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The Monthly
February 2012, No. 75
February 2012 in brief
Comment: Address to the US President
The Art of Ideas
The Beat Goes On
The Looks Department
Long in the Tooth
Divided We Fall
So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?
The Elephant in the Room
In the Picture
Angry Boys
The Bride Wore Black
Citizen Kael
Gumbo
Philosophic Emissions
The Politics of News
'The Chemistry of Tears' By Peter Carey
'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
Senator Brett Mason
Glenn Sutherland
Margaret Johnson
Jedda Bradley
February 2012
December 2011 - January 2012, No. 74
December 2011 – January 2012 in brief
Comment: Phoney Education
Work and Play
Island Rising
The Sitting Act
The Baskerville Case
Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
The Lady Killers
All About Cory
CanDo? Campbell Newman’s Bid for Queensland
The Stars My Destination
The Life Not Lived
Whirlpool
The Orange-bellied Parrot
At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Three Boys
This Helplessness
No Script, No Storyboard
No One Comes To See Me Now
Treasure in the Attic
An Auteur Planet
'Foal’s Bread' By Gillian Mears
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia' By Bill Gammage
Gareth Evans & Ali Alatas
Senator Bob Brown
Lucas Walsh
Colin Bradford
A. (Len) Puglisi
December 2011 - January 2012
November 2011, No. 73
November 2011 in brief
Comment: Palin Politics and the Tea Party
It Tolls for Thee: Generation Text
London Calling
A Small Breed
A Journey through North-western NSW with Filmmaker Ivan Sen
The Book of Paul
Window Dressing: The Mirage of Political Reform
Caught in the Game
A Quiet Anniversary
What We Learned in Copenhagen
When the Centre Cannot Hold
New Labor Dreaming
Age of Innocence
Right Composition
Spin It: 30 Albums
'What the Family Needed' By Steven Amsterdam
'1Q84' Books 1, 2 and 3 By Haruki Murakami
Morris West & Ngo Dinh Diem
Graham Macdonald
Craig Ellis
Greg Marks
Philip Drew
Cameron Ljubic
Alan Brotherton
Daniel Connell
November 2011
October 2011, No. 72
October 2011 in brief
Comment: ABC’s The Book Show and Ramona Koval
Comment
I Heart New Yorker
The Legend of Jandamarra
Garage Alchemists
The Bolt Factor
Prescribing Behaviour
Water Under the Bridge
20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000
Fashion Masterpiece
Theatre Masterpiece
Ballet Masterpiece
Video Art Masterpiece
Performance Art Masterpiece
Visual Art (Three-Dimensional) Masterpiece
Visual Art (Two-Dimensional) Masterpiece
Architecture Masterpiece
Design Masterpiece
Film Masterpiece
Television Masterpiece
Contemporary Dance Masterpiece
Music Theatre Masterpiece
Stand-Up Comedy Masterpiece
Popular Music Masterpiece
Classical Masterpiece
Jazz Masterpiece
Opera Masterpiece
Fiction Masterpiece
Poetry Masterpiece
Fathers & Sons
Queen of the Night
Clean As You Go
Bodying Forth
Bowing to the Bard
Line of Appeal
Taking to the Woods
Out of the Bay
What Happens Next
'The Street Sweeper' By Elliot Perlman
'Autumn Laing' By Alex Miller
What’s in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography
Robert Helpmann & Anna Pavlova
Geraldine Moore
Tony Morton
Professor Ian Lowe
John Connor
Dr Liz Moore
October 2011
September 2011, No. 71
September 2011 in brief
The Climate Movement
Riding High
Order is Everything
Triple Zero’s Emergency
The Porn Ultimatum
Booze Territory
Knight in Shining Armani
How We Lost the War
The Kid Grows Up
The Magic of Exile
Shakespeare in Australia
Republic of Art
'Sarah Thornhill' By Kate Grenville
'Her Father’s Daughter' By Alice Pung
Helmut Newton and Alice Springs
Mike Hopkins
Thomas Ryan
James Boyce
Lars Norberg
Craig Ellis
September 2011
August 2011, No. 70
August 2011 in brief
Comment: Political Leadership in Australia
Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
Coal’s Next Alibi
Gourmet Gore
The United States of Chris Mitchell
Prime Minister, Interrupted
Two Nations
Out of the Box
Under the Skin
Maybe Baby
After Life
What’s Sex Got To Do With It
Air Traffic Out of Control
'Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now' Art Gallery of South Australia
'Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future' By Paul Cleary
Captain Arthur Phillip & Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse
Professor Paul Fitzgerald
Philip Harvey
Ralph Blunden
Tom Clark
August 2011
July 2011, No. 69
July 2011 in brief
Comment
Comment
Sparkle and Shine
The Quest for Muslim Jedis
In the Rat Room
Second Life
Minds at Risk
The Hot Seat
After Spring
Stardust Memories: In Search of Real Italian Food
Empire of the Mind
Beneath the Boulevards
Like the Day and Night
Couch Habit
Sound Harvest
Vanity Case
'The Hall of Uselessness' By Simon Leys
'Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing' By Craig Collie
Howard Florey & Alexander Fleming
Roy Burrows
Jill Adams
Dr Shaneen Fantin
July 2011
June 2011, No. 68
June 2011 in brief
Comment
Comment: Hazara Asylum Seekers
Expert Appetite: The Plight of the Connoisseur
Where the Heart Is
The Silk Road
Bitter Fruits
The Sun King
Home Improvement
Sex Before Soccer
Through the Cracks
Under Surveillance
Ever Unforgiven
Art of Dissent
Last Words
Shipped Down Under
'Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial' By Janet Malcolm
'The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution' By Francis Fukuyama
Barry Jones & Arthur Koestler
John Kaye
Stephen Holt
Dr Terry Stokes
June 2011
May 2011, No. 67
May 2011 in brief
Comment
Speech Bubbles
Will to Live
Owners of Australia
What’s Right? The Future of the Liberal Party
Can We Be Heroes?
Spirit of Independence
The Foundering Miracle
The Work of Catfish
The Sound of Silence
Tide of Improvement
In the Fjords
Holiday on Ice
Letter to a Bulgarian Friend
Wanted for Loitering
To Timbuktu and Back
Beastly Travels
The Quiet Peninsula
Lessons in Unlearning
Too Much Information
A Grand History
Broken Communities
'Cloudstreet' By Matthew Saville
'Mrs Carey’s Concert' by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond
'Caleb’s Crossing' By Geraldine Brooks
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & the Platypus
Nick Davies
Chris Palazzolo
May 2011
April 2011, No. 66
April 2011 in brief
Comment
Comment: The ALP Afterlife
Inside the Pillbox: Bullying in the Workplace
The Bird Man and Mrs Gluck
Who’s Afraid of Marcia Langton?
Chariots of Fire: Tony Blair’s Legacy
Out of Bounds
Postcolonial Blues
The Old Boy
To the Heart
Case Histories
Triumph of the Kill
'Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory' By Patrick Wilcken
'Against Remembrance' By David Rieff
George W Bush & John Newcombe
Stephen O’Rourke
Barry Naughten
Stéphane Levinson
Margaret Brennan
Daniel Laurence
April 2011
March 2011, No. 65
March 2011 in brief
Comment
The Devil Within
Taste-Making
Cannibal Cookery
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
The Fox News Show
Hard Times
Maggie’s War
Cry Freedom
Balancing Acts
Economies of Scale
'How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism' By Eric Hobsbawm
'The Many Worlds of RH Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist' By Martin Thomas
Bunyip Bluegum & Albert, A Magic Pudding
Anne Lampe
March 2011
February 2011, No. 64
February 2011 in brief
Comment
Comment
A Tale of Two Cities
Life Juices
Lousy Science
Into the Beehive
Crises of Faith
In the Eye of the Storm
Falling Stars
Too Much Heaven on their Minds
Paths of Glory
Parallel Lives
'Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage' By Hazel Rowley
'How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices Ahead' By Dambisa Moyo
John Peter Russell & Vincent van Gogh
Barry Donovan
Nazeem Hussain
Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic
Apology to Hugh Lunn
February 2011
December 2010 - January 2011, No. 63
December 2010 - January 2011 in brief
Comment
Archive This
Fat of the Land
Christmas Blues
Court Order
The Way to the Watering Hole
A Nobel Affair
An Otter's Life
Secret Worlds
While Not Writing a Book
First-Class Passage
The Gaza Strips
The Voyage
A Touch of the Sun
Scream
High Priest
Man of Wood
Magical Thinking
Failure to Communicate
'Hand Me Down World' By Lloyd Jones
'Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century' by Hugh White
Harry Vanda & George Young
Rosemary O'Brien
Robin Boyne
Angus Donohoo
Adam Henry
Michael Kozlowski
Michael Price
Barry Naughten
Hugh Lunn
December 2010 - January 2011
November 2010, No. 62
November 2010 in brief
Comment
The Price of Parenthood
Dancing in the Dark
Bad Old Days
No Exit
Hidden Agendas
A Matter of Faith
Exodus
Under the Bridge
Lest We Forget
Shadow Play
Too Smart to Run Back
Tools of the Trade
'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary' by David Sedaris
'The Man Who Loved Children' by Christina Stead
Rupert Murdoch & Kamahl
Graeme Dunstan
Pamela McGrath
Peter Sanfilippo
Les Murray
November 2010
October 2010, No. 61
October 2010 in brief
Comment
Not My Type
Blanche’s Boy
Homing Truths
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Exclamation Politics
Dividing the Territory
The Mission
How Not to Win the Melbourne Cup
The Faith of Images
Primary Care
The Infinite
Roots
Quaint Misogyny
'How to Make Gravy' By Paul Kelly
'The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis' by Lydia Davis
Patrick White & Sidney Nolan
Robyn Williams
Andrew Duguid
Harry Throssell
Angus Martin
October 2010
September 2010, No. 60
September 2010 in brief
Comment
Bread and Butter
Taking Care
Means of Production
Land of the Long Black Cloud
The Cult of Green
Body Politic
The Blast Zone
Sister Act
The Diary of a Maestro
Barnsey's Blues
Father Knows Worst
The Politics of Prose
'Freedom' by Jonathan Franzen
'Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests' by Anna Krien
Doctor Who & Gai Waterhouse
Mungo MacCallum
September 2010
August 2010, No. 59
August 2010 in brief
Comment
Greenwash
Not Rocket Science
Beating the Pokies
A Man's Not A Camel
The Hollowmen
The States of the Nation
China's Quarry
Duty of Care
From Berlin to the Bush
Infinite Anthology
Strange Beasts
Theatre of Operations
Connective Tissue
'Rocks in the Belly' by Jon Bauer
'Brisbane' by Matthew Condon
Joe Lyons & Benito Mussolini
Shashikala Davidson
Tad Tietze
August 2010
July 2010, No. 58
July 2010 in brief
Comment
The Only Things I Remember From School
Hair Apparent
Tuckshop Duty
Jewel of Melbourne
Heart to Heart
A Green Balance?
The Battle for Bennelong: Round Two
Life Sentence
Fire Walk with Me
The Next Chapter
Primal Scenes
Food for Thought
Births, Deaths and Marriages
Family Intelligence
The Public Mind
Rock and Roll Babble On
'Indelible Ink' by Fiona McGregor
'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco
Douglas Mawson & Scott of the Antarctic
Nick Minchin
John Armstrong
Correction
July 2010
June 2010, No. 57
June 2010 in brief
Comment
Comment
Comment
The Hard Stuff
Confidence Trick
Domestic Spectacles
Links
From the Chrysalis
Gendercide
Life of Brian
The Absent Heart
Something about Mary
Writing from the Grave
State of Tomorrow
My Three Sons
Out on the Weekend
Artful Excess
Body of Work
'War' by Sebastian Junger
'The Family Law' by Benjamin Law
Count Paul Strzelecki & Lady Jane Franklin
Howard Walter
John Hayward
Richard Horobin
June 2010
May 2010, No. 56
May 2010 in brief
Comment
Heaven, Hell and Limbo
Flavour of the Nation
Bush Love
Tincture of Health
King Coal
Nuclear Dawn
Coe & Co.
Liquid Handcuffs
Clueless
Swinger
Faraway Tales
The Music of Time
The Odd Couple
The Alchemist
'Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Fueds' by Lyndall Gordon
'Trouble: Evolution of a Radical / Selected Writings 1970–2010' by Kate Jennings
Allen Ginsberg & Wandjuk Marika
Healthy Networks
Keeping it Safe
Trouble in the ’Hood
May 2010
April 2010, No. 55
April 2010 in brief
Comment
Comment
Comment
Keep Calm, Buy Posters
Bad Hotel
Mortal Coil
Plots
Strictly Speaking
Amateur League
Like a Virgin
Known Unknowns
The Possessed
End of History
Nobel Calling
As Long As It’s Black
Classical Complex
'Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism' by Natasha Walter
'Solar' by Ian McEwan
Kissinger & Burchett
Nowra’s Misogyny
His Better Self?
No Easy Answers
April 2010
March 2010, No. 54
March 2010 in brief
Comment
The Tree People
Water Gods
Good Neighbours
Ghost Writers
Close at Hand
The Wild Frontier
Dangerous Precedent
The Better Self?
Blankett Slate
Divine Comedy
Progressively Liberal
Distant Sounds
Through a Glass Brightly
'Point Omega' by Don DeLillo
'Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry' by Leanne Shapton
600 Million Rabbits & Myxomatosis
Degenerate Art
Collective Liberties
March 2010
February 2010, No. 53
February 2010 in brief
Comment
Comforter
Impresario
Strutting & Fretting
Saga
Supermarket Sweep
The Whirling Dervish
The Biggest Loser
Ebony
Divine Intervention
Lost Boys
Easy Rider
The Sins of the Son
Liberal Fundamentalist
Border Crossings
'The Pregnant Widow' by Martin Amis
'The Legacy' by Kirsten Tranter
Percy Grainger & Edvard Grieg
Boho-free Films
Right to Instant Gratification
Not in Favour
A Market Imbalance
February 2010
December 2009 - January 2010, No. 52
December 2009 - January 2010 in brief
Comment
Comment
Tried Again
Dead, Wrapped in Cardboard
Pigs Might Fly
A Fava Fresca!
A Wild Colonial Boy
Failed State
From Mop Tops To Moustaches
Nowhere Near Hollywood
Bright Stars
Coming Of Age
Neon Statements
Cold Turkey
Daytime Nightmares
Broken Record
‘The Anthologist’ by Nicholson Baker
‘So This Is Life: Tales from a Country Childhood’ by Anne Manne
Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova
The Republic
Afghanistan
Australian Television
Female Contributors
Local Music
December 2009 - January 2010
November 2009, No. 51
November 2009 in brief
Comment
Comment
Comment
Pirate Politics
A Necessary Idea
Sodom and Gomorrah in Suburbia
Masterchef
Golden Eye
Changing Frontiers
Copenhagen and Beyond
Copenhagen and Beyond
The Brutal Truth
Rising Son
Obscured by Clouds
Sub-prime
Animating Spirits
Stockholm Syndrome
Tooth and Claw
School for Gangsters
'Manhood for Amateurs' by Michael Chabon
'Lovesong' by Alex Miller
Richard Casey & Mahatma Gandhi
A Longer View
Qualified Stupidity
The Subject of Biography
November 2009
October 2009, No. 50
October 2009 in brief
Comment
Comment
Purgatory
Socratic Dialogues
Dance With Me, Baby
Death Notice
Bad Behaviour
The Insider
Mash-up
In Retreat
Curtain Call
C'est la vie
The Other Biography
Feral Howl
Beautiful Waste
Tasmanian Devils
"Piano Lessons" by Anna Goldsworthy
"Barley Patch" by Gerald Murnane
Frank Sinatra & Bob Hawke
Uncovered
Zombie Politics
Unrepentant
Show Trial
Dogmatic Science
October 2009
September 2009, No. 49
September 2009 in brief
Comment
Harvest
Sleepers, Awake
Small-Time Big Top
Ningaloo Sharks
The Indian Ocean Solution
Only Itself to Blame: The Church of Scientology
This Year's Model
The Death of the Good Father
The Cambodian Genocide
Prepared
Amoral Tale
A Federer Game
Unbelievers
'The Bee Hut' by Dorothy Porter
'Inherent Vice' by Thomas Pynchon
Miles Franklin & Joseph Furphy
Bloody Religion
Fragile Heart
Wrong Son
Be Prepared
Credit Check
September 2009
August 2009, No. 48
August 2009 in brief
Comment
Comment
The MCG and the Mango Tree
Beat Up
City Lights
Croakers
Cafe Clairvoyants
Looking West
The Good Son
A Proper Wedding
Into the Shadowed Heart
Setting Herself Apart
Democratic Hubris
Cover Story
Waste-Makers
Genesis
'Zeitoun' by Dave Eggers
'Tom Is Dead' by Marie Darrieussecq
Norman Gunston & Frank Zappa
Cover Girls
Mistaken Heart
Roos & Boomers
Not So Gay
Corporate ‘Personhood’
August 2009
July 2009, No. 47
July 2009 in brief
Comment
Comment
Botanical Curiosities
Soiled Goods
A Gay Old Time
Why We Weren’t Warned
Home Truths
A Matter of Taste
Chinese Whispers
Revolving Doors
Brought to Booker
Tudor Style
The Pretendies
Dirty Work
‘This Is How’ by MJ Hyland
‘Figurehead’ by Patrick Allington
Faith Bandler & Paul Robeson
July 2009
June 2009, No. 46
June 2009 in brief
Comment
Cold Comfort
Haiku Hikers
Hollywood Ending
The Coming Storm
Patriot Acts
In the Garden
Credo
Goodbye to All That
Lost Women Found
Two Stroke
Here I Stand
"Reunion" by Andrea Goldsmith
"A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity" by Nicholas St
Peter Finch & Vivien Leigh
John Nicol
Jim Filshie
David Christie
June 2009
May 2009, No. 45
May 2009 in brief
Comment
Incentivising
School Days
C90
The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis
The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis
The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis
The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis
The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis
Into the Red
Troy Revisited
Purgatory
Turning a Mouse into an Elephant
Castaway
In Search of a Songwriter
"Bodies" by Susie Orbach
"Jasper Jones: A Novel" by Craig Silvey
Brian Burke & Nicolae Ceausescu
John Kilcullen
Simon Plunkett
David Smiley
Dr Louis Arnoux
May 2009
April 2009, No. 44
April 2009 in brief
Comment
The Third Wave
Time Loop
Born Again
Endnotes
The King & I
The Pursuit of Usable Beauty
Seers
The Good Soldier
Thoughts in the Middle of a Career
Snow Falling on Vampires
Beachmaster
"The Striped World" by Emma Jones
"Things We Didn’t See Coming" by Steven Amsterdam
Paul Keating & Jack Lang
Bill Alcock
Minnie Biggs
April 2009
March 2009, No. 43
March 2009 in brief
Comment
The Road to Kinglake
Hideout
Sinking Sandbanks
Neo-Liberal Meltdown
Hidden Treasure
Murder on Arena Avenue
Those Most Peculiar People
Last Man Standing
Vanity Fare
For a Few Dollars More
Arise!
Tales of the City
Strangers in the Night
Shots
Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs: What Your Kids Really Want and Need to Know About Alcohol and Drugs
Eugene Goossens & the Witch of Kings Cross
John Anon
Kelly Sumner
Minnie Kent Biggs
Gregory Solomons
Leone Healy
March 2009
February 2009, No. 42
February 2009 in brief
Comment
Backyard Blitz
Open Market
Representing
Looking Sheepish
The Global Financial Crisis
Gone with the Wind
Boxing for Palm Island
The Comeback Kid
Unhappy Families
Life Inside
Nature Boy
Mind / Body
Statesman
Numismatics
'Outliers: The Story of Success' by Malcolm Gladwell
'The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty' by Peter Singer
Helena Rubinstein & the Merino
Ria Murch
Rob Siedle
David Morrissey
Mark Smith
Alan Ecob
Leeanne Zamagias
Russell Edwards
Lee Palmer
John Cleland
Leone Healy
Michael Kitson
February 2009
December 2008 - January 2009, No. 41
December 2008 - January 2009 in brief
Comment
Panic & Censor
The Ant & the Butterfly
Ally of the Dolls
The Black Polo
Once Upon a Time in America
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow
Feeling Lucky
Going Private
Big Thoughts, Empire Burlesque
Between a Muddle & a Mystery
A Stockingful
Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2008-09
Slippin’
Southern Discomfort
'From Little Things Big Things Grow' by Paul Kelly & Kev Carmody
'Vertigo: A Novella' by Amanda Lohrey
'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison
Alfred Deakin & John Bunyan
Jonathan Bedloe
Michael James
Sunili Govinnage
Ralph Seccombe
December 2008 - January 2009
November 2008, No. 40
November 2008 in brief
Comment
Ursa Major
Following Menzies
Hair Care
What is Rudd’s Agenda?
A New Desert
Everything & More
Flappers & Snappers
The Conflict Business
Unsettled
High Wire Acts
What Might Have Been
'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas
Thea Proctor & Margaret Preston
Ron Spielman
Leone Healy
Marie Coleman
November 2008
October 2008, No. 39
October 2008 in brief
Comment
Macbeth on Monday
24/7
Jung at Heart
La Travesty
Silent Country
Coup-Coup Land
The Return of the Wichita Lineman
Six Degrees of Apocalypse
Contempt
Pilgrimage
The Remembering
'Dissection' by Jacinta Halloran
'Netherland' by Joseph O’Neill
Daniel Mannix & BA Santamaria
Stuart Hill
Hal GP Colebatch
Irving Saulwick
Minnie Kent Biggs
Bruce Martin
Warwick Grundy
Adrian Collette
October 2008
September 2008, No. 38
September 2008 in brief
Comment
A Tale of Two Sittings
Operation Tom Yum
Saving Yourself
The Penalty Is Death
On Fragments and Dust
Under the Rainshadow
Only Look, Only See
Unhappy Endings
Totally Wired
‘Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All’ by Christina Thompson
‘The Phantom’, No. 1518
‘Banjo’ Paterson & Rudyard Kipling
Alicia Patterson
Rhiannon Brown
Jennifer Cramer
September 2008
August 2008, No. 37
August 2008 in brief
Comment
Ponyboy at 55
The Ring Cycle
On the Edge
The Wanderer
Levelling with China
Sir Donald Bradman at 100
In the Wake of Magellan
Horrorshow
Children of the Revolutions
Back to College
In Search of Essence
‘Tales from Outer Suburbia’ by Shaun Tan
‘Bright Air’ by Barry Maitland
‘The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age’ by David Okuefuna
Isabel Letham & Duke Kahanamoku
Bill Hyde
August 2008
July 2008, No. 36
July 2008 in brief
Comment
Old House
Katharine’s Place
Trivial Pursuit
In the Dark?
Lovely Bones
An Oddity from the Start
Travels in the Northern Realm
More Than Picong
Seeing the Light
Pipe Dreams
Stand & Deliver
‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings)
‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail
The 7th Brigade & the Kaigun Rikusentai
Jim Connolly
Simon Nasht
July 2008
June 2008, No. 35
June 2008 in brief
Comment
Divertimento
The Charm of a Charm
Repo Man
Franchise Nation
Agent of Influence
Wilfred Burchett booklist
Club Rules
Living
Sing Out Loud, Sing Out Strong
The Banjo Is the New Stratocaster
The Bigger Devil
And You Can Too
Winging It
Such Desirable Objects
‘Big Love’, Season 2, SBS Television
‘The Boat’ by Nam Le
Nana Mouskouri & Frank Hardy
Margaret Merrilees
Jamie Miller
Donna McDonald
June 2008
May 2008, No. 34
May 2008 in brief
Comment
Razor-Gang Blues
Hiraeth
Organic Matter
Lies, Damned Lies
Obama!
Not All Black & White
Digging
John Button, 1933–2008
In the Giant Green Cathedral
The Uncorking
Committed
Unbridled
‘The Story of Forgetting’ by Stefan Merrill Block
‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard
Sir Henry Parkes & Henry Lawson
Peter Isaacson
Joan Croll
May 2008
April 2008, No. 33
April 2008 in brief
Comment
If Those Trains Had Only Run …
The Silence of the Phones
The Orange-Bellied Parrot
Confounders
Patrick White
Running Dogs
Horrible, Horrible People
Kitchen-Table Candour
Gas!
Embracing the Inner Bunny
Disappeared
‘Disquiet’ by Julia Leigh
‘Poe: A Life Cut Short’ by Peter Ackroyd
Jackey Jackey & the Yadhaykenu
Ross Wilson
Sandra Hogan
Andrew Elder
April 2008
March 2008, No. 32
March 2008 in brief
Comment
The Other Teresa Brennan
Free House
Opportunity
Sorry Business
Packed It In
Heath Ledger, 1979–2008
Train I Ride
Cooking Brains
Bowled Again …
Improvisations
‘Skins’, Season 1, SBS
‘The Sleepers Almanac No. 4’ edited by Zoe Dattner & Louise Swinn
John Pilger & Martha Gellhorn
Mary Nixon
Robert Menzies
Carolyn van Langenberg
March 2008
February 2008, No. 31
February 2008 in brief
Comment
Monkey Business
Mane Attraction
The Perfectly Bad Sentence
Ivy League
Green Christine
Australia
Unforgiven
Fugitive Days
Eye Witness
Northern Light
Before Little England
Sunshine On My Brain
‘Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005’ by Robert Hass
Johnny O’Keefe & Jack Benny
Max Bonnell
Roger Davis
Jim Hart
Raphael Ajzensztat
February 2008
December 2007 - January 2008, No. 30
December 2007 - January 2008 in brief
Comment
Dropping the Ball
Society of Birds
The Sense of Danger
What a Pratt
Buyer’s Market
Dogs of War
New Teeth for Aunty
Mission Drift
Toots's Kismet
Let the Bird Sing, Let the Bird Fly
Sixty of the Best
Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2007-08
Wunderbar
Reigning Bull
Confession & Hits (Hits & Confession)
The Usual
Genealogy
‘How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read’ by Pierre Bayard
Kylie Minogue & Michael Hutchence
December 2007 - January 2008
November 2007, No. 29
November 2007 in brief
Comment
Detainee DON 94
Lazarus Taxa
Checkmate
All Bogans Here
Getting Elected
The Principle of Necessity
Lies that Tell the Truth
Eco-Worriers
Kill Your Idol
Familiar Compound Ghosts
An Afternoon at Rough Trade
‘Mini Shots’ 1–9 by various authors
‘Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird’ by Andrew D Blechman
Redmond Barry & Edward Kelly
November 2007
October 2007, No. 28
October 2007 in brief
Comment
Written in the Body
The Flatbed Scanner of Democracy
Caveat Emptor
Backing the Truck Up
Le Parti, C'est Moi
The Collector
The Way of Horse
Low-Flying Aircraft
A Desert Inside
Politics, Writing, Love
A Righteous Certainty
‘The Door’ by Margaret Atwood
‘The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book’ by Sherman Young
Billy Hughes & Woodrow Wilson
Roger Sandall
Lois Roberts
October 2007
September 2007, No. 27
September 2007 in brief
Comment
Ticked Off
Full House
El Pollo Loco
The Other End of Town
It's Bennelong Time
Open All Hours
Like Love in a Marriage
A Masochistic Scalpel
Ho-Diddly-Hum
Let a Thousand Weeds Bloom
Tales from Pig City
‘Linda Marrinon: Let Her Try’ by Chris McAuliffe
'No One Belongs Here More Than You' by Miranda July
HMAS Melbourne & HMAS Voyager
Ken Nielsen
Steven Lang
Mark Allerton
Roger Davies
September 2007
August 2007, No. 26
August 2007 in brief
Comment
Throwing the Book
Trunk Call
The Optimist
Live Long and Prosper
Timor's Future
Pearson’s Gamble, Stanner’s Dream
A Husk of Meaning
Faith Healing
Ein Schwindel!
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Velvet Shackles of a Reputation
The Nymph Calypso
Embers Re-Flamed
Arthur Calwell & Peter Kocan
David Conolly
Patrick McCauley
Lyn Bray
August 2007
July 2007, No. 25
July 2007 in brief
Comment
Waterworld
I Got Nothin’ for You
The Big Cheese
Veritable Listeria
Australian Exceptionalism
A Letter to the Prime Minister from Death Row
Who’s Afraid of Macquarie Bank?
Political Courage
Pop Producer in B-Grade Movie Actress Murder Trial
The View from the Pavilions
Mind-Bottling
A Natural Competitive Advantage
'Caravan Story' By Wayne Macauley
'Show Court 3' by Louise Paramor, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 20 April
Rose Lacson & Langley George Hancock
July 2007
June 2007, No. 24
June 2007 in brief
Editor's Note
Comment
Waterfront Blues
Crocodile Fears
Stars in Their Eyes
War of Words
Wendi Deng Murdoch
Shute the Messenger
The Lost Enchanted World
Letter to a Young Friend on God and the Question of a Good Lunch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Pianos?
Australian Beauty
Daisy Bates & Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant
Philip Kiely
June 2007
May 2007, No. 23
May 2007 in brief
Comment
The Beast of Beethoven
Out of Africa
Storm Spotters
Bugging Out
Out of Control
Only Connect
From Frogmore, Victoria
Too Big for the Bathroom Shelf
He Would Have Disappeared Years Ago
Bryan Looks Back
Headlock
‘Australian Impressionism’, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
‘The Cleft’ By Doris Lessing
Harry Chauvel & TE Lawrence
Matthew Aston
Senator Eric Abetz
Jani Baker
Jenny Coman
Mark Poynter
Nick Haddow
May 2007
April 2007, No. 22
April 2007 in brief
Comment
Kuru Awareness Week
Not in Translation
The Real World
The Lone Ranger
A Death in the Harbour
As You Like It
Lost in the Woods
Extravagant Stillness
No Wedding and a Funeral
Resisting the Tide
'Bobby'
Robert Menzies & Winston Churchill
Roger Pole
April 2007
March 2007, No. 21
March 2007 in brief
Comment
The Human Zoo
Off the Rails
Saying Famous Things
Being There
Winter in Afghanistan
Read All About It
The Host with the Most
Love Goes to a Building on Fire
A Law That Cannot Be Enforced
Esperance & Skylab
Paul Arnott
Michael Bourchier
David Harrison
Andrew P Samuel
Jeremy Salt
March 2007
February 2007, No. 20
February 2007 in brief
Comment
Lenny Beadell, Road Artist
Many Me
What Lindy Did Next
Writer Gets Leg Up
A Turkish Tale: Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
Take Me to the River
Corporatising Culture
America's Australia
A West Side Story
Who’s Your Mummy?
A Change is Gonna Come
The War Not Thought
‘The Museum of Doubt’ By James Meek
Robyn Davidson & Bruce Chatwin
February 2007
December 2006 - January 2007, No. 19
December 2006 - January 2007 in brief
Comment
Kate and the Whale
Happiness Writes White
Contra Mundum
Jumblats Pty Ltd
The Usual Suspects
Love Me Tender?
Media Circus
The Margins of Our Attention
Haranguing the nation
A Thinking Read
The Kindness of Strangers
A Story of Spin
Cooking with Love
Some Things We Don’t Yet Know
'Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005'
Donald Bradman & Boris Karloff
Josh Bolot
John Heesh
Liz Ryan
Mark Dingle
David Christie
Glen St J Barclay
Lloyd Swanton
December 2006 - January 2007
November 2006, No. 18
November 2006 in brief
For the Record
Park Life
Walk the Line
Comment
Time’s Arrow
Who Let the Dogs Out?
Howard’s Brutopia
British Rules
An Uncommon Diplomacy
Heroes (Just for One Day)
Letters in the Sand
Resistible
‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James
Lionel Rose & Elvis Presley
Theo Giantsos
November 2006
October 2006, No. 17
October 2006 in brief
Keeping Mum
Port Vila For Sale
Hopper’s Crossing
Fierce Creatures
Comment
Beyond the Cringe
Faith in Politics
The Defence of David Hicks
Awaken the Gods
The First XI
Modern Times and Times Before That
Grotesque: After the Grand
‘The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis’ By Jacques Lacan, trans. Russell Grigg
‘Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications’ By John Kinsella
Thomas Blamey & Douglas MacArthur
Rev. Rowan Gill
Rev. Samuel John Wolff
Don Stokes
Lois Randall
October 2006
September 2006, No. 16
September 2006 in brief
Comment
The Fencing Lesson
The Ghost Gum of Garden City
John White’s Table
Roadkill
There’s Something About Mary
Cruising
I Accuse
The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion
The Contours of the Everyday
Everyone’s Battleground
Interrogation Dances
'Tuvalu' By Andrew O’Connor
‘2.37’ Directed by Murali K Thalluri
‘Big Brother’ Channel Ten
Peter Lalor & Raffaello Carboni
Chris McGrath
Caro Toledo
September 2006
August 2006, No. 15
August 2006 in brief
Comment
A Word from Deakin
The View from the Bridge
Sam I Am
Jacques’ Park
Beloved Companheiros
Yes, Virginia, there is a Clash of Civilisations
Big Sushi
The Optimism of People Standing on the Edge of the Grave
Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty
The Rules of Engagement
God Save His Soul
Rembrandt 1606–1669: From the Prints and Drawings Collection
David Combe & Valery Ivanov
Yvette Poshoglian
John Collins
Bruce Haigh
August 2006
July 2006, No. 14
July 2006 in brief
Comment
Tickets on Ourselves
Gods of War and Rain
Bogin, Hopit
The Myth of Ethical Investment
No Closed Shops, No Leg-ups, No Favours
Our Future Thinkers
A True Hipster
We’re All Globile Now
The Dying of the Light
Every Which Way But Forward
'The Ethics of What We Eat' by Peter Singer & Jim Mason
'FIFA World Cup' SBS Television
Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise
Robert Sessions
David Flint
July 2006
June 2006, No. 13
June 2006 in brief
Comment
Consider the Lily
The Greater Glory
Memento Mori
A Nuclear El Dorado
The Outcast of Camp Echo
What About Me?
Beattie’s Babylon
The Continuing Insult to the Language
Windows is Shutting Down
Beautiful Losers
Folded Brains, Squashed Ambitions
For the Love of Goat
'SET' ABC TV
Gough Whitlam & Zhou Enlai
Roger Patterson
Hugh O'Keefe
Georgia Blomberg
Frank Smith
June 2006
May 2006, No. 12
May 2006 in brief
Comment
When the Wind Blows
The War on Drugs
More Than a Little Bit Wrong
The Alphabet Game
The Nelson Touch
Cut!
Who's for Breakfast, Mr Jones?
A New Historical Landscape?
Laboratory Conditions
The First Woman
Turn Around You Weren’t Invited
'2006 Contemporary Commonwealth' at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia; Australian Centre for the Moving Image
'Ludmila’s Broken English' by DBC Pierre
Margaret Fulton & Elizabeth David
Nick Vasey
Barry Carozzi
May 2006
April 2006, No. 11
April 2006 in brief
Comment
Winning Slowly
Crying Games
Jefferson Country Dreaming
Auditory Hallucinations
Truth, Death & Diplomacy in East Timor
The Middle-Class Steeplechase
The Outsider
I Advance Masked
Truth, Lies, Madness
'Flight and Here Lies Love' at the Adelaide Festival of Arts
The Horror Inside
The Exford Dregs
'The Resurrectionist' by James Bradley
Mercedes Australian Fashion Week
Malcolm Turnbull & Conrad Black
April 2006
March 2006, No. 10
March 2006 in brief
Comment
The Joy of Sport
Highway Robbery
A Short History of Pyromania
Little America
The Tall Man
The Narcissist and The Psychopath
The Multiple Lives of a Muse
Worms Don't Dance
Ismail Kadare’s The Successor
'Voyage and Landfall: The Art of Jan Senbergs' by Patrick McCaughey
Television programming
Malcolm Fraser & Galarrwuy Yunupingu
March 2006
February 2006, No. 9
February 2006 in brief
Comment
A Twitch in Time
Sexyland
Tell Them I Said Something
Some Velvet Mourning
Infomation Idol
Crouching Tiger
The Man in Black
Welcome to the New Neil
Dating Longing
The Sea
'The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People' by George Seddon
'Family Wanted: Adoption Stories' edited by Sara Holloway
Errol Flynn & Fidel Castro
February 2006
December 2005 - January 2006, No. 8
December 2005 - January 2006 in brief
Comment
Fumigation in London & Amsterdam
Why Drug Dealers Vote Liberal
Wide Open Road
Man with the Pearl-White Cord
Enough Already!
Mr. Huge
How Many Sleeps?
The 2005 Chutzpah Awards
Lilypad of the Arafura
Feeling Frisky
Together Apart
Betrayals of Faith
The Dog Days of Ray
Show Me the Horror
Nihilistic Ear-worms
'The Ballad of Desmond Kale' by Roger McDonald
'Vulture'; 'Sunday Arts'; 'The Movie Show' on ABC-TV
Nellie Melba & Enrico Caruso
December 2005 - January 2006
November 2005, No. 7
November 2005 in brief
Comment
Uncle Malcolm
The Price of Noodles
Game Dame in a Doona
Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc
2024
Enrolment Daze
Man Without a Name
The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman
Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)
Queen Emily of the High Cs
The Great Unspooler. Romeo meets Juliet in 'Kashmir'
Mission Unthinkable
John Howard in Toytown
'Lunar Park' by Bret Easton Ellis
'Two Lives' by Vikram Seth
George Johnston & Leonard Cohen
November 2005
October 2005, No. 6
October 2005 in brief
Comment
Evolution Baby
Sundays in Paradise
The Dishwasher Unstacker
The People Vs Woolworths
Biff goes Bang
Queensland. What is It?
The Miracles of Guus
Jet Lag
Hit Me
Soft Touch
Be Afraid
Big Hitter, Huge Heart
Sunshine State
'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith
'A Current Affair' on Channel Nine / 'Today Tonight' on Channel Seven
October 2005
September 2005, No. 5
September 2005 in brief
Comment
She is Somewhere
This is Your Afterlife
Beach Boy
Murder at Pioneer Cemetery
The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau
Moving Experience
Trouble on the Night Shift
Normie's Father
The Interpreter - If alive, will play
Swingeing Pom
Love Story. A vision of a world where adults and children are equals
The Beautiful & the Damned Clunky
'Honeycomb' by Frank Black
'Hoi Polloi' by Craig Sherborne
'In My Skin' by Kate Holden
September 2005
August 2005, No. 4
August 2005 in brief
Comment
Sarah Has an Interview
Waking Up with Mr Jones
Aminata Keeps Running
"No Looking with the Hands"
Deserve's Got Nothing to Do With It
Drought Essay: There's Mud in Manangatang
Drought Essay: Recognising the Derision as Fear
Drought Essay: Goulburn, NSW
Drought Essay: Cambrai, South Australia
Drought Essay: Orange, NSW
Drought Essay: A Levitation of Land
No Flowers
The True Daughter
A Dandy Comes a Cropper
One in the Box. Twelve exposed men (and women)
The Vanishing. It wasn't the time, but he was the leader Labor had to have
Heat & Fright. A quiet weekend in Adelaide
Red Rage in the Brambles
Whiteboards and Orangemen
'Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel
'The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story' by John Harms
August 2005
July 2005, No. 3
July 2005 in brief
Comment
Street Talk
Board Shorts on Sunday
The Doc, The Vet, The Matrons
Curse of the Dimdims
Murdoch's War
Fields of Dreams
From BoHo to PoHo
The Intervention
"There Are No Limits, Love"
A Sort of Homecoming. Familiar strands in an unfamiliar land
Renegade at the Lecturn
Fragments of a Swooping Mind. Raw tissue, ragged editing
Twist & Whisper
'Mao: The Unknown Story' by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
'Road Story' by Julienne Van Loon
'Albrecht Dürer: Master of the Renaissance' NGV International
July 2005
June 2005, No. 2
June 2005 in brief
Comment
Chilli Boo in Biker Boots
Punishing Lauren
Conversation with Mrs Nitschke
Stop the Pigeons
Young Libs in the Chocolate Factory
"Oh My God. He's Done it Again"
Over Here, Over Fed, Over-Funded
Dead Disturbing. A bloodthirsty tale that plays with the fire of anti-semitism
Blind Date
Brown Skin Black Hearts. Two trail-spotting postcards from two different Australias
Boy's in a Hood
No Screaming
Day of the Skinny Insect. Ballads, blues, babes and a man still expressing himself
'Big Brother' Channel Ten
'Selling Sickness' by Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels
'Birds of Australia's Top End' by Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
June 2005
May 2005, No. 1
May 2005 in brief
Comment
From Nation To Now
Freedom
Scrumming It
Hardships of the Desert
Money
So Happy We Could Scream
Fear & Loathing at the ABC
Run and Hide
Wild Dog
The ExFactor
Explaining the Unexplained
Large Splendid Empty Rooms
Getting Human
Delirium in the Temple
'3 Decades of Photography by Bill Henson', National Gallery of Victoria
'Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phil Krakouer' by Sean Gorman
May 2005
Site Highlights
Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
Divided We Fall
The Beat Goes On
Angry Boys
Hot This Week
Divided We Fall
Big data: What's Happening To Information About You?
The Beat Goes On
Recommended
The Other Biography
The Global Financial Crisis
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