Inside Story

Books & arts Walter Benjamin reloaded Klaus Neumann 3 June 2026 Three books shed new light on a dazzling and peripatetic thinker — and a motley cast of his contemporaries Books & arts Cracks in the firmament Sara Dowse 2 June 2026 Journalist Julia Cooke brings together three women writers as fearsome as they were fearless Books & arts On the margins Geoff Wilkes 1 June 2026 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s first novel struggles to engage with the self-destruction of the Weimar Republic Books & arts The self-servers Gordon Peake 29 May 2026 A former World Bank economist takes aim at the West’s “civilising mission”

Books & arts Murdoch versus Murdoch Rodney Tiffen 7 May 2026 Family dynamics dominate a new account of the attention-grabbing dynasty Books & arts Grammarian of the real Tony Hughes-d’Aeth 5 May 2026 The first biography of a key figure in Australia’s twentieth-century literary life Books & arts Bombast of Botany Bay Frank Bongiorno 30 April 2026 Patrick Mullins coaxes big themes out of the story of one of Sydney’s great thrusters Books & arts In the midst of life Martha Macintyre 30 April 2026 Talking about death isn’t going to kill you, says anthropologist Hannah Gould

Books & arts First casualties Mark Baker 20 March 2026 A new account of Australia’s brutal first world war occupation of German New Guinea Books & arts Soaringly together Alecia Simmonds 11 March 2026 Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O’Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of our lives Books & arts To the barricades! Klaus Neumann 11 March 2026 A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled Books & arts The other Mitford Patrick Mullins 7 March 2026 The future “queen of muckraking” fled the rigid class system of her home country for a high-profile career in investigative journalism