Inside Story

Books & arts Now, down to business Patrick Mullins 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 Whatever happened to the revolution? Philippa Hawker 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 Are we counting what really counts? Andrew Leigh 25 September 2025 Statisticians are struggling to capture the twenty-first-century economy Books & arts Age of resentment Glyn Davis 24 September 2025 A “realist capable of idealism” offers a bracing analysis of a world gripped by emotion

Books & arts How Hamas hardened Peter Rodgers 11 September 2025 Divisions within the Palestinian organisation combined with Israeli pressure to tragic effect Books & arts From deserts the profits come Jim Davidson 11 September 2025 Universities and the assault on cultural infrastructure Books & arts The sound of music Andrew Ford 10 September 2025 Melody, rhythm, lyrics, arrangements: it’s the sonority of familiar music that we carry with us Books & arts King hit Philippa Hawker 9 September 2025 Spike Lee’s new movie, now streaming, is a drama about music, mayhem and moral dilemmas

Books & arts How The Leopard changed its spots James Panichi 18 August 2025 Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel Books & arts Living recipes Seumas Spark 14 August 2025 Collaboration is reconciliation, say the authors of The Australian Ingredients Kitchen Books & arts If something can’t go on forever, it will stop John Quiggin 14 August 2025 A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates Books & arts Chock full of chutzpah Brett Evans 13 August 2025 “Go to Australia. Now,” said the used car salesman in Toronto. And would-be impresario Lee Gordon did just that