Current Issue The Politics Podcasts
Search Subscribe

August 2013

August 2013

Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon

August 2013 eBook

Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon

Federal politics

On the road with Julia Gillard

By Chloe Hooper

Sketches of a prime minister in her final months

History

Wilfred Burchett and the KGB

By Robert Manne

The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB

Theatre

Tim Minchin plays it straight

By Jo Lennan

The musical funnyman returns home

The Nation Reviewed

Federal politics

In praise of Tony Windsor

By Don Watson

Fan mail for the former MP

Federal politics

Changing prime ministers

By Judith Brett

What Kevin Rudd could learn from Julia Gillard about leadership

Federal politics

Fracking and food security

By Amanda Lohrey

The Greens chase the farming vote

International politics

Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore

By André Dao

For the city-state’s academics, freedom of speech is a sensitive subject

Sport

Our septuagenarian cricketers

By Ashley Hay

It’s never too late to wear the baggy green

Vox

Arts & Letters

Books

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’

By James Button

The Norwegian author delivers autobiography as Scandi noir

Books

Books on the future of the ALP

By John McTernan

It’s time to read about the “true believers”

Music

Iggy Azalea and hip-hop’s bikini wasteland

By Marieke Hardy

Can the Australian-born rapper shake off the stereotypes?

Film & Television

‘Stories We Tell’, ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Upstream Colour’

By Luke Davies

New films from Sarah Polley, Noah Baumbach and Shane Carruth

Noted

Encounters

Cartoon

Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
August 2013

The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media.

For subscription enquiries, call 1800 077 514 or email [email protected]

For editorial enquiries, email [email protected]

© 2022 The Monthly. All rights reserved.