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The Monthly, November 2008, No. 40

In This Issue

November 2008 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

Comment • Don Watson
Ursa Major • Gideon Haigh
Following Menzies • John Hirst
Hair Care • Robert Forster

The Monthly Essays

Robert Manne

What is Rudd’s Agenda?

Robyn Davidson

A New Desert

Trekking in the Simpson

Malcolm Knox

Everything & More

The Work of David Foster Wallace

Arts & Letters

Flappers & Snappers • Clare Press
The Conflict Business • Peter Hartcher
Unsettled • Sebastian Smee
High Wire Acts • Luke Davies
What Might Have Been

• Christina Thompson
'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas • Mary Ellen Jordan

Encounters

Thea Proctor & Margaret Preston • Shane Maloney

Recently forwarded | The Monthly

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

Howard’s Brutopia

The battle of ideas in Australian politics

Kevin Rudd

Recently forwarded | SlowTV

J.M. Coetzee on fundamentalism, curiosity and Patrick Allington's Figurehead

Black Inc.

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’...

Random reading

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Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc

John Harms

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