Inside Story

Books & arts Eastern Europe’s faultline Mark Edele 21 March 2023 A distinguished historian uses one family’s story to illuminate the borderland between Europe and Russia Books & arts Digital dreams Julian Vido 17 March 2023 Can computer technology be relied on to increase equality? Books & arts Dictating democratisation Liam Gammon 17 March 2023 Democracy has spread in a distinctive way among Asia’s success stories Books & arts Jane Austen’s prime minister? Jane Goodall 14 March 2023 Tanya Plibersek’s biographer makes the case for her “strength of understanding and coolness of judgement”

Books & arts With Edith Berry in Geneva Hamish McDonald 21 February 2023 The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters Books & arts On not burning out Frances Flanagan 16 February 2023 Is the workplace malaise bigger than two organisational psychologists believe? Books & arts Taking it or leaving it Richard Johnstone 15 February 2023 Can photographs unlock the past? Janet Malcolm isn’t so sure Books & arts Where No meets Yes Tim Rowse 14 February 2023 Opponents of a constitutionally enshrined Voice warn of many of the features that most attract its proponents

Books & arts The war for the soul of America Rodney Tiffen 27 January 2023 The dire state of the Republican Party has decades-old roots Books & arts Double-sided mirror Martha Macintyre 25 January 2023 How anthropology flourished as colonialism began its decline Books & arts Is this the end of globalisation? John Edwards 25 January 2023 A Financial Times columnist says yes, but the figures tell a different story Books & arts The beat of a different drum Jane Goodall 24 January 2023 A fragment of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose has become a compelling psychological drama