Inside Story

Books & arts Rules of engagement Holly Cullen 14 July 2026 Are we asking the right questions about the military use of artificial intelligence? Books & arts Ghost family Nick Haslam 14 July 2026 A historian’s quest for his birth family ends up in war-era Vietnam Books & arts What are we building? Frances Flanagan 9 July 2026 A reporter documents the good, the bad and the ugly of AI in the workplace Books & arts Just the thing Patrick Mullins 9 July 2026 Janet Flanner’s despatches from Paris helped make the New Yorker a better magazine than its founder envisaged

Books & arts What makes a good prime minister? Karen Middleton 24 June 2026 Australia’s turn-of-the century PM has cast a long shadow over his successors Books & arts Phantom limb Martha Macintyre 19 June 2026 Siri Hustvedt’s memoir captures how grieving grips the mind and the body Books & arts Into the light Stephanie Miller 17 June 2026 Nora Kate Weston and Eirene Mort lived together for sixty years in a “homosocial” world of women artworkers Books & arts The man who kept the receipts Gordon Peake 12 June 2026 A former USAID staffer sticks his head above the parapet

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 The self-servers Gordon Peake 29 May 2026 A former World Bank economist takes aim at the West’s “civilising mission” Books & arts Asia between peace and war Graeme Dobell 28 May 2026 Can the region avoid a cycle of competition, nationalism and disintegration?