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The Monthly, June 2009, No. 46

In This Issue

June 2009 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

Comment • Robert Manne
Cold Comfort

• Nick Bryant
Haiku Hikers • Linda Jaivin
Hollywood Ending • Leigh Sales

The Monthly Essays

John Birmingham

The Coming Storm

Out of Work in a Land of Plenty

Waleed Aly

Patriot Acts

Learning from America

Fiona Capp

In the Garden

Judith Wright & Nugget Coombs

Arts & Letters

Credo • Bill Henson
Goodbye to All That • Tim Flannery
Lost Women Found • Robert Forster
Two Stroke • Luke Davies
Here I Stand • Peter Sutton
"Reunion" by Andrea Goldsmith • Jo Case
"A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity" by Nicholas St • Alexandra de Blas

Encounters

Peter Finch & Vivien Leigh • Shane Maloney

Recently forwarded | The Monthly

Howard’s Brutopia

The battle of ideas in Australian politics

Kevin Rudd

The Wild Frontier

The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads

Mandy Sayer

Ebony

The Girl in the Room

Anne Manne

The Global Financial Crisis

Kevin Rudd

Liberal Fundamentalist

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

John Keane

Recently forwarded | SlowTV

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams

Melbourne Writers Festival

Historical Encounters

Malcolm Fraser & Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Both were princes in their own lands.

One was a scion of the squattocracy, the only son of a wealthy grazier and the grandson of a conservative politician, educated at Melbourne Grammar and Oxford University and sent to parliament at 25. Patrician in bearing and speech, he was now 48 and Prime Minister of Australia.

The other was one of the many children of Munggurawuy of the Gumatj clan of the Yolnu people of Yirkalla. Raised among his siblings, then sent to Bible college in Brisbane, he was skilled in...

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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