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The Monthly, March 2010, No. 54

In This Issue

March 2010 in brief

The Nation Reviewed

Comment • Robert Manne
The Tree People

• Arnold Zable
Water Gods

• Anna Funder
Good Neighbours

• Alan Saunders
Ghost Writers

• Gail Bell
Close at Hand

• Kate Rossmanith

The Monthly Essays

Mandy Sayer

The Wild Frontier

The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads

Margaret Simons

Dangerous Precedent

The Melbourne Model

Louis Nowra

The Better Self?

Germaine Greer and 'The Female Eunuch'

Arts & Letters

Blankett Slate • Clare Press
Divine Comedy

• Peter Conrad
Progressively Liberal

• Tim Soutphommasane
Distant Sounds

• Robert Forster
Through a Glass Brightly

• Luke Davies
'Point Omega' by Don DeLillo

• Sebastian Smee
'Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry' by Leanne Shapton

• Michelle de Kretser

Encounters

600 Million Rabbits & Myxomatosis

• 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

Neuroplasticity and the 'use it or lose it' brain. Michael Valenzuela

Mind and Its Potential

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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