October 2015
Magazine
The Nation Reviewed
Exit Abbott, enter Turnbull
The Australia Council’s history of challenges and challengers
Lee Lin Chin’s rise from SBS newsreader to queen of satire
Children’s lit heroes Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths step off the page and onto the stage
Brian & Karl make films that speak their own languages
The Monthly Essays
How long can Australia ride in the coal wagon?
A British author’s complicated relationship with the island continent
Has classical music become irrelevant?
VOX
Medicine
Arts & Letters
The femaleness of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel takes on ‘Macbeth’
Cold Chisel reconsidered
Corruption and collusion in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’
Noted
‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates Text; $27.99
‘The Heart Goes Last’ by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury; $32.99
‘Purity’ by Jonathan Franzen Fourth Estate; $32.99
