Inside Story

Books & arts Walter Benjamin reloaded Klaus Neumann 3 June 2026 Three books shed new light on a dazzling and peripatetic thinker — and a motley cast of his contemporaries Books & arts Place of danger Antonia Finnane 3 June 2026 Cheng Lei takes her story onto the stage Books & arts Cracks in the firmament Sara Dowse 2 June 2026 Journalist Julia Cooke brings together three women writers as fearsome as they were fearless Books & arts On the margins Geoff Wilkes 1 June 2026 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s first novel struggles to engage with the self-destruction of the Weimar Republic

Books & arts Stuck Dean Ashenden 22 May 2026 Australian schooling needs restructuring, but who will do it? Books & arts Life lines Philippa Hawker 21 May 2026 Three new films echo real life in distinctive ways Books & arts Geopolitical dreams and nightmares Mark Edele 18 May 2026 How do the “West” and “Eurasia” look from Australia? Books & arts Liberated but not yet free Andrew Bonnell 12 May 2026 Australian writer Nadia Wheatley traces a year in the life of refugees at the former Belsen concentration camp

Books & arts In the midst of life Martha Macintyre 30 April 2026 Talking about death isn’t going to kill you, says anthropologist Hannah Gould Books & arts Strange days Peter Brent 30 April 2026 A Liberal voter who hopes Labor will win? The Hawke–Keating era temporarily turned Australian politics on its head Books & arts How Bob Dylan sounds Andrew Ford 27 April 2026 All along, the singer-songwriter has used a variety of vocal styles and instrumentations Books & arts The woman and the men Zora Simic 23 April 2026 Gisèle Pelicot finds “my words, the thread in my history, an old story, deeply anchored in me”