Inside Story

Books & arts Donald Horne, citizen intellectual Frank Bongiorno 4 August 2023 A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country Books & arts Labour’s long road to power Peter Kellner 3 August 2023 How a restless party found a new way of thinking about socialism Books & arts Eye of the storm Linda Atkins 2 August 2023 How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about? Books & arts How the machine works Sean Scalmer 31 July 2023 Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock

Retrospective Buckle and strain Patrick Mullins 16 July 2023 In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own? Books & arts The self-fashioning of George Orwell Peter Marks 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 Memoirs of a Middle East tragic Graeme Dobell 12 July 2023 A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world Books & arts Unfriendly fire Mark Baker 12 July 2023 Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan

Books & arts The country we are still to be Henry Reynolds 22 June 2023 Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead reviewed Books & arts The ambiguity of hope Nick Haslam 15 June 2023 Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing? Books & arts The silence that makes sense of modern China Linda Jaivin 13 June 2023 Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution Books & arts Mad for the feathers William McInnes 9 June 2023 A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That?