Australian politics, society & culture

The Monthly, May 2013, No. 89

In This Issue

May 2013 in brief

May 2013 Editor’s Note

by John van Tiggelen

The Nation Reviewed

It’s only super till you die

by Judith Brett

On the road to end poverty

by Andrew McMillen

Blazing fences after bushfire

by Lisa Clausen

Ayce names in the AFL

by Peter Cronin

The Monthly Essays

Kevin Rudd’s unrelenting campaign to regain power

The Aurukun blues of Peter Sutton

by Catherine Ford

DSM-5 and the mental illness make-over

Death in Amsterdam

by Margaretta Pos

Arts & Letters

Hashtag feminism

by Robyn Annear

by James Button

The Profumo Affair, 50 years on

by Frank Bongiorno

Songs’ ‘Malabar’ review

by Robert Forster

‘The Hunt’ and ‘Spring Breakers’ film review

‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent

by Alexandra Coghlan

Bruce Springsteen Live in Melbourne

by Mark Seymour

‘The Secret River’

by Henry Reynolds

Encounters

Annette Kellerman & Esther Williams

by Shane Maloney

Correspondence

miscellaneous

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