Australian politics, society & culture

The Monthly, December 2009 - January 2010, No. 52

In This Issue

December 2009 - January 2010 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

by Alan Saunders

Dead, Wrapped in Cardboard

by Benjamin Law

by Amanda Lohrey

A Wild Colonial Boy

by John van Tiggelen

The Monthly Essays

by John Birmingham

From Mop Tops To Moustaches

by Robert Forster

Nowhere Near Hollywood

Arts & Letters

by Peter Conrad

Neon Statements

by Justin Clemens

by Peter Singer

Daytime Nightmares

by Robert Dessaix

by Malcolm Knox

‘The Anthologist’ by Nicholson Baker

by Michelle de Kretser

‘So This Is Life: Tales from a Country Childhood’ by Anne Manne

by Amanda Lohrey

Encounters

Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova

by Shane Maloney

Correspondence

Australian Television

Female Contributors

miscellaneous

December 2009 - January 2010

THE WHITE FLAG

For the first time in decades, Australia will go to an election with neither of the major parties offering tax cuts. In fact, both will take a new tax to the polls in the form of a levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme. Pre...

Woolwich attack: terror returns to Britain's streets "What they were witnessing was not a suburban road accident, but the most brutal murder imaginable, as two Al-Qaeda inspired Islamic terrorists hacked at their victim 'like...

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