August 2018
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The rest of the world is watching how we counter Beijing’s campaign of influence
The world’s oceans and all marine life are on the brink of total collapse
The Nation Reviewed
Australia cannot stay silent about Trump
Abbott, ANU and the decline of Western civilisation
How the Ramsay Centre’s degree stopped before it started
What happened to missing Northern Territory personality Paddy Moriarty?
Annie Whitlocke is helping to break the silence around grief and dying
VOX
The Science
Arts & Letters
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
The disappointment of The Carters’ ‘Everything Is Love’ and Kanye West’s ‘Ye’
New albums from Beyoncé and Jay-Z and Kanye West bare all yet share nothing
Noted
‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an engaging story of love and literary misadventure
Hannah Gadsby: ‘Nanette’ Believe the hype about the Tasmanian comedian’s Netflix special
