Books & arts
The best non-famous writer of his generation
Richard Johnstone
7 June 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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