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Taking flight
Sylvia Lawson
4 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Rust and Bone
and looks at the continuing controversy over
Zero Dark Thirty
Books & arts
Tears before bedtime
Richard Johnstone
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Richard Hughes’s
The Fox in the Attic
Books & arts
How did Cool Denmark become so hot?
Brett Evans
19 March 2013
Brett Evans
looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
Books & arts
The man who wasn’t there
Sylvia Lawson
19 March 2013
Sylvia Lawson
on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
Books & arts
Watching the audience
Andrew Ford
13 March 2013
A composer doesn’t often see people in the act of listening to music, writes
Andrew Ford
. WOMADelaide was an opportunity to take a look
Books & arts
The youngish one
Richard Johnstone
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Doris Lessing’s
The Good Terrorist
Books & arts
Gripped tight
Sylvia Lawson
27 February 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Why don’t we design better suburbs?
Peter Spearritt
26 February 2013
Peter Spearritt
reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia
Books & arts
Fletch, Muscles and the Rocket
Jock Given
26 February 2013
Books
| Three players, three hard slogs.
Jock Given
on the golden age of Australian tennis
Books & arts
Fast fashion
Sophie Black
26 February 2013
Books
| Elizabeth Cline’s three hundred-piece wardrobe makes her an average American consumer
Books & arts
Well-made music
Andrew Ford
21 February 2013
Andrew Ford
on the life and work of Lennox Berkeley
Books & arts
Perfect storms
Tom Bamforth
18 February 2013
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes
Tom Bamforth
Books & arts
Drones in the distance
David Stephens
14 February 2013
Western policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on an outdated imperial playbook and a modern but mistaken belief in “surgical strikes,” writes
David Stephens
Books & arts
A slice of Alice Springs
Eleanor Hogan
14 February 2013
Eleanor Hogan
reviews Warwick Thornton’s film installation,
Mother Courage
Books & arts
The humility of local consciousness
Jane Goodall
13 February 2013
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing
Kerry Brown
13 February 2013
China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes
Kerry Brown
Books & arts
The lion and the Lion City
Chris Lydgate
12 February 2013
Chris Lydgate
reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state…
Books & arts
Shades of green, black and white
David Bowman
7 February 2013
David Bowman
considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands
Books & arts
Cerebral desire
Richard Johnstone
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s
Climates
Books & arts
What’s in a name?
Richard Johnstone
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Shiva Naipaul’s
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Books & arts
Inside or out?
Sylvia Lawson
2 January 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
The sparkle of the miniature
Andrew Ford
28 December 2012
Andrew Ford
on the life and work of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Books & arts
Two deaths in Venice
Glenn Nicholls
18 December 2012
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication,
Glenn Nicholls
looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
Books & arts
Best (overlooked) books 2012
Inside Story contributors
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Books & arts
In Hollywood with Christopher Isherwood
Richard Johnstone
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews the newly reissued
Prater Violet
Books & arts
Perchance to dream
Sally Ferguson
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes
Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
A cautious kind of hope
Sylvia Lawson
29 November 2012
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Emerging Africa
David Dorward
17 November 2012
David Dorward
reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects
Books & arts
Twin virtues
Richard Johnstone
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
More than the sum of their parts
Andrew Ford
26 October 2012
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven composed the first song cycle, Paul Kelly has unveiled two – an album and a performance at the Melbourne Festival – writes
Andrew Ford
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