Inside Story

Essays & reportage Her childhood friends Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett Books & arts How Melbourne became cool again Alan Davies 27 March 2018 Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s? Books & arts The shock of the old Joe Rollo 27 March 2018 Books | Australia’s experimental domestic architecture of the 1950s and 60s still challenges mainstream design Essays & reportage Haunted country Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England

Books & arts Was Derek Freeman “mad”? Martha Macintyre 28 January 2018 The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes Books & arts How the public interest went missing in action Carmela Chivers 22 January 2018 Books | Is the US economy suffering from an overriding malady — and could Australia become infected? Books & arts Getting along Janna Thompson 16 January 2018 Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book Books & arts An Iced VoVo and a broken heart Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership

Books & arts A shrewd appraisal of sameness and difference Frank Bongiorno 25 November 2017 A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in Books & arts Making sense of crime Rick Sarre 16 November 2017 Books | A former adviser to Tony Blair tackles conventional views of crime and its causes Essays & reportage Historians’ disgrace? Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case? From the archive A small cedar box Brenda Niall 3 November 2017 Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past