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The Muscovian Candidate?. Source
The Muscovian Candidate?
Donald Trump and Russia
Robert Manne
Climax isn’t the point. Image of Helen Tufts and Helena Born
Arts & Letters / Books

Climax isn’t the point

Emily Witt’s ‘Future Sex’ and Sheila Rowbotham’s ‘Rebel Crossings’ approach the concept of free love from different perspectives
Anwen Crawford
‘The Undoing Project’ by Michael Lewis. Cover of The Undoing Project
Noted

‘The Undoing Project’ by Michael Lewis

Allen Lane; $45
Michael Lucy
The Monthly Today

One Nation, two narratives

The notion that Pauline Hanson has matured since the 1990s is an orchestrated myth
Dominic Kelly
The Nation Reviewed

Not-church on time

The Weekly Service offers a different kind of communion
Sylvia Rowley
The Monthly Essays

The character business

What does the deluge of political biography and memoir say about politicians and readers?
Mark McKenna
Arts & Letters / Film

A German comedy?

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is one of the most misread movies of the year
Shane Danielsen

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  1. The Monthly Today
    The politics of distraction
    Taken for suckers, the media keeps throwing punches
    Elle Hardy
  2. The Muscovian Candidate?
    Donald Trump and Russia
    Robert Manne
    The Muscovian Candidate?. Source
  3. The Monthly Essays
    Power corrupts
    How network companies lined their pockets and drove electricity prices through the roof
    Jess Hill
    Power corrupts. Electricity workers in Brisbane
  4. The Monthly Today
    One Nation, two narratives
    The notion that Pauline Hanson has matured since the 1990s is an orchestrated myth
    Dominic Kelly
    One Nation, two narratives. Source

Politics

Old King Coal. Source
Old King Coal
The Turnbull government keeps looking to coal to solve the country’s energy issues
Mungo MacCallum
The heat is on
Who benefits from Malcolm Turnbull’s deal with Donald Trump?
Mungo MacCallum
Relying on Trump. Illustration
Comment
Relying on Trump
Australia needs to rethink its approach to regional security
Hugh White
A big dump. Illustration
Comment
A big dump
Why is the South Australian government so enthused about a nuclear waste dump?
Richard Denniss


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Society

This storied land. Image of the Pilbara, Western Australia
Arts & Letters / Books
This storied land
Mark McKenna’s ‘From the Edge’ tells four fascinating stories of Aboriginal and settler interaction through the history of place
Frank Bongiorno
The new black. Image of a restaurant
The Monthly Essays
The new black
The overworked, underpaid, cash-in-hand worker is becoming increasingly common
Ann Arnold
The new opium wars. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
The new opium wars
Australia’s poppy industry has been hit by the opioid addiction crisis
Hamish McDonald
Back from the dead. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Back from the dead
One dedicated bird watcher devoted years to the elusive night parrot
Anthony Ham


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Culture

‘Transit’ by Rachel Cusk. Cover of Transit
Noted

‘Transit’ by Rachel Cusk

Jonathan Cape; $32.99
Kevin Rabalais
Who’s the boss now?. Image of Bruce Springsteen
Arts & Letters / Music

Who’s the boss now?

Bruce Springsteen is the consummate live performer
Anwen Crawford
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 / Art

A new world for the making

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

A moveable feast

What does it take to transform the National Gallery of Australia into the Palace of Versailles?
Quentin Sprague
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


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Environment

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
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


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Economics

Arrested development. Image of James Packer
The Monthly Essays
Arrested development
James Packer has been down, but he’s not out
Richard Cooke
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


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