Inside Story

Books & arts Soccer by numbers Scott Ewing 15 March 2010 Scott Ewing reviews Soccernomics, which promises to show “why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, and why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey –… Books & arts Tracking Kokoda Hank Nelson 4 December 2009 BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes Hank Nelson Books & arts Driven into action Ian Anderson 23 November 2009 Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering Books & arts The enigma of Chinese modernisation David Kelly 18 November 2009 Opposing itself to the west is stopping China from developing in important ways, writes David Kelly

Books & arts Close to home Klaus Neumann 17 March 2009 Part of the international success of Bernard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, reflects a mistaken view of contemporary Germany, writes Klaus Neumann Books & arts Slowly humanised Judith Armstrong 3 February 2009 Judith Armstrong reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target Books & arts Bureaucracy’s bleeding northern heart Ian Anderson 20 January 2009 Ian Anderson reviews Tess Lea’s innovative Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts Essays & reportage Obama’s soliloquy Klaus Neumann 19 January 2009 The author of Dreams from my Father has the character, intellect and instincts for the job, writes Klaus Neumann