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The Muscovian Candidate?. Source
The Muscovian Candidate?
Donald Trump and Russia
Robert Manne
The art of biography. Image of Patrick White
The Monthly Essays

The art of biography

The author stays out of the picture, and other personal rules of writing
David Marr
Arts & Letters / Film

Married to the tribe

Vanuatu’s Yakel people make their screen debut in Bentley Dean and Martin Butler’s ‘Tanna’
Luke Davies
The Monthly Essays

Green fields and blue sky

Is Nick Cleary’s ambitious CLARA project the answer to Australia’s fast-rail question?
Paddy Manning
Vox

The insults of age

A one-woman assault on condescension
Helen Garner

The Centrelink summer

The government will be scorched unless it acts soon
Nick Feik

The 20 most-read Monthly articles of 2016

What captured the imagination of our readers this year?
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  1. The Muscovian Candidate?
    Donald Trump and Russia
    Robert Manne
    The Muscovian Candidate?. Source
  2. The Monthly Today
    It’s time to change our traditions
    Let’s celebrate Australia - but not on 26 January
    Sean Kelly
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  3. The Monthly Essays
    Rom Watangu
    An indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land
    Galarrwuy Yunupingu
    Rom Watangu. Galarrwuy Yunupingu
  4. The Nation Reviewed
    Sex and Secrets in Public Parks
    The Beat Goes On
    Sonya Hartnett
    Sex and Secrets in Public Parks. Illustration by Jeff Fisher
  5. The Monthly Essays
    The gambler
    At home with David Walsh
    Richard Flanagan
    The gambler. David Walsh

Politics

The national broadside
The Australian’s campaign against Gillian Triggs is another in a long line of crude culture-war offensives
Robert Manne
A pox on both your houses. Image of Pauline Hanson
The Monthly Essays
A pox on both your houses
How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?
Andrew Charlton and Lachlan Harris
Australia divided. Illustration
Comment
Australia divided
The electorate has fractured into three economic and cultural zones
George Megalogenis
Duterte’s dirty war. Prisoners in the holding cells at Tondo police station, Manila
The Monthly Essays
Duterte’s dirty war
A trip to the Philippines reveals the human cost of the war on drugs
Margaret Simons


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Society

Rhodes dollars. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Rhodes dollars
The Rhodes Scholarship is slowly embracing diversity
Zoë Morrison
Malcolm Turnbull: A brief lament. Illustration
Comment
Malcolm Turnbull: A brief lament
The climate-science champion of 2010 has morphed into the fossil-fuel supporter of 2016
Robert Manne
Looking for moles. Image of surveillance of David Combe
Arts & Letters / Books
Looking for moles
The third volume in ASIO’s official history confirms infiltration by Soviet intelligence
David McKnight
The hand of faith. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
The hand of faith
In 1980 a giant gold nugget changed the Hillier family’s fortunes
Lisa Clausen


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Culture

A new world for the making. Image of Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory by Georgia O’Keefe
Arts & Letters / Art

A new world for the making

‘O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism’ brings together three giants of modernism
Julie Ewington
A moveable feast. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed

A moveable feast

What does it take to transform the National Gallery of Australia into the Palace of Versailles?
Quentin Sprague
Through the dark glass. Still from Black Mirror
Arts & Letters / Television

Through the dark glass

Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ is ‘The Twilight Zone’ for our tech-obsessed times
Luke Davies
Arts & Letters / Books

The narrator

In Zadie Smith’s new novel ‘Swing Time’, identity is always under construction
Helen Elliott
Noted

‘Nude: Art from the Tate Collection’

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, until 5 February
Julie Ewington
Noted

‘A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women’ by Siri Hustvedt

Sceptre; $32.99
Kevin Rabalais
Arts & Letters / Poetry

Instructions for a lover

A poem
Sarah Holland-Batt
Arts & Letters / Poetry

Nostalgia

A poem
Sarah Holland-Batt
Arts & Letters / Music

Towards joy

Pop music is more than lyrics on a page
Anwen Crawford


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Environment

Feeding  the  beast. Image of the Condamine River on fire
The Monthly Essays
Feeding  the  beast
Billion-dollar burnouts keep emissions rising
Richard Denniss
An island ark. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
An island ark
A cat-detection team is doing important work on Dirk Hartog Island
Nicole Gill
Grave Barrier Reef. Coral bleaching at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, March 2016
The Monthly Essays
Grave Barrier Reef
The coral bleaching signals a defining environmental shift
Jo Chandler
Rupture in Tasmania. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Rupture in Tasmania
Solastalgia and the impact of the recent bushfires
Nicole Gill


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Economics

A game theory. James Lovatt
The Monthly Essays
A game theory
Lovatts Crosswords gave its profits to employees. What went wrong?
Richard Cooke
Bust  in  the  Pilbara. Image of mining workers flying from Perth
The Monthly Essays
Bust  in  the  Pilbara
A region returns to earth
Hamish McDonald
Crunch time. Image
The Monthly Essays
Crunch time
Australia’s car industry has met policy failure head-on
Richard Denniss
The revolting backbench. Illustration
Comment
The revolting backbench
Malcolm Turnbull’s greatest obstacle to tax reform is close to home
Richard Denniss


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