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The Monthly, December 2008 - January 2009, No. 41

In This Issue

December 2008 - January 2009 in brief ^FREE

The Nation Reviewed

Comment • Judith Brett
Panic & Censor • David Marr
The Ant & the Butterfly • John van Tiggelen
Ally of the Dolls • Alice Pung
The Black Polo • Charles Firth

The Monthly Essays

Don Watson

Once Upon a Time in America

Getting Elected in Zanesville, Ohio

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow

Gideon Haigh

What Drives Economic Optimism?

Hazel Rowley

Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre

Arts & Letters

Big Thoughts, Empire Burlesque • Luke Davies
Between a Muddle & a Mystery • Drusilla Modjeska
A Stockingful • Peter Craven
Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2008-09 ^FREE • Peter Craven
Slippin’ • Robert Forster
Southern Discomfort • Juliana Engberg
'From Little Things Big Things Grow' by Paul Kelly & Kev Carmody • Mungo MacCallum
'Vertigo: A Novella' by Amanda Lohrey • Meg Mundell
'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison • Chris Womersley

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Alfred Deakin & John Bunyan • Shane Maloney

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