Books & arts
17 July 2023
Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives
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?
Books & arts
1 February 2023
For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne
Books & arts
20 December 2022
How Shirley Hazzard resisted provincialism
Books & arts
20 December 2022
Why was a successful scientist and gifted artist airbrushed out of history?
Essays & reportage
16 December 2022
Journalist Jill Jolliffe’s work took her around the world, but her commitment to East Timorese independence endured
Books & arts
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Books & arts
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
Books & arts
15 November 2022
It depends, says historian Ian Kershaw
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
Books & arts
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & arts
2 November 2022
A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing Crikey
Books & arts
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian