Culture
Chelmsford revisited
Thirty years on from the excoriating royal commission, two practitioners of deep sleep therapy seek redemption in a defamation case that again blames Scientologists for their downfall
September 2020
September 2020 eBook
Federal politics
In the face of the pandemic, Scott Morrison has failed to adjust his thinking, and wants to return to the way things used to be
International politics
Australia’s assumption that China will give up its Pacific rivalry with the US is dangerously misguided
Health
What chronic illness can teach us about the limits of the healthcare system during a global crisis
VOX
A visit to Ürümqi’s quieted streets and contested museums
When international ports close, what happens to those at sea?
Music
The trenches of Mount Druitt: OneFour
Australia’s most infamous hip-hop act is an all-Pasifika group born of Western Sydney’s violent postcode wars
Books
Attack on language: ‘Surviving Autocracy’ and ‘Twilight of Democracy’
Masha Gessen and Anne Applebaum sound alarms on how ‘post-truth’ public debate leaves us mute in the face of autocracy
Television
‘Cinematic’ television: ‘ZeroZeroZero’
Forget comparisons to cinema, TV is developing its own compelling aesthetic
Books
‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez
The late-life author of ‘The Friend’ delivers a chastening and discursive novel of mourning
Books
‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction
