Inside Story

Essays & reportage Venice, washed by many pasts R.J.B. Bosworth 27 August 2014 Duplicitous, pure, dream-like, artificial, psychopathic, unpredictable? Beneath the overheated commentary about Venice, there’s a real city, writes R.J.B. Bosworth Books & arts Character studies Susan Lever 27 August 2014 Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong Essays & reportage Uncivil aviation: Biggles down under Adam Nicol 15 August 2014 W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol Summer season After the fall Janna Thompson 12 August 2014 Does Christianity’s “original sin” help us understand Western culture in the twenty-first century?

From the archive The rise and fall of Labor’s first party professional Stephen Mills 21 July 2014 Cyril Wyndham, the energetic, reformist outsider, changed forever the way Labor organised itself federally. And then he paid the price International China’s Godfather? Kerry Brown 18 July 2014 A controversial new biography of Xi Jinping fundamentally misunderstands the nature of China’s leadership, argues Kerry Brown Essays & reportage How American servicemen found Ernestine Hill in their kitbags Anna Johnston 27 June 2014 Blending journalism, romance and travelogue, The Great Australian Loneliness crossed a different set of borders during the second world war Books & arts The surgeon as bad-tempered hero Frank Bowden 20 June 2014 A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre

Essays & reportage This narrated life Maria Tumarkin 21 May 2014 Storytelling may fit the zeitgeist, but there are truths it can’t reach, writes Maria Tumarkin Books & arts New Zealand as a refuge: half-myths and partial realities David Pearson 8 May 2014 David Pearson reviews a careful but challenging account of New Zealand’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers Books & arts Heads or tails? Jock Given & Marion Mccutcheon 7 May 2014 Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail,” ask Jock Given and Marion McCutcheon Books & arts Game changers Jock Given 6 May 2014 The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes Jock Given