Inside Story

Books & arts The contradictions of liberal multiculturalism Janna Thompson 5 November 2014 How we should accommodate and respect the values of people who aren’t like us? A new book has some of the answers, writes Janna Thompson Books & arts The senator unplugged Ken Haley 31 October 2014 As much catharsis as history, Gareth Evans’s diaries are a compelling insider account, writes Ken Haley Books & arts How Hamer made it happen Judith Brett 27 October 2014 Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett Books & arts Girl, twenty-eight Sophie Black 22 October 2014 Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black

Books & arts The war that doesn’t end Bill Hannan 11 September 2014 There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools Books & arts Brown sauce in Edinburgh, vinegar in Glasgow Angela Daly 11 September 2014 Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities Books & arts What makes them run? Brett Evans 5 September 2014 Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre 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 China wakes, Asia quakes, Australia shivers Graeme Dobell 25 July 2014 A contest is under way, writes Graeme Dobell, but it will be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash Books & arts Different diagnoses, different cures Tom Westland 23 July 2014 Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently Books & arts Virtuous cycling on the job Helena Liu 23 July 2014 Can work be good for employees and employers? Helena Liu reviews a new book that wrestles with problems of workplace organisation, but doesn’t go quite far enough 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