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
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
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
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
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
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
11 September 2025
Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect
International
9 September 2025
Gore Vidal’s message for Americans: “We are Trump; he is us”
Books & arts
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Books & arts
27 August 2025
The European Union’s relations with its member states could help us navigate the process of treaty-making
Books & arts
21 August 2025
Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly”
Other Voices
20 August 2025
With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique
Books & arts
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
Books & arts
14 August 2025
Collaboration is reconciliation, say the authors of The Australian Ingredients Kitchen
Books & arts
14 August 2025
A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates