Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Southeast Asia has moved to the centre of China–US rivalry
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
Books & arts
28 October 2025
Why write a book about the Battle of Shah Wali Kot, and why now?
Books & arts
28 October 2025
How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape
Books & arts
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
Books & arts
22 October 2025
A prize-winning account of Soviet-era human rights activists throws light on Putin’s Russia
Books & arts
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
Books & arts
17 October 2025
Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang
Books & arts
16 October 2025
An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire
Books & arts
15 October 2025
Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution
Books & arts
10 October 2025
Elizabeth Harrower’s two-part life
Books & arts
9 October 2025
Two very different books mark the anniversaries of two very different composers
Books & arts
2 October 2025
A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished
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
29 September 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature, and the story of an orchestral work said to be performed somewhere in the world every fifteen minutes
Books & arts
25 September 2025
Statisticians are struggling to capture the twenty-first-century economy
Books & arts
24 September 2025
A “realist capable of idealism” offers a bracing analysis of a world gripped by emotion
Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
19 September 2025
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
Books & arts
17 September 2025
A former insider weighs into the debate about Canberra’s strategy
Books & arts
16 September 2025
A challenging account of war and migration brings a family’s story to the sweep of recent history
Books & arts
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
Books & arts
12 September 2025
Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government
Books & arts
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
Books & arts
11 September 2025
Universities and the assault on cultural infrastructure
Books & arts
10 September 2025
Melody, rhythm, lyrics, arrangements: it’s the sonority of familiar music that we carry with us
Books & arts
9 September 2025
Spike Lee’s new movie, now streaming, is a drama about music, mayhem and moral dilemmas
Books & arts
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness