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The Monthly February issue cover essay
When the case concludes, the essay will be made available to readers once again. The Monthly stands by Louise and her journalism and remains extremely proud of the essay as vital and compelling ...
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The land of opportunism
Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and ...
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New George Pell survivors come forward
Investigative journalist and contributor to The Monthly Louise Milligan shares the stories of two survivors who want the world to know what Pell did to them, and how a legal strategy deployed by the ...
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Tom Glassey
Depending on your passion for driving, Canberra’s Summernats weekend is either a festival of craft and engineering or a noisy inconvenience ...
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Horsegirl’s ‘Phonetics On and On’
The Chicago indie trio’s new album of infectious weird pop unaffectedly wears its ’80s and ’90s influences on it sleeve Horsegirl is a three-piece indie band from Chicago that formed in 2019 when they ...
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Father disfigures: Charles Williams’ ‘Inside’
In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film derived from difficult personal experience The father is a presiding ...
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Altered states: ‘All We Imagine as Light’ and ‘Queer’
Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix–winning story of three hard-working women in Mumbai, and Luca Guadagnino’s steamy adaptation of William Burroughs’ 1950s novel It’s an all too familiar sight: a ...
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‘Up in Annie’s room behind the clock’
An initially confusing remark from the author’s grandmother became a wry touchstone even as her dementia took hold I was about four when I first heard my grandmother use this expression. She kept a ...
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Is a biennial indigenous festival in Taiwan an attempt to atone for the grim truth of a people’s extinction?
The November moon was behind the clouds, a brushstroke of white in the dark, when the first song began. There were flaming torches. An arrow was shot into the east. Four fires burned in the corners of ...
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‘Severance’ season two
The much-anticipated return of the series sharply satirising work-life balance is convoluted but still skewers the quiet violence of the corporate world Before his script caught the attention of ...
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Street cars named Desire
Depending on your passion for driving, Canberra’s Summernats weekend is either a festival of craft and engineering or a noisy inconvenience If you’ve never seen a 1971 Ford XY Fairmont worth $1.8 ...