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August 2013
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
On the road with Julia Gillard
Sketches of a prime minister in her final months
The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB
The musical funnyman returns home
The Nation Reviewed
Fan mail for the former MP
What Kevin Rudd could learn from Julia Gillard about leadership
Rudd’s comeback and Murdoch’s counterattack
The reaction to Rudd 2.0
The Greens chase the farming vote
Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore
For the city-state’s academics, freedom of speech is a sensitive subject
It’s never too late to wear the baggy green
Vox
Arts & Letters
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’
The Norwegian author delivers autobiography as Scandi noir
Books on the future of the ALP
It’s time to read about the “true believers”
Iggy Azalea and hip-hop’s bikini wasteland
Can the Australian-born rapper shake off the stereotypes?
‘Stories We Tell’, ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Upstream Colour’
New films from Sarah Polley, Noah Baumbach and Shane Carruth
Noted
‘The Night Guest’ by Fiona McFarlane Hamish Hamilton; $29.99
‘The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia’ by Solahudin Trans. Dave McRae; NewSouth Books; $49.99
