April 2020
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
As the National Party celebrates its centenary, its future is in the hands of bitter rivals Michael McCormack and Barnaby Joyce
Super heroes or super villains?
How the secretive trillionaire superannuation funds are using your money to reshape capitalism
The Nation Reviewed
Voices from the coronavirus outbreak
A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’
Neighbours and friends rebuilding communities after the bushfires
Do the great philosophers offer guidance for disaster recovery?
VOX
What can children before God learn about parenthood from the Psalms?
Three disasters, a wedding and a funeral
Reckoning with family in times of drought, fire and flood
Arts & Letters
Desert bloom: The Tennant Creek Brio
The brazen art movement born out of the troubled legacies of substance abuse and dispossession
Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm
Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian romp
The rapper and MC’s second album ‘Heavy Is the Head’ is another triumphant step bringing black British culture forward
Noted
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
‘Actress’ by Anne Enright In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
