December 2017 – January 2018
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The Turnbull government has burned the bridge of bipartisanship
Conservatives pine for the days of unapologetic cultural supremacism. Do they really know what they’re getting themselves into?
Ready or not, China is here
When the politics got personal
Gillian Triggs’ culture shock
The Nation Reviewed
Australian politics is full of contradictions, double standards and gaping voids
Australia’s chief scientist talks energy alternatives and trying to elevate the narrative
Victoria Lee takes on the Victoria’s Secret runway
Ah Gong and Ah Mah move into a culturally diverse aged-care facility
How the Monthly changed its typeface
VOX
An unexpected stop prompts the question: Just what is the deal with the Dog on the Tuckerbox?
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Unfinished business: A short story
Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?
A poem
Gerhard Richter’s GOMA exhibition finds beauty in banality, meaning in the arbitrary
The ringmaster steps into the spotlight
Michael Gracey makes his directorial debut with the Hugh Jackman–starring ‘The Greatest Showman’
Histories personal and national inform Helen Johnson’s large-scale canvases
Björk moves towards renewal on ‘Utopia’
Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Call Me By Your Name’ is a passionate, positive tale of first love
Noted
Hyper Real National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, until 18 February 2018
‘City of Crows’ by Chris Womersley Picador; $32.99
In Light of Recent Events
By Oslo Davis
Dot-to-dot
Of all the things that should have annoyed the US president this year – White House infighting, a pesky media, hurricanes that devastated millions, hissy fits from nuclear-armed despots – what was the only thing that got on Donald J Trump’s goat?
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