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
From the archive
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 and private lives
Retrospective
16 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
From the archive
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?