The Monthly, July 2008, No. 36

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In This Issue
July 2008 in brief FREE 
The Nation Reviewed
Comment •  Guy Pearse
Old House •  Mungo MacCallum
Katharine’s Place •  Alice Pung
Trivial Pursuit •  Craig Sherborne
The Monthly Essays
John Birmingham
In the Dark? 
The Same Dirty Old Energy
Ashley Hay
Lovely Bones 
Making Sense of the Flores Find
John Hirst
An Oddity from the Start 
Convicts and national character
Nicolas Rothwell
Travels in the northern realm 
The idea of the north
Arts & Letters
More Than Picong •  Louis Nowra
Seeing the Light •  Robert Forster
Pipe Dreams •  Michael Cathcart
Stand & Deliver •  Luke Davies
‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings) •  Gideon Haigh
‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail •  Chris Middendorp
Encounters
The 7th Brigade & the Kaigun Rikusentai •  Shane Maloney



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