November 2020
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
On Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party
How liberalism’s blind spot let cancel culture bloom
Could the legacy of Australia’s worst bushfires on record be the end of native logging?
The Nation Reviewed
Universities are in trouble, and the government isn’t helping
Narrabri’s gas-fired liability
Locals fear coal-seam gas mining in the Pilliga will destroy the forest, the water and the tourism industry
Does the detection of phosphine gas point to life among Venus’s clouds?
The dissident Indonesian lawyer charged for tweeting about Papuan activism
Arts & Letters
Rebuilding a more egalitarian, altruistic and communitarian society without sacrificing individual liberties
The long goodbye: ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson deals with her father’s decline into dementia by “killing” him through various means
The last days of disco: ‘Róisín Machine’
Róisín Murphy’s latest album is unusually mature pop driven by restlessness
Noted
‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan The Booker Prize winner’s allegorical new novel about the permanence of loss
‘Kajillionaire’ directed by Miranda July A family of con artists are the American writer-director’s latest offbeat protagonists in a surreal but heartfelt film
