May 2019
Magazine
The Nation Reviewed
The government’s appeal to self-interest groups
The Liberal Party has little left but pitches to the hip pocket
The Islamic prison chaplain from Goulburn who rushed to New Zealand
Terri Butler’s rise through the rancour
The Queensland Labor MP on the hustings and the hating
The cases against Colin Manock
Calls mount for a royal commission into SA’s former forensic pathologist
Being bitten by a tick just got a whole lot stranger
The Monthly Essays
News Corp: Democracy’s greatest threat
Denialism, nihilism and the Murdoch propaganda machine
A fresh canvas for Indigenous politics
The Uluru statement is headed for referendum
VOX
The end of a century-old enmity between Australia and a Solomon Islands community
Pens at the ready for the nation’s big night in
Arts & Letters
Leonard French’s Balzacian life
Reg MacDonald’s biography may return this Australian artist to the national imagination
The desperate, secretive drama: ‘Choice Words’ edited by Louise Swinn
Personal stories consider questions of choice, legality and stigma surrounding abortion
Killer instincts: The ‘John Wick’ franchise
Keanu Reeves hones his stardom in the hyperreal violence of an assassin’s tale
Starstruck: Reckoning with Michael Jackson’s legacy
What do we do with the music after ‘Leaving Neverland’?
Noted
Game of Thrones: Season 8 HBO’s epic fantasy series reaches its martial conclusion
‘Room for a Stranger’ by Melanie Cheng The medico-writer delivers a novel driven less by storyline than accumulated observation
