March 2014
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Behind the rhetoric of protesters and promoters
Robyn Davidson and Mia Wasikowska make ‘Tracks’
An epic desert trek finally reaches the screen
Jarrod Bleijie takes on the bikies
The rise of Queensland’s young attorney-general
Can senior citizens bridge the digital divide?
The Nation Reviewed
The conservative crusade against the ABC
Why do Andrew Bolt and company love to hate the national broadcaster?
Tony Abbott’s war on information
Why a good media strategy is no way to run a country
The ALP, the Libs, the Greens, the split
Son Chhay’s hopes for Cambodia
Co-operation or coup?
From Adelaide to Alice Springs with a train devotee
VOX
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Andrew Glikson’s ‘Evolution of the Atmosphere’, Elizabeth Kolbert’s ‘The Sixth Extinction’, Errol Fuller’s ‘Lost Animals’ and Clifford Frith’s ‘The Woodhen’
Hi-tech architecture in Adelaide
The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
Christian Boltanski’s chance at life
The French artist in Sydney
Laneway, Lorde and other disappointments
Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Rises’
The last film of a flight-obsessed genius
Noted
Robert Musil’s ‘The Confusions of Young Master Törless’ Trans. Christopher Moncrieff; Alma Classics; $19.99
Jane Rogoyska’s ‘Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa’ Jonathan Cape; $79.95
