The Monthly, May 2008, No. 34

In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment FREE •  Robert Manne
Razor-Gang Blues •  Gideon Haigh
Hiraeth •  Toni Jordan
Organic Matter •  Robyn Davidson
Lies, Damned Lies •  Charles Firth
The Monthly Essays
Noel Pearson
Obama!  FREE 
What he must do to win
Craig Sherborne
Inside New Zealand’s social laboratory
Don Watson
A moral equivalent to Anzac Day
Arts & Letters
John Button, 1933–2008 FREE •  James Button
In the Giant Green Cathedral •  Malcolm Knox
The Uncorking •  Robert Forster
Committed •  Julian Cribb
Unbridled •  Luke Davies
‘The Story of Forgetting’ by Stefan Merrill Block •  Zora Simic
‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard •  Chris Womersley
Encounters
Sir Henry Parkes & Henry Lawson •  Shane Maloney