Inside Story

Essays & reportage The Great Divide Bill Gammage 20 July 2021 The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth Essays & reportage Fairfax’s blue team Tim Burrowes 16 July 2021 Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers   Books & arts Sea of islands Alison Bashford 16 July 2021 Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging National affairs Bylines and bygones Margaret Simons 16 July 2021 No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment

Books & arts The myth of merit Peter Mares 25 June 2021 Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality Books & arts Sydney’s modernist wave Meg Brayshaw 18 June 2021 Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient Books & arts The teller and the tale Tim Rowse 16 June 2021 What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu Books & arts On seduction, brainwashing and being converted Nick Haslam 15 June 2021 A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips

Books & arts Spy versus spies Stephen Mills 24 May 2021 Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq Books & arts At a hinge point in history Jane Goodall 19 May 2021 Stan Grant distils his travels into an argument about the future From the archive Becoming Taiwanese Klaus Neumann 18 May 2021 Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration Books & arts All quiet about the Western Front Margaret Hutchison 17 May 2021 Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?