Books
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So much as raisethe now-embedded prejudice against boys and men in the context of the feminisation of the society and you are denounced as “misogynist”January 14, 2026
12 mins
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Here is a call for transparency, accountability, and reform. If governments are to avoid the mistakes of 2020 to 2022, answers are neededJanuary 12, 2026
4 mins
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A Prefect of the Press is an enjoyable, witty and wise novel. Pity about the typosJanuary 11, 2026
5 mins
The latest
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Judith Stove has produced a wide-ranging, thoughtful study blending biography, philosophy, history and travelogue without ever losing sight of the manDecember 28, 2025
7 mins
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'the temptation to believe that the universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming'December 28, 2025
6 mins
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Cawthorn retired from ASIS in 1968. In early 1970, he was savagely attacked near the Melbourne Club by an unknown assailantDecember 28, 2025
9 mins
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The question is not whether Jesus is the Messiah, because that is a matter of Christian faith. It is whether the Messiah can be divineDecember 28, 2025
9 mins
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A poet will always be best understood in his or her own language and in his or her own territory. Poets in exile - or translation - suffer from this factDecember 28, 2025
11 mins
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Two generations before Charlie Kirk there was Leonard Read. He too debated with students and told them how to build a good societyDecember 22, 2025
7 mins
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John Shepherd's reflection on, amongst other things, the interface of theology, liturgy and history is a fine book. One fears, though, he is preaching to the choirDecember 21, 2025
10 mins
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Two of our Quadrant Online contributors have just released a new book. It is both a lament for the West -- and a warningDecember 11, 2025
6 mins
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If dyslexia can create a Picasso, why not a horse whisperer?November 26, 2025
8 mins
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Australia: A History: How an Ancient Land Became a Great […]November 26, 2025
6 mins
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First came Jane Harper’s The Dry to launch the outback noir school of crime fiction. The results have been mixed to say the leastNovember 22, 2025
10 mins
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Tony: Chalk and Cheese deserves a wide and appreciative readership.
Ross: You can always trust Tony AbbottOctober 29, 2025
8 mins
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As Kevin Hart concludes, 'the movements of the soul are at least as essential to life as the motions of the body'October 28, 2025
10 mins
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Ignoring the Scriptures, as Sheridan points out, is 'a spectacular impoverishment' that banishes ideas and inspirations once integral to our cultureOctober 28, 2025
11 mins
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Graeme Hetherington’s volume might be read more for edification than pleasure but, that said, it does contain gems of humourOctober 28, 2025
8 mins
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Robert Clancy hails rationalism and individualism as the foundations of Australian scientific research -- qualities these days trumped by bureaucracy and careerismOctober 25, 2025
4 mins
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Alana Lentin, yet one more player in the race-hustle game, pumps out the ink, blather and anti-Zionism as only a good modern Marxist canOctober 23, 2025
12 mins
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Editor Gary Furnell has fulfilled his ambition to rescue from oblivion Ernest Hello, contemporary of the Impressionists but a very different sort of manOctober 5, 2025
6 mins
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Venturing beyond non-fiction, the American writer Dawn Tripp brilliantly succeeds in imagining what it was like to be the Queen of CamelotSeptember 27, 2025
8 mins
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Readers of Jon Fosse’s stories, Vaim being the latest, aren’t alone in their confusion. Asked about a character's motive, he replied he had no ideaSeptember 25, 2025
9 mins
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The polymath's experiential commitment to Christianity led him to his famous Wager. Graham Tomlin's brilliant biography leads us to the man himselfSeptember 17, 2025
7 mins
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Australian theatre veteran Jim Daly has produced a vivid memoir of life in an industry where you can be fired for declining to nominate your pronounsSeptember 6, 2025
13 mins
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As a comic novel with serious intent, Chalk and Cheese is a rare gem - an intricate fabrication that is profoundly humanAugust 29, 2025
6 mins
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Amid all this prolixity and confusion, however, is a solid core of memorable poems—some them achingly amusing; others deeply poignant.August 25, 2025
11 mins
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S.K. Kelen's The Cult of What Comes Next provokes many questions, not least about relationship between poetry and beliefAugust 25, 2025
6 mins
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Brenda Niall’s exemplary biography of Joan Lindsay testifies to the power of the biographer’s art and the conversation of interpretationAugust 21, 2025
12 mins
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Author Susan Neiman is proud to call herself a socialist, but whatever her faults, she's angrily at odds with the woke brigadeJuly 15, 2025
5 mins
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On the day of Hamas’s invasion and pogrom, the mere idea of not having an Israel transmogrified into murderous and bloody practiceJuly 8, 2025
11 mins
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Lidia Thorpe, I suspect, would struggle to explain the ideology of settler colonialism, despite its salience in her rather slender vocabulary.June 25, 2025
13 mins
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As Douglas Murray notes, some 130,000 women in Britain have suffered female genital mutilation. In 30 years, not one successful prosecutionJune 12, 2025
19 mins
