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Books & arts Jane Goodall 24 March 2016 Television | It’s War and Peace’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes Jane Goodall. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts Carolyn Holbrook 21 March 2016 Books | Anna Clark gives academic historians plenty to think about, writes Carolyn Holbrook International David Hayes 15 March 2016 Harold Wilson, born a century ago this month, imprinted himself on the public imagination Books & arts Meg Gurry 1 March 2016 Books | Meg Gurry reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 29 February 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson views Looking for Grace through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film
National affairs Dominic Kelly 25 February 2016 After languishing for a decade, the radically deregulatory H.R. Nicholls Society is being revived. On its thirtieth anniversary, Dominic Kelly assessed its legacy for Inside Story
Books & arts Susan Lever 22 February 2016 Books | Crawford Productions was created in the early years of Australian TV, writes Susan Lever, and its influence is still alive in the industry Essays & reportage Brett Evans 11 February 2016 Australia’s long-awaited transition to decimal currency wasn’t without its problems National affairs Jim Bowler 9 February 2016 It’s time for funds and a plan to preserve and commemorate this visitor from Ancient Australia, writes Jim Bowler, the geologist who discovered Mungo Man’s remains Essays & reportage Peter Browne 18 January 2016 Robert Menzies’s name is synonymous with Australia’s long postwar boom. The conventional story is part myth, part reality
Essays & reportage Tom O'Regan 4 January 2016 The celebrated poet invented his own way of writing about the films of the early sound era, says Tom O’Regan
Books & arts Greg Lehman 21 December 2015 Books | Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes Greg Lehman Books & arts Graeme Dobell 17 December 2015 Books | Graeme Dobell reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 15 December 2015 Cinema | Philip Noyce’s 1978 feature was an antidote to the tasteful costume dramas of the reviving Australian film industry, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Brian McFarlane 15 December 2015 Cinema | Suffragette seems doubly overdue, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts Carolyn Holbrook 10 December 2015 Books | Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & arts Andrew Ford 8 December 2015 How important to music is time and place? National affairs Norman Abjorensen 26 November 2015 History and his government’s record suggest it won’t happen, writes Norman Abjorensen Books & arts Susan Lever 23 November 2015 Books | Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes Susan Lever. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena Books & arts Ben Wade 19 November 2015 Books | Through agitation, confrontation, persuasion and legislation a group of reformers helped shape today’s medical landscape, writes Ben Wade
International Graeme Dobell 18 November 2015 Just over a century ago another movement tried to terrify the West, writes Graeme Dobell. Its failure helps illuminate ISIS’s campaign and its likely impact
Books & arts Michael Cannon 18 November 2015 A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure International Damir Mitrić and Sudbin Musić 18 November 2015 The story of how London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit came to commemorate victims of genocide points to the failure of the settlement signed twenty years ago, write Damir … Books & arts Paul Rodan 10 November 2015 Books | The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes Paul Rodan. Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted Daniel Nethery 30 October 2015 It’s seventy years since France introduced major social security laws. Daniel Nethery was there for the celebration
Books & arts Anne Maxwell 12 October 2015 Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
From the archive Klaus Neumann 3 October 2015 The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 30 September 2015 When America sneezes, writes Andrew Leigh, Australian state governments catch a cold. And when the weather turns bad, guess who’s held responsible? Books & arts Jane Goodall 31 August 2015 Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall Essays & reportage Gillian Cowlishaw 19 August 2015 Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline…