1 September 2023
A fascinating examination of the Chinese economy leaves one big question unanswered
Books & Arts
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Books & Arts
30 August 2023
Are governments creating efficient online systems that don’t make us feel stupid?
Books & Arts
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & Arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & Arts
26 August 2023
A seasoned analyst outlines the strategy Australia should have debated before the latest bout of defence spending
Books & Arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Books & Arts
24 August 2023
In its attempt to be light-hearted, Kitchen Cabinet has steered into dangerous waters
Books & Arts
23 August 2023
Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland invites the viewer to pay close attention
Books & Arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & Arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & Arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
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
10 August 2023
The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions
Books & Arts
9 August 2023
Resentment can be a potent — and not always destructive — motivator in political life