Skip to content
Inside Story
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
Menu
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
Books & arts
Books & arts
Soaring above it all
Sylvia Lawson
27 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Woody Allen’s
Midnight in Paris
Books & arts
Speaking truth to power and prejudice
John Besemeres
24 October 2011
Adam Michnik has taken a long journey from student rebel to newspaper editor.
John Besemeres
reviews his new collection of essays
Books & arts
The diplomat
Geoffrey Barker
24 October 2011
Geoffrey Barker
reviews Philip Flood’s memoir of a career in the diplomatic service and as an agency head
Books & arts
The Kid who wouldn’t grow up
Andrew Ford
22 October 2011
Ageing pop musicians find themselves caught between expectations, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Globalisation at ground level
Ramon Lobato
17 October 2011
A new study of Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions reveals a microcosm of “low-end globalisation,” writes
Ramon Lobato
Books & arts
In a bubble on the web
Jason Wilson
12 October 2011
What happens when the internet finds out what we like, asks
Jason Wilson
Books & arts
From the ashes
Tom Griffiths
12 October 2011
Books
| Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & arts
Rising to the operatic
Sylvia Lawson
5 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Eye of the Storm
and enters a controversy about
Red Dog
Books & arts
Every good boy deserves favour
Andrew Ford
5 October 2011
Musical notation is both more and less precise than writing and reading words, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Sensational fiction in Marvellous Melbourne
Kylie Mirmohamadi & Susan K. Martin
5 October 2011
Susan K. Martin
and
Kylie Mirmohamadi
look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Books & arts
Anthropology and remote Aboriginal lives
Diane Austin-Broos
5 October 2011
Diane Austin-Broos
responds to Tim Rowse's review of her book,
A Different Inequality
Books & arts
Not quite nailing a “failed debate”
Tim Rowse
3 October 2011
Tim Rowse
reviews an account of the debate about Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Books & arts
Acting your age
Richard Johnstone
3 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The good, the bad, the ugly
Ramon Lobato
28 September 2011
Robert Manne’s new anti-Murdoch polemic paints a familiar picture of bias and bullying at the
Australian
, writes
Ramon Lobato
. So what else is new?
Books & arts
What will it be like without them?
Sylvia Lawson
20 September 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Page One
and
Pina
Books & arts
Colonialism’s prequel
Lorenzo Veracini
16 September 2011
Julia Clancy-Smith’s
Mediterraneans
looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes
Lorenzo Veracini
Books & arts
Letters from home
Judith Brett
13 September 2011
Judith Brett
reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Books & arts
Fresh ears
Andrew Ford
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Free electrons
Daniel Nethery
7 September 2011
An optimistic account of the Tunisian revolution challenges stereotypes
Books & arts
What is the voter voting for?
Norman Abjorensen
2 September 2011
Norman Abjorensen
looks into the mind of the Australian voter
Books & arts
Crisis management
Klaus Neumann
26 August 2011
Perhaps ten million displaced people live in camps, often for years or even decades, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
Started low and finished high
Richard Johnstone
24 August 2011
Books
|
Richard Johnstone
considers the lobster
Books & arts
Caught again by Catch-22
Brian McFarlane
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary
Brian McFarlane
rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
Books & arts
The madness industry
Brett Evans
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida.
Brett Evans
reviews his new book
Books & arts
Photographic moments, constructed and decisive
Terry Lane
17 August 2011
Terry Lane
reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
The right thing
Ben Goldsmith
17 August 2011
The screening of the ABC’s ambitious courtroom drama,
Crownies
, coincides with a renewed debate about Australian content.
Ben Goldsmith
has been watching them both
Books & arts
Dangerous pleasure
Sylvia Lawson
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Senna
,
Jane Eyre
and
The Illusionist
Books & arts
Something in the water
Linda Jaivin
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin
reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel
The Fat Years
, now available in English
Books & arts
The Islanders: Torres Strait comes to Brisbane
Jeremy Beckett
11 August 2011
Jeremy Beckett
discusses Brisbane’s celebration of Torres Strait Islander culture, which launched in early July and continues until October
Books & arts
Looking at music
Andrew Ford
10 August 2011
Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes
Andrew Ford
Newer posts
Older posts