Books & arts
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & arts
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
Books & arts
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
Books & arts
26 September 2022
In Black Lives, White Law, Russell Marks points towards a more hopeful future
Books & arts
21 September 2022
Music played the role only it could play at the Queen’s funeral
Books & arts
21 September 2022
The global financial crisis dramatically changed the role of central banks — and then the pandemic came along
Books & arts
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
Books & arts
7 September 2022
Pianist and composer Tim Stevens eventually returned to the jazz standards, and we have the pandemic to thank
Books & arts
5 September 2022
Does bowing out involve a kind of “self-discipline normally associated with persistence”?
Books & arts
4 September 2022
Both Britain and Australia need to overcome a curious amnesia about their dealings with China
Books & arts
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
Books & arts
4 September 2022
Some exiles are enriched by their journey, others “killed and yet alive”
Books & arts
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to Inside Story about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & arts
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
Books & arts
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Books & arts
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
Books & arts
16 December 2021
An insider’s account of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 exposes the wider failings of the Morrison government
Books & arts
13 December 2021
Why book publishing can be a risky business
Books & arts
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
Books & arts
8 December 2021
Andrew Leigh compellingly describes the “black swan” events we could be facing, but are his proposals equal to the threat?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
Can philosophy really cure good people of bad thinking?
Books & arts
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
Books & arts
1 December 2021
Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work
Books & arts
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
Books & arts
19 November 2021
A mass photography project shows why an iconic image of the pandemic has proved elusive
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder
Books & arts
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries