How to be a prime minister
The task ahead for Anthony Albanese in restoring the idea that governments should seek to make the country betterDecember 19, 2013
Monthly Wire
Best of 2013: Ten Great Long Reads
Ten highlights from a magnificent year of long-form magazine writing:
Royal bodies (Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books)
Thanksgiving in Mongolia (Ariel Levy, New Yorker)
Danse Macabre: A scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet (David Remnick, New Yorker)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Jahar's World (Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone)
Facebook feminism, like it or not (Susan Faludi, The Baffler)
Love in the Gardens (Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books)
For 40 years, this Russian family was cut off from all human contact, unaware of World War II (Mike Dash, Smithsonian)
Gangster bankers: Too big to jail (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)
Fat City (Karen Hitchcock, The Monthly)
The impossible refugee boat lift to Christmas Island (Luke Mogelson, New York Times)
Ghosts in the war machine
Does the military attract violent misanthropists, or are they forged in murky theatres of war?
A dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandal
App trap: ‘Chloe’
‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights
‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
