Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
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
7 March 2023
Why did Richard Bradford bother writing his biography of the controversial American writer?
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
Doomed to defeat in 1972, did prime minister William McMahon show more initiative than he’s given credit for?
Books & arts
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
From the archive
4 September 2022
Harold Holt’s attraction to danger gives his death an air of inevitability
Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman applies a forensic eye to the history wars battle between Manning Clark and Peter Ryan
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
Books & arts
30 April 2021
The biographer who promised not to be prim or judgemental has his own scandal to deal with
Books & arts
19 March 2021
Books | Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?