Bender’s choice
Tasmanian salmon, from farm to court
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The Monthly — October 2017
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The intangible beauty of The Clientele’s ‘Music for the Age of Miracles’
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The art of the hustle in the Safdie Brothers’ ‘Good Time’
The lo-fi New Yorkers take on a Robert Pattinson–starring genre thriller
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Attempts to encourage censorship and deliberate amnesia seldom work
The Monthly — October 2017
The Nation Reviewed
What should we do with Captain Cook?
The pitfalls of memorialising historical figures
Reviving a century of Indigenous music through the Mission Songs Project
Take a walk through the TarraWarra Museum of Art’s International exhibition
Audio describers bring theatre to life for the vision impaired
Meet Australia’s creatures of the deep
The Monthly — October 2017
The Monthly Essays
Beautiful on the outside … the tragedy of Bennelong Point
‘Get Krack!n’s Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney are not pussyfooting around
Tasmanian salmon, from farm to court
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The Monthly — October 2017
VOX
The Darwin poet whose muse is a dialysis machine
The Monthly — October 2017
The Medicine
How is it possible for an emotion to be expressed in an eyeball?
The Monthly — October 2017
Arts & Letters
The ghost of creativity spurned
Richard Flanagan explores a different kind of darkness in ‘First Person’
Taylor Mac takes on ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music’
Stephin Merritt brings his ‘50 Song Memoir’ to the Melbourne Festival
Jennifer Egan’s dynamic new novel, ‘Manhattan Beach’, will reward all readers
A creative’s mea culpa? An allegory for environmental devastation? Either way, Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ is an exhausting film.
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