August 2019
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
How evangelical footballer Israel Folau lit a fire under the culture wars
How did a man with such right-wing beliefs become Labor Party leader, and what is he cooking up now?
Dwindling stocks of Australian sperm have fertility clinics looking overseas and couples looking online
The Nation Reviewed
The terrible truth of climate change
The latest science is alarming, even for climate scientists
The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji
People are risking their lives for a selfie at Royal National Park’s Figure Eight Pools
The Australian woman on the shortlist to bid farewell to Earth forever
Vox
Arts & Letters
Swan song: Documenting the Adam Goodes saga
Two documentaries consider how racism ended the AFL star’s career
Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
Popcorn maker: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’
The tide may have turned against the director’s juvenile instincts and misogynist violence
Happy trails: Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’
The gay country-rapper exposes the complex play of identity, algorithms and capitalism
Noted
‘The White Girl’ by Tony Birch An emotionally eloquent novel about the necessary inheritance of strength in Indigenous women
‘Monet: Impression Sunrise’ at the National Gallery of Australia Impressionism’s namesake painting is at the heart of a masterful collection from the Musée Marmottan Monet
