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The Monthly, June 2007, No. 24

In This Issue

June 2007 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

Editor's Note • Sally Warhaft
Comment • Clive Hamilton
Waterfront Blues • John Button
Crocodile Fears

• Kate Rossmanith
Stars in Their Eyes • Mungo MacCallum

The Monthly Essays

Eric Beecher

War of Words

The future of journalism as a public trust

Eric Ellis

Wendi Deng Murdoch

Gideon Haigh

Shute the Messenger

How the end of the world came to Melbourne

Arts & Letters

The Lost Enchanted World • Robert Manne
Letter to a Young Friend on God and the Question of a Good Lunch • Amanda Lohrey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Pianos? • Anna Goldsworthy
Australian Beauty • Luke Davies

Encounters

Daisy Bates & Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant • Shane Maloney

Recently forwarded | The Monthly

Mission Drift

A Report From Afghanistan

Chris Masters

Infomation Idol

How Google is Making Us Stupid

Gideon Haigh

Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova

Shane Maloney

Faith in Politics

Kevin Rudd

The Whirling Dervish

Tony Abbott

Louis Nowra

Recently forwarded | SlowTV

The origin of the universe and the arrow of time. Sean Carroll

University of Sydney

Historical Encounters

Alfred Deakin & John Bunyan

Alfred Deakin occupied many notable posts and earned several memorable sobriquets in his long and distinguished public career. Member for Ballarat, Minister for Public Works and Water Supply, Chief Secretary and Solicitor-General of Victoria, Executive Chairman of the Federation League, first Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Prime Minister three times. Affable Alfred, Father of Irrigation.

An omnivorous reader and assiduous writer, Deakin filled an endless stream of notebooks and diaries; subsisted for a time as a journalist; contributed ‘secret'...

Monthly books

'The Legacy' by Kirsten Tranter

'The Pregnant Widow' by Martin Amis

Liberal Fundamentalist

AC Grayling's 'Liberty in the Age of Terror'

The Sins of the Son

Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments'

Easy Rider

Frederick Seidel's 'Ooga-Booga and Poems: 1959-2009'

Monthly music

Obscured by Clouds

Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

Waleed Aly

Curtain Call

Joan Sutherland

Peter Conrad

Prepared

The ANAM Piano Festival

Anna Goldsworthy

Setting Herself Apart

Sarah Blasko's 'As Day Follows Night'

Robert Forster

The Pretendies

The art of the spoken interlude

Paul Kelly

Monthly film

Lost Boys

Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet' and John Hillcoat's 'The Road'

In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is about to embark on a six-year prison sentence for assaulting a cop. Polite and deferential, Malik is hard to read at first. The little we glean about his life is framed in terms of negatives: he has no contacts, no relatives; he didn’t grow up with his parents, but in juvenile centres. If he’s experiencing fear as he enters the chaos of the prison at Brécourt, he doesn’t show it. He’...

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