December 2013 - January 2014
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Some thoughts about class in Australia
The unlikely collaboration of Paddy Bedford and Tony Oliver
Big statues, high swings and a ‘Sound of Music’ sing-along
Pianos of small-town Queensland
A tour of instruments and their owners
A dip into childhood
To Holland and back with van Gogh
In search of home
A story
The Nation Reviewed
We don’t want to believe in climate change
Fire, climate and denial
Rewriting the Gillard years
How I learnt to love Tony Abbott
A bromance for the ages
Miley Cyrus, eat your heart out
Indonesia’s dangdut music puts Western pop to shame
The Shadow King reimagines Shakespeare's tragedy
How Cai Guo-Qiang turned a tree into a work of art
‘Falling Back to Earth’ at Brisbane’s QAGOMA
Memories of a friend and mentor
VOX
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Human encounters with the Great Barrier Reef
Iain McCalman’s ‘The Reef: A passionate history’
‘The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Vol. 2: 1923–1925’
A portrait of Papa as a young man
The art of children’s literature
What makes a picture book a classic?
‘Australia’ at the Royal Academy, London
A limited survey of Australian art
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
Reinventing an Aussie icon
‘Modern Love: Fashion visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA’
At the Bendigo Art Gallery
From ‘Le Freak’ to ‘Get Lucky’
Jonathan Teplitzky’s ‘The Railway Man’
Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman on the Burma Railway
Noted
Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ Little, Brown; $32.99
Bill Garner’s ‘Born in a Tent’ NewSouth Books; $39.99
Jung Chang’s ‘Empress Dowager Cixi’ Jonathan Cape; $32.95
