February 2014
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Government or activism?
Inside the worlds of Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Nathan Tinkler
Why is Australia taking sides in the East China Sea?
The Nation Reviewed
How should we remember World War One?
Why climate change defeats our short-term thinking
On science, religion, politics and ideology
Five years after Black Saturday
How we fight fires now
It’s a new era for Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director
Presents, prayers and asylum seekers
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Margaret MacMillan’s ‘The War That Ended Peace’, Paul Ham’s ‘1914’ and David Reynolds’ ‘The Long Shadow’
‘Mapping Our World’ at the National Library of Australia
ASIO surveillance in ‘Persons of Interest’
Documentary series charts the history of Australia’s intelligence-gathering operations
Music videos: a personal history
From Saturday-morning ‘Rage’ to ACMI’s ‘Spectacle’ exhibition
‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ and ‘Nebraska’ film reviews
New work from directors Abdellatif Kechiche and Alexander Payne
Noted
Rebecca Mead’s ‘The Road to Middlemarch’ Text; $32.99
