A new book explores our fascination with Pompeii and looks at the way artists have used the town, writes Frank Sear
18 Jun 13 Comments (0)Israel’s shifting moorings
Sara Dowse reviews two books that deal, in different ways, with the future of Israel
13 Jun 13 Comments (0)Divining the jury
Juries are confused, but Australian courts don’t seem interested in understanding why, writes Jeremy Gans
11 Jun 13 Comments (0)The best non-famous writer of his generation
Richard Johnstone reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
07 Jun 13 Comments (0)The femocrat factor
Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government? Sara Dowse responds to Anne Summers’s The Misogyny Factor
06 Jun 13 Comments (0)Desire denied
Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp
31 May 13 Comments (0)
The middle-aged mobile
The mobile phone turned forty last month. Ramon Lobato reviews three recent books about the worlds it has created
17 May 13 Comments (0)Women behaving badly
Does Jane Austen teach us how to live? Emphatically no, writes Jill Kitson in this review first published in 2011. And Peter Browne pays tribute to this longstanding Inside Story contributor, who died last weekend
16 May 13 Comments (4)A welcome touch of modesty
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes Frank Bongiorno
09 May 13 Comments (0)
A landmark work of Australian history
Tom Griffiths discusses the career of Mike Smith, author of a major new account of Australia’s desert archaeology
06 May 13 Comments (0)The adaptive eye
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
02 May 13 Comments (0)
A larger purpose, a larger sense of self
Janine Burke on the lives of two painters whose travels shaped their lives and their art
28 Apr 13 Comments (0)The rally-car driver and the one-time dentist
Duncan Hewitt reviews two important – and laconically witty – new books about China’s faultlines and prospects
Comments (0)Tricks of the trade
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says Brett Evans
18 Apr 13 Comments (2)The innocence of Quentin Blake
The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved beyond books, writes Iain Topliss
07 Apr 13 Comments (0)
