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The Monthly Today
A very important day
The impact of today’s events will be felt all the way to the next election
Sean Kelly
A play on words. Malik Keegan photographed by Kate Davis

A play on words

Fraught Outfit’s ‘Book of Exodus: Part I’ explores the written word in a realm beyond language
Alison Croggon
Vox

One step beyond

What would it take to modernise Alcoholics Anonymous?
Jenny Valentish

UK election diary: The London attacks

Labor senator Sam Dastyari, in London for the UK general election, was caught up in the attack on the Borough Market
Sam Dastyari

Foregone conclusions

The opposition to the Uluru statement is dispiriting and frustrating but predictable
Mungo MacCallum
Comment

The new Forgotten People

The wider cost of Australia’s housing affordability crisis
Judith Brett
The Monthly Essays

Grandfathering the Australian dream

House prices, insecure work and growing debts … Who can afford a stake in today’s society?
Richard Denniss

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  1. UK election diary: The London attacks
    Labor senator Sam Dastyari, in London for the UK general election, was caught up in the attack on the Borough Market
    Sam Dastyari
    UK election diary: The London attacks. Source
  2. The Monthly Essays
    Grandfathering the Australian dream
    House prices, insecure work and growing debts … Who can afford a stake in today’s society?
    Richard Denniss
    Grandfathering the Australian dream. Image of a broken key
  3. The Monthly Today
    A very important day
    The impact of today’s events will be felt all the way to the next election
    Sean Kelly
    A very important day. Source
  4. Vox
    One step beyond
    What would it take to modernise Alcoholics Anonymous?
    Jenny Valentish
  5. Foregone conclusions
    The opposition to the Uluru statement is dispiriting and frustrating but predictable
    Mungo MacCallum

Politics

SOS. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
SOS
Brutalist masterpiece or harbour eyesore? Sydney’s Sirius building faces an uncertain future
David Neustein
A job half undone. Illustration
Comment
A job half undone
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must be more than just tokenism
Noel Pearson
The mythical Menzies
The anniversary of Menzies’ forgotten people speech is a plea by the conservatives to get back to their roots
Mungo MacCallum
The non-existent coup. Source
The non-existent coup
The rumours of Anthony Albanese’s leadership challenge have been greatly exaggerated
Mungo MacCallum


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Society

Vox
The school-shopping list
Private, public, state, selective … the trials of choosing a high school
Fran Cusworth
The Medicine
The next big thin
Dissecting dietary fads and habits
Karen Hitchcock
The snip. © Eraxion / iStock
The Monthly Essays
The snip
It’s a simple procedure, but having a vasectomy can raise questions of masculinity and equality
Ceridwen Dovey
True history of the Clarke gang. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
True history of the Clarke gang
Infamous bushrangers of Braidwood, New South Wales
Sam Vincent


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Culture

Lowlife in the suburbs. Still from Hounds of Love
Arts & Letters / Film

Lowlife in the suburbs

Ben Young’s ‘Hounds of Love’ presents horror in all-too-familiar surrounds
Shane Danielsen
‘Anything Is Possible’ by Elizabeth Strout. Cover of Anything Is Possible
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‘Anything Is Possible’ by Elizabeth Strout

Viking; $29.99
Helen Elliott
‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami. Cover of Men Without Women
Noted

‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami

Harvill Secker; $35
Stephanie Bishop
Arts & Letters / Music

Time Lords

The Radiophonic Workshop, creator of those ‘Doctor Who’ sound-effects, is back
Anwen Crawford
Arts & Letters / Art

Sensory cycles

‘Van Gogh and the Seasons’ at the National Gallery of Victoria
Sebastian Smee

Young adults

‘The Gulf’ explores the family dynamics of abuse and its effects on children
Alison Croggon

Cinema is dead, yet it lives

David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ shatters the tedium of prestige television
Luke Goodsell

Deconstructive criticism

‘Wild Bore’ at the Malthouse Theatre is an irreverent criticism of criticism itself
Alison Croggon

Mark Frost and Sherilyn Fenn on truth, mystery and ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’

The groundbreaking series’ co-creator and co-star discuss its enduring appeal and new season
Andy Hazel


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Environment

Nature 2.0. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Nature 2.0
Saving Australia’s smallest freshwater fish
Nicole Gill
The tallest tree. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
The tallest tree
Brett Mifsud is saving Australia’s tallest trees
Patrick Witton
Making tracks. Illustration
The Nation Reviewed
Making tracks
The restoration of Mt Wellington’s Organ Pipes track requires painstaking work
Josephine Rowe
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


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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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