December 2006 - January 2007
SOCIETY
Love Me Tender?: Sex & power in the age of pornography
Anne Manne
Through an internet chat room, the girl agreed to meet two of the boys at the local shopping centre. There, she was surrounded, overpowered...
More ...Cooking with Love: Recent Food Books
Alan Saunders
Comparisons between food media and pornography are a bit tired by now - the term "gastro-porn" has been around for 20 years - but...
More ...Donald Bradman & Boris Karloff
In the northern summer of 1932, Donald and Jessie Bradman spent their honeymoon crossing North America on a cricket tour sponsored by the...
More ...'Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005'
Chris Middendorp
The uncredited introduction to this anthology somewhat meekly proposes that we shouldn't take high honours in literature too seriously...
More ...Some Things We Don’t Yet Know: Robert Hughes’s "Things I Didn’t Know"
Craig Sherborne
Memoir is a second-class literary citizen. Humans know they should read books regularly: it's an improving thing to do. But how difficult...
More ...MEDIA
A Story of Spin: Stephen Frears’ 'The Queen'
Adrian Martin
It's the type of bold mixture we have not seen on a big or small screen since Kennedy Miller's local epic The Dismissal: on the one hand,...
More ...The Kindness of Strangers: Shaun Tan’s 'The Arrival'
Luke Davies
A man packs his meagre belongings in a city suffocating with fear and foreboding, like Europe in the 1930s. Sinister shadows flicker...
More ...A Thinking Read: The Best Books for Summer
Peter Craven
It's always an odd business to work out the vagaries of what anyone might like to read over Christmas and the New Year. Even the gender...
More ...Haranguing the nation: 'Juan Davila'
Justin Clemens
You can't miss Juan Davila's assault on the human body. In the work [sic.], a one-eyed Grim Reaper, intestines still festering behind the...
More ...The Margins of Our Attention: 25 Years of HIV & AIDS
Dennis Altman
But while Australia's rate of new infections is less than the annual road toll, every day 6000-plus people die from AIDS across the...
More ...Media Circus: Disconnect in the Fourth Estate
David Salter
IT'S TIME YOU WERE TOLD THE TRUTH! fumed 60 Minutes, teasing their version of the New Guinea cannibal saga. If it's finally time...
More ...The Usual Suspects: 'Quadrant' at 50
Martin Krygier
Few little magazines live so long or rise so high. How good is that? Well, Quadrant readers will understand that age is not a good in...
More ...Jumblats Pty Ltd
Charles Firth
It is a hard life bending to the whims of Sally Warhaft. Sally is The Monthly's editor - for the moment, at least - and she is a tough...
More ...Contra Mundum
Kate Holden
A paean in an arcane language derived from ancient Egyptian and Greek; a ceremonial procession of men in Byzantine beards and robes; a...
More ...Happiness Writes White
Clive James
Usually attributed to that prolific aphorist Anonymous, the sadly true notion that "Happiness writes white" probably emerged from Tin Pan...
More ...Kate and the Whale
Ashley Hay
On her third day in Sydney, in late October, Kate George was hoping to see elephants. Given her success with earlier wishes, the chances...
More ...MEDIA
Comment: Jonestown
David Marr
"I think that is so outrageous," brayed Andrew Bolt. We were sitting in the armchairs of the ABC's Insiders, cameras rolling, the morning...
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