Spendathon or spinathon?
With an election looming, the Coalition seeks a political recovery
December 2017 – January 2018
The Nation Reviewed
Straight outta Narrandera
Victoria Lee takes on the Victoria’s Secret runway
The era of Xi Jinping
On the China Dream and the guiding ideology of Xi Jinping
Mind over meta: ‘No One Is Talking About This’
The debut novel from the extremely online Patricia Lockwood considers how the virtual invades the real
How to lose her voice
On testimonial injustice and the ways women are silenced
Arresting time
Gerhard Richter’s GOMA exhibition finds beauty in banality, meaning in the arbitrary
Home truths
Ah Gong and Ah Mah move into a culturally diverse aged-care facility
The ringmaster steps into the spotlight
Michael Gracey makes his directorial debut with the Hugh Jackman–starring ‘The Greatest Showman’
The new Grotesque
How the Monthly changed its typeface
A load of abalone
The trial of Keith Nye highlights how fisheries laws unfairly target Indigenous people
Fish out of mortar
Saving Canowindra’s ancient fish fossils
Plight of the platypus
Extreme weather events are affecting this monotreme in unforeseen ways
Green house effect
Joost Bakker’s vision for sustainable housing is taking rootThe era of Xi Jinping
On the China Dream and the guiding ideology of Xi Jinping
Vice grip: ‘The Virtues’
Shane Meadows’ astonishing series stems from a late reckoning with his own childhood abuse
Body language: ‘The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen’
Echoing folktales and fables, Krissy Kneen’s memoir contemplates the body’s visceral knowledge of inherited trauma
Reality is irreversible
The systems game and the need for global regime change
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