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The Monthly, November 2007, No. 29

In This Issue

November 2007 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

Comment • Robert Manne
Detainee DON 94 • Linda Jaivin
Lazarus Taxa

• Ashley Hay
Checkmate • Leigh Sales
All Bogans Here • Anna Funder

The Monthly Essays

Michael Gawenda

Getting Elected

The Australian Labor Party & the American Democrats

Gideon Haigh

The Principle of Necessity

Justice Menhennitt & Australia’s Roe v Wade

Simon Leys

Lies that Tell the Truth

The paradox of art and creative writing

Arts & Letters

Eco-Worriers • Robyn Davidson
Kill Your Idol • Luke Davies
Familiar Compound Ghosts • Patrick McCaughey
An Afternoon at Rough Trade • Robert Forster
‘Mini Shots’ 1–9 by various authors

• Carlie Jennings
‘Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird’ by Andrew D Blechman • Sean Dooley

Encounters

Redmond Barry & Edward Kelly • 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

Nana Mouskouri & Frank Hardy

When the Grecian songbird Nana Mouskouri embarked on her first Australian tour, in 1976, she was greeted with rave reviews and the adulation of fans. Among the raven-haired nightingale's keenest admirers was a communist writer almost 20 years her senior.

Frank Hardy had been a public figure for decades. His roman à clef Power without Glory had created a publishing and legal sensation and become the must-see television series of the year. But the Dead Are Many had won him international plaudits, and his yarns about finagling dustmen and mug punters...

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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Les Murray

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