The Monthly, July 2008, No. 36

In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment FREE •  Guy Pearse
Old House •  Mungo MacCallum
Katharine’s Place •  Alice Pung
Trivial Pursuit •  Craig Sherborne
The Monthly Essays
John Birmingham
In the Dark?  FREE 
The Same Dirty Old Energy
Ashley Hay
Making Sense of the Flores Find
John Hirst
Convicts and national character
Nicolas Rothwell
The idea of the north
Arts & Letters
More Than Picong FREE •  Louis Nowra
Seeing the Light •  Robert Forster
Pipe Dreams •  Michael Cathcart
Stand & Deliver •  Luke Davies
‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings) •  Gideon Haigh
‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail •  Chris Middendorp
Encounters