Inside Story

Books & arts Neither here nor there Brian McFarlane 30 May 2018 Extract | Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game Books & arts Australian diplomacy’s creation story Graeme Dobell 23 May 2018 Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world Books & arts The war inside our bodies Sara Dowse 22 May 2018 Books | Does the wellness movement ignore important truths (and take up too much of our time)? Books & arts Europe heads east, Asia heads west Louise Merrington 16 May 2018 Books | A former Portugese politician provides a unique perspective on the landmass that stretches from France to China

Books & arts What counts, and what gets counted Carmela Chivers 4 April 2018 Books | The quest to quantify the performance of our most important institutions can backfire, but what other choice do we have? 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

Books & arts A sort of farewell Richard White 2 February 2018 Books | This new edition of John Rickard’s pathbreaking book is a reminder that he anticipated many of the concerns of subsequent generations of historians 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