Inside Story

Tales of the unexpected Clar Ni Chonghaile 2 May 2013 The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes Clar Ni Chonghaile Essays & reportage Old medium, new century Jock Given 30 April 2013 By the end of the year, Australia’s cinema industry will no longer be a film industry. Jock Given looks at what this means for storytelling on the big screen Books & arts Such a bloody wonderful place Sylvia Lawson 28 April 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No Ken Loach’s dreamland David Hayes 28 April 2013 The renowned director’s new film, which uses the socialist mood of 1945 to assail the world Margaret Thatcher created, is bad history and worse politics, says David Hayes

Books & arts Small armies Sylvia Lawson 28 June 2012 A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Rough passages Sylvia Lawson 14 June 2012 Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Unwasted moments Sylvia Lawson 30 May 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews Silent Souls, Wish You Were Here and Love Letters from Teralba Road Books & arts How weird does this mob still seem? Brian McFarlane 1 May 2012 Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes Brian McFarlane

Books & arts Power play Sylvia Lawson 8 February 2012 Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards Books & arts Old-fashioned politics Sylvia Lawson 12 January 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March Books & arts Real-life melodrama Richard Johnstone 12 January 2012 Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s Books & arts Dissolving borders Sylvia Lawson 15 December 2011 Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson