September 2014
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The brief life and quiet death of Tony Abbott’s love of liberty
In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language
What drives Edward Snowden, the world’s most wanted whistleblower?
The Nation Reviewed
The year of ruling dangerously
The Abbott government has achieved only chaos in its first year
Victorian Labor leader Daniel Andrews keeps his head down
Medieval records show that attitudes to suicide have changed little
In the rush online, newspapers have deleted yesterday, today and tomorrow
Sydney's CB radio scene is a battlefield
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’
‘The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece’ at Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
The everyman charm of Justin Timberlake
Taika Waititi’s ‘What We Do in the Shadows’
Noted
‘Optimism’ by Bob Brown Hardie Grant; $39.95
‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ by Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel) Random House; $35
‘Born Bad’ by James Boyce Black Inc.; $34.99
