July 2015
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Joe Hockey and the myth of Coalition economic management
The children left behind by Australian sex tourists in the Philippines
Too many kangaroos loose in Canberra
The Nation Reviewed
Citizenship and its discontents
Talk of stripping citizenship is just one example of Tony Abbott’s alarmist rhetoric
Favours and foreign affairs: Joko Widodo’s first year as Indonesian president
Meet the Melburnians keeping Esperanto alive
What’s next for the entrepreneurial Josh Lefers?
VOX
The darkness in every one of us
The author of ‘This House of Grief’ and ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’ on writing about darkness
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Power and resistance at the 56th Venice Biennale
The literary comic novel and Steve Toltz’s ‘Quicksand’
Musicians on film in Asif Kapadia’s ‘Amy’, Bill Pohlad’s ‘Love & Mercy’ and Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Eden’
Noted
‘The Seven Good Years’ by Etgar Keret Scribe; $27.99
‘Forever Young’ by Steven Carroll HarperCollins; $29.99
