April 2021
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
New revelations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
Hope is running dry in the Murray–Darling Basin
The Nation Reviewed
Criminal law is not the only legal avenue to consider Christian Porter’s accountability and his future
Extreme weather events are affecting this monotreme in unforeseen ways
Joost Bakker’s vision for sustainable housing is taking root
Arts & Letters
The death of Yokununna: ‘Return to Uluru’
Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident
The lightness of unbearable being: ‘Double Blind’
Edward St Aubyn tackles familiar themes – desire, drug use, psychoanalysis – via a fresh suite of characters
Amorality tale: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Told from an unexpected perspective, Shaka King’s film is one of the best recent-historical dramas
Girls don’t cry: Arlo Parks and Phoebe Bridgers
Two young musicians spark the old double standard of judging female artists who demonstrate their pain
Noted
‘On the Line’ by Joseph Ponthus Poetry is found in the processing plants of Brittany
‘Clarice Beckett: The Present Moment’ This AGSA exhibition goes a long way to redress an Australian artist’s meagre reputation
Tasmania’s toxic secret The rotting underbelly of the salmon industry. Essay by Richard Flanagan. Documentary by Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch.
