Skip to content
Inside Story
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
Menu
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
The incrementalists
Sean Kelly
5 July 2023
Is there a case for gradual change in a radical age?
Books & Arts
Russia’s war with the future
Jon Richardson
4 July 2023
Underlying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are existential fears of democracy, diversity, sustainability and the decline of patriarchy
Books & Arts
Fantales
Desley Deacon
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Books & Arts
Three “bloody difficult” subjects
Tim Rowse
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
Books & Arts
Mobile generations
Jock Given
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & Arts
Daily humiliations
Jane Goodall
23 June 2023
Utopia
darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & Arts
The country we are still to be
Henry Reynolds
22 June 2023
Stan Grant’s
The Queen is Dead
reviewed
Books & Arts
The ambiguity of hope
Nick Haslam
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & Arts
The silence that makes sense of modern China
Linda Jaivin
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Books & Arts
Mad for the feathers
William McInnes
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s
What Birdo Is That?
Books & Arts
Baked into our bricks
Zora Simic
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Books & Arts
Fire, ash and official secrecy
Graeme Dobell
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
Books & Arts
Good story, bad theory
Tom Greenwell
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
Books & Arts
Every story tells a picture
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & Arts
Bringing it home
Jane Goodall
30 May 2023
Succession
’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & Arts
Stateless, and loving it
Ryan Cropp
25 May 2023
Inspired by Hong Kong’s rise, countries all over the world created free-market enclaves. But who has really benefited?
Books & Arts
And so on
Frank Yuan
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Books & Arts
The consultants
Jane Goodall
19 May 2023
A new breed of advisers is helping bridge TV’s gap between reality and dramatisation
Books & Arts
President Wilson on the couch
Nick Haslam
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & Arts
Slicing the tide
Marian Quartly
16 May 2023
English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history
Books & Arts
Global reach
Michael Gill
15 May 2023
Do asset managers own the world?
Books & Arts
Injured instincts
Sara Dowse
12 May 2023
Writer Kapka Kassabova continues her beguiling exploration of the Balkans
Books & Arts
We in Germany
Klaus Neumann
8 May 2023
Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany?
Books & Arts
Memento Moro
James Panichi
2 May 2023
What’s missing from Marco Bellocchio’s
Exterior Night
is as compelling as what’s on the screen
Books & Arts
Does anyone have a pencil?
Jamie Hanson
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Books & Arts
Letting loose
Zora Simic
26 April 2023
Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues
Books & Arts
Hank’s razor
Jane Goodall
12 April 2023
A provincial professor tries to cut through
Books & Arts
Ambiguous embrace
Hamish McDonald
3 April 2023
Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific
Books & Arts
Writing history in dark places
Marian Quartly
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
Books & Arts
Social fitness
Nick Haslam
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
Newer posts
Older posts