Inside Story

Books & arts Looking at ourselves in Pompeii’s mirror Frank Sear 18 June 2013 What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town? Books & arts The limits of empire Henry Reynolds 2 May 2013 Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents 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 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… 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? Britain’s economic tunnel David Hayes 3 December 2012 An endless recession has changed politics and livelihoods. But in a many-sided national argument there is no consensus about its lessons, says David Hayes Essays & reportage It was time: Mick Young’s triumph Stephen Mills 29 November 2012 Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign

National affairs How to win an election Brett Evans 5 June 2012 A timeless guide for politicians with a sting in the tail France’s first facebooks Daniel Nethery 31 May 2012 A recent French exhibition traced the rise of the photograph as a proof of identity and a form of surveillance, writes Daniel Nethery Essays & reportage “Sitting on a tractor, reading a book” Bill Gammage & Ken Inglis 28 February 2012 Ken Inglis and Bill Gammage pay tribute to the distinguished historian, and occasional Inside Story contributor, Hank Nelson, who died earlier this month On Green Lotus Street Duncan Hewitt 1 February 2012 Shanghai doesn’t understand the appeal of its oldest precinct, writes Duncan Hewitt