November 2019
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Voices from the state that has turned against Labor as a party of federal government
Anthony Albanese wants to be a Labor leader, not an Opposition leader
Bougainville’s independence vote is a historic moment for Papua New Guinea, and a reckoning for Australia
The Nation Reviewed
Labor and the Liberals have abandoned their old ideological contests as they battle to define the values of the new middle class
Successful compensation cases haven’t curbed the prevalence of unlawful strip-searches by NSW Police
Lumping dingoes in with “wild dogs” means the native animals are being deliberately culled
A former Russian athlete’s plan for Australia’s first commercial sub
Arts & Letters
Radical ambiguity: Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison
The essay collections ‘Trick Mirror’, ‘Coventry’ and ‘Make It Scream, Make It Burn’ offer doubt and paradoxical thinking in the face of algorithmic perfectionism
Late style: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’
Reuniting with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, the acclaimed director has delivered less of a Mob film than a morality play
The writer of ‘Took the Children Away’ delivers a memoir of his Stolen Generations childhood and an album of formative songs
Noted
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’ The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
