Inside Story

Essays & reportage What we owe the past, and what we owe the future Tim Oakley 21 October 2022 A former colleague pays tribute to philosopher and Inside Story contributor Janna Thompson Books & arts Portraying the age Geoff Wilkes 4 October 2022 Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties Essays & reportage The correspondent who saw too much  Melissa Roberts 3 October 2022 It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops Books & arts Scenes from a marriage Nicholas Brown 3 October 2022 Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital

Books & arts Good-natured revenge Susan Lever 1 December 2021 Despite his critics, David Williamson created a remarkable body of popular work Essays & reportage The citizen historian Frank Bongiorno 1 December 2021 Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021 Books & arts Garner territory Zora Simic 19 November 2021 Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries Books & arts The outsider Jane Goodall 16 November 2021 Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True

Books & arts Churchill on — and sometimes behind — the screen Brian McFarlane 8 October 2021 Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda Books & arts A mother’s son Sylvia Martin 7 October 2021 An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family From the archive Home is where the mind is Robin Jeffrey 27 September 2021 How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals Books & arts That fella from Down Under Brett Evans 27 September 2021 The first full biography of Scott Morrison tracks a sometimes rocky ride to the prime ministership