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Desire denied
Glenn Nicholls
31 May 2013
Glenn Nicholls
reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
Books & arts
I get by with a little help from my friends
Frank Bongiorno
23 May 2013
Frank Bongiorno
reviews Nick Cater’s
The Lucky Culture
Books & arts
The middle-aged mobile
Ramon Lobato
17 May 2013
The mobile phone turned forty last month.
Ramon Lobato
reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
Books & arts
A welcome touch of modesty
Frank Bongiorno
9 May 2013
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes
Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts
The go-between
Richard Johnstone
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Michael Jenkins’s
A House in Flanders
Books & arts
The adaptive eye
Brian McFarlane
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
The limits of empire
Henry Reynolds
2 May 2013
Henry Reynolds
reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Books & arts
A larger purpose, a larger sense of self
Janine Burke
28 April 2013
Janine Burke
on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
Books & arts
The rally-car driver and the one-time dentist
Duncan Hewitt
28 April 2013
Duncan Hewitt
reviews two witty new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Books & arts
Tricks of the trade
Brett Evans
18 April 2013
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says
Brett Evans
Books & arts
The innocence of Quentin Blake
Iain Topliss
7 April 2013
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
Books & arts
Feminism at the top table
Sara Dowse
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s
Lean In
Books & arts
Tears before bedtime
Richard Johnstone
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Richard Hughes’s
The Fox in the Attic
Books & arts
How did Cool Denmark become so hot?
Brett Evans
19 March 2013
Brett Evans
looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
Books & arts
The youngish one
Richard Johnstone
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Doris Lessing’s
The Good Terrorist
Books & arts
Why don’t we design better suburbs?
Peter Spearritt
26 February 2013
Peter Spearritt
reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia
Books & arts
Fletch, Muscles and the Rocket
Jock Given
26 February 2013
Books
| Three players, three hard slogs.
Jock Given
on the golden age of Australian tennis
Books & arts
The humility of local consciousness
Jane Goodall
13 February 2013
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing
Kerry Brown
13 February 2013
China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes
Kerry Brown
Books & arts
The lion and the Lion City
Chris Lydgate
12 February 2013
Chris Lydgate
reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state…
Books & arts
Cerebral desire
Richard Johnstone
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s
Climates
Books & arts
What’s in a name?
Richard Johnstone
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Shiva Naipaul’s
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
From the archive
The right kind of middle class?
Frank Bongiorno
19 December 2012
What happened when journalist Peter Coleman assembled a star-studded group of writers in 1962 to rethink the way intellectuals viewed Australia?
Books & arts
Two deaths in Venice
Glenn Nicholls
18 December 2012
On the one-hundredth anniversary of its publication,
Glenn Nicholls
looks at why Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel has stood the test of time
Books & arts
Best (overlooked) books 2012
Inside Story contributors
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Books & arts
In Hollywood with Christopher Isherwood
Richard Johnstone
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews the newly reissued
Prater Violet
Books & arts
Perchance to dream
Sally Ferguson
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes
Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
Emerging Africa
David Dorward
17 November 2012
David Dorward
reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects
Books & arts
Twin virtues
Richard Johnstone
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
A kind of biography
Richard Johnstone
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
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