December 2018 – January 2019
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Losing the plot: the American midterms
Caravan conspiracies, dead candidates and a miasma of acrimony … welcome to the 2018 US campaign trail
Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson
AFP officer Colin Winchester was gunned down 30 years ago, and yet another twist in the case only just played out
In Central Australia, the Anangu people and Western health professionals are working towards a common language
The Nation Reviewed
The Liberal Party: a rolling fiasco
The government’s suite of half-formed ideas work for no one
Western Australia’s World Heritage site isn’t as protected as you’d expect
Australia’s remote territory is agitating for autonomy
Meet the septuagenarian fronting a new generation of protesters
VOX
Work as a stripper wasn’t quite what this newcomer imagined
Revisiting the kids of Angeles City
Three years on, how are the Filipino children of Australian sex tourists faring?
Arts & Letters
Les Murray’s magisterial ‘Collected Poems’
How to approach a 736-page collection by Australia’s greatest poet?
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
Pawel Pawlikowski’s perfectly formed ‘Cold War’
Not a moment is wasted in what could be the Polish director’s masterpiece
Female fandom and Jessica Leski’s ‘I Used to be Normal’
They’ve been dismissed and patronised, but Beatlemaniacs, Directioners and other fangirls are very self-aware about their boy band ‘affliction’
Noted
‘Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales From Matisse to Malevich: a considered snapshot of adventurous Russian collecting
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen For their Netflix debut, the Coen brothers return to the Western
