October 2018
Magazine
The Nation Reviewed
Blowing up the government to save it
The Coalition has learnt nothing from Labor’s leadership disaster
The artistic revival at Papunya Tjupi Arts
Women painters are bringing the focus back to the birthplace of the Western Desert movement
Feliks Zemdegs, Rubik’s champion
Meet the world’s fastest cuber
Scientists, anthropologists and artists gather to make sense of the Earth’s new epoch
The Monthly Essays
Drugs: on medication, legalisation and pleasure
What role can cannabis and psychedelics play in modern medicine?
A golden age of popular Indigenous storytelling
Against the blinding whiteness on Australian stage and screens
The alluring world of Liane Moriarty
Australia’s bestselling author isn’t interested in repeating herself
Highlights of the year in Australian arts and culture
Arts & Letters
Barron Field and the myth of terra nullius
How a minor poet made a major historical error
A man and his bear: Marc Forster’s ‘Christopher Robin’
Adults will find this new tale of Winnie the Pooh surprisingly moving
The queen of reinvention turns her attention to the works of ABBA
Noted
‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner
‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion
