April 2018
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Our corrective services struggle to cope with the mental health requirements of inmates
Nuclear brinkmanship and the doomsday scenario
The risk posed by the global weapons complex is much worse than you know
The co-founder of GetUp! might be the most influential Australian in the world
The Nation Reviewed
A change in our head of state won’t change everything, and other lessons for the next push
The republic is an Aboriginal issue
Recognition must be at the heart of constitutional reform
Could a computer mark a NAPLAN essay?
If student assessment is automated, what might it miss?
A local tour guide proves there is still plenty of life in the Cross
Vox
Arts & Letters
Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’
Reality flexes at the edges of Dovey’s second novel
Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Death of Stalin’
This Soviet satire pushes comedy’s tragedy-plus-time formula to the limit
The Scottish group’s third album proves they don’t sound like anyone else
Noted
Tim Winton’s ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ One of Australia’s most acclaimed novelists offers a painful and beautiful story of redemption
Zadie Smith’s ‘Feel Free’ In this collection of essays, Smith shines when she’s addressing the personal
