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The Monthly, August 2009, No. 48
In This Issue
August 2009 in brief
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admin
The Nation Reviewed
Comment
by
Robert Manne
Comment
by
Waleed Aly
The MCG and the Mango Tree
by
Tanveer Ahmed
Beat Up
by
Kate Holden
City Lights
by
Alan Saunders
Croakers
by
Gail Bell
Cafe Clairvoyants
by
Robyn Annear
The Monthly Essays
Looking West
by
John Birmingham
The Good Son
by
Peter Conrad
A Proper Wedding
by
Amanda Lohrey
Arts & Letters
Into the Shadowed Heart
by
Pico Iyer
Setting Herself Apart
by
Robert Forster
Democratic Hubris
by
Tim Soutphommasane
Cover Story
by
Luke Davies
Waste-Makers
by
Juliana Engberg
Genesis
by
Alan Atkinson
'Zeitoun' by Dave Eggers
by
Geordie Williamson
'Tom Is Dead' by Marie Darrieussecq
by
Jacqueline Dutton
Encounters
Norman Gunston & Frank Zappa
by
Shane Maloney
Correspondence
Cover Girls
by
admin
Mistaken Heart
by
admin
Roos & Boomers
by
admin
Not So Gay
by
admin
Corporate ‘Personhood’
by
admin
miscellaneous
August 2009
by
admin
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