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Voices from the state that has turned against Labor as a party of federal government
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Blame the Coalition, not the Greens, for Australia’s decade of climate dysfunction
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
Interrogating the interrogators: ‘The Report’
This tale of the investigation into CIA torture during the War on Terror places too much faith in government procedure
What really happened at Yuendumu?
The promised inquiries must answer the biggest questions raised by the police shooting of an Aboriginal man
You could drive a person crazy: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are at their career best in this bittersweet tale of divorce
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’
The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
The Monthly Essays
Voices from the state that has turned against Labor as a party of federal government
Anthony Albanese wants to be a Labor leader, not an Opposition leader
Bougainville’s independence vote is a historic moment for Papua New Guinea, and a reckoning for Australia
The Nation Reviewed
Labor and the Liberals have abandoned their old ideological contests as they battle to define the values of the new middle class
Successful compensation cases haven’t curbed the prevalence of unlawful strip-searches by NSW Police
Lumping dingoes in with “wild dogs” means the native animals are being deliberately culled
A former Russian athlete’s plan for Australia’s first commercial sub
Arts & Letters
Radical ambiguity: Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison
The essay collections ‘Trick Mirror’, ‘Coventry’ and ‘Make It Scream, Make It Burn’ offer doubt and paradoxical thinking in the face of algorithmic perfectionism
Late style: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’
Reuniting with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, the acclaimed director has delivered less of a Mob film than a morality play
The writer of ‘Took the Children Away’ delivers a memoir of his Stolen Generations childhood and an album of formative songs
Noted
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’ The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
