Books & arts
3 October 2023
How best to capture real lives on the page?
Books & arts
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Books & arts
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Books & arts
1 September 2023
Frank Moorhouse’s first biographer captures a life in motion
Books & arts
30 August 2023
“My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar
Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Books & arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Essays & reportage
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
Books & arts
2 August 2023
How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about?
Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public voice and private life
Books & arts
14 July 2023
In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?
Books & arts
13 July 2023
A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be
Books & arts
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
Books & arts
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
Books & arts
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Essays & reportage
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & reportage
24 May 2023
Inside Story editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday
Books & arts
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & arts
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Essays & reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & arts
14 March 2023
Tanya Plibersek’s biographer makes the case for her “strength of understanding and coolness of judgement”
Books & arts
7 March 2023
Why did Richard Bradford bother writing his biography of the controversial American writer?
Books & arts
15 February 2023
Can photographs unlock the past? Janet Malcolm isn’t so sure
Books & arts
3 February 2023
What impact do biographies of living politicians have on their subjects?
From the archive
1 February 2023
Why did this shy Sydneysider dot his city with a one-word poem?