August 2021
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope
A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies
What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace
The Nation Reviewed
Scott Morrison is a leader who not only fails to accept responsibility but continually abandons his post
The shed that contains the future
A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production
The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe
Vox
Arts & Letters
Breathless spaces: ‘The House of Fragile Things’
James McAuley’s examination of four great art-collecting families and the French anti-Semitism that brought their downfall
Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle
Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history
New poetry from the award-winning writer and critic
Noted
Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum Goya’s dark and difficult works exhibited at NGV remind us how little the world has moved on from past horrors
European Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York QAGOMA’s exhibition goes beyond the usual blockbuster bling to favour lesser known works of the masters
