July 2013
Magazine
The Nation Reviewed
How the National Security Agency is undermining privacy and sovereignty
Inside Julian Assange’s high-tech lair
An interview with the WikiLeaks Party Senate candidate
A day in a drug treatment centre
The iconic Australian brand has a new co-owner
After midnight with ‘Psychic TV’
Making contact with the other side
The Monthly Essays
What would an Abbott government look like?
The many careers of Twiggy Forrest
What is the mining mogul’s higher calling?
The death of Fairfax and the end of newspapers
Where is the journalism we need going to come from now?
Sam Dastyari tries to fix the ALP
Is the general of NSW Labor serious about reform?
Vox
You don’t want to let your 85-year-old Hungarian best friend down on a trip to church
Arts & Letters
Alex Gibney’s ‘We Steal Secrets: the Story of WikiLeaks’
This documentary’s sympathies are not with Julian Assange
Ellen Willis’s ‘Out of the Vinyl Deeps’
The critic’s collected essays offer a distinctly New York perspective
John Newton’s ‘A Savage History: Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans’
An account of commercial whaling’s ignoble past
The unlikely resurrection of ‘Arrested Development’
The deliberately weird comedy series makes a comeback
Noted
‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ by Neil Gaiman Headline; $27.99
‘Modern Vampires of the City’ by Vampire Weekend XL / Remote Control
