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The Museum of Modern Love
An extract from the Stella Prize–winning novel
Heather Rose
A race to the bottom on race. Source
The Monthly Today

A race to the bottom on race

Turnbull’s 457 visa announcement was not about jobs
Sean Kelly
Kendrick rising. Source

Kendrick rising

With his new album, ‘Damn’, Kendrick Lamar cements his status as the world’s reigning hip-hop artist
Anwen Crawford

A pointless passage to India

Turnbull’s trip to India produced very little except another PR boost for the Adani mine
Mungo MacCallum
Arts & Letters / Theatre

A necessary shift

The Asia TOPA festival is unique for its focus on contemporary Asian culture
Alison Croggon
The Monthly Essays

Network error

What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN?
Paddy Manning
The Monthly Essays

Alt-wrong

The Australian right is startling for its incoherence
Richard Cooke

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  1. The Monthly Today
    A race to the bottom on race
    Turnbull’s 457 visa announcement was not about jobs
    Sean Kelly
    A race to the bottom on race. Source
  2. A pointless passage to India
    Turnbull’s trip to India produced very little except another PR boost for the Adani mine
    Mungo MacCallum
    A pointless passage to India. Source
  3. The Monthly Essays
    Network error
    What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN?
    Paddy Manning
    Network error. Image of a loading icon
  4. The Monthly Essays
    Alt-wrong
    The Australian right is startling for its incoherence
    Richard Cooke
    Alt-wrong. Image of Pauline Hanson
  5. Kendrick rising
    With his new album, ‘Damn’, Kendrick Lamar cements his status as the world’s reigning hip-hop artist
    Anwen Crawford
    Kendrick rising. Source

Politics

Seeking a workable solution for asylum seekers. © Department of Immigration and Border Protection
Seeking a workable solution for asylum seekers
Robert Manne responds to Klaus Neumann
Robert Manne
Injustices and the art of realpolitik. Source
Injustices and the art of realpolitik
The asylum-seeker solution proposed by Brennan, Costello, Manne and Menadue is unacceptable
Klaus Neumann
Sky’s the limit
Latham’s sacking reveals the hypocrisy of the free-speech crusaders
Mungo MacCallum
Our ethnic face. Illustration
Comment
Our ethnic face
The Australia of Pauline Hanson’s second parliamentary term looks very different to the Australia of her first
George Megalogenis


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Society

A cleansing fire. Image of Jessa Crispin
Arts & Letters / Books
A cleansing fire
Jessa Crispin’s ‘Why I Am Not a Feminist’ demands a dismantling of mainstream feminism … and the system itself
Stephanie Bishop
Crossing over. Image of George Michael
Arts & Letters / Music
Crossing over
On George Michael, race and pop
Anwen Crawford
The Medicine
Working regional
A stint in a remote Western Australian hospital brings its own challenges
Karen Hitchcock
Vox
An Aboriginal place
A farming family and Indigenous elders join forces to recognise a special site on private land
Sam Vincent


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Culture

Race, celebrity and power in ‘OJ: Made in America’

The documentary is a powerful examination of the OJ Simpson trial within the context of race relations in the US
Anwen Crawford
‘Fever Dream’ by Samanta Schweblin. Cover of Fever Dream
Noted

‘Fever Dream’ by Samanta Schweblin

Trans. Megan McDowell; Oneworld; $19.99
Helen Elliott
The whole follow-your-dreams thing. Still from Atlanta
Arts & Letters / Television

The whole follow-your-dreams thing

There’s some bite to Donald Glover’s languid, lyrical comedy series ‘Atlanta’
Luke Davies
Arts & Letters / Photography

Art walks a tightrope

Bill Henson exhibits recent photographic work at the National Gallery of Victoria
Sebastian Smee
The Nation Reviewed

Magic hands

Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
Chloe Hooper

The welcome challenge of ‘Legion’

FX’s new Marvel superhero show is refreshingly cerebral
Harry Windsor
Arts & Letters / Film

Backstage drama

The domestic disquiet of Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ gives way to suspense
Luke Davies
Arts & Letters / Books

Tasmania got gamed

James Boyce’s ‘Losing Streak’ investigates how one family came to rule the state’s poker-machine industry
Amanda Lohrey
Arts & Letters / Books

Unapologetic

Cat Marnell’s ‘How To Murder Your Life’ is an addiction memoir with a difference
Jenny Valentish


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Environment

Fish have feelings too. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Fish have feelings too
Under-the-sea society is much more complex than we imagine
James Bradley
Mice alert. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Mice alert
Farmers on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula are preparing for a plague
Michael Dulaney
The Perth Freight Link: Stranger than fiction. © Renee Schipp
The Monthly Essays
The Perth Freight Link: Stranger than fiction
The WA state election could end one of the country’s most controversial infrastructure projects
David Whish-Wilson
Holy shark. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Holy shark
Leonie the leopard shark’s switch to asexual reproduction is a world first
Ashley Hay


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Economics

The shorter working week can work
It’s time to take the four-day work week seriously
Emma Dawson
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
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


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