The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture
WEBThe Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture. Visiting one of the country’s massive landfill sites to understand the dangers of how we deal with millions of tonnes of waste. As the presidential election campaign grows ever more feverish, is the idea of America in terminal decline?
Read This - The Monthly
WEBSarah McVeigh, editor . Sarah McVeigh is the co-creator of Read This and Schwartz Media’s head of audio. Prior to joining Schwartz, Sarah worked in new show development at Gimlet Media. Resistance, a show she co-created, was named as one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker, The New York Times and Vogue and recognised for excellence in trauma reporting by the DART Center for ...
Capitalism after the crises - The Monthly
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · Thanks for reading this free article. There is nowhere quite like The Monthly.We are told that we live in a time of diminished attention spans; a time where the 24-hour-news-cycle has produced a collective desire for hot takes and brief summaries of the news and ideas that effect us.
Final sentence: Gerald Murnane’s ‘Last Letter to a Reader’
WEBDec 1, 2021 · Last Letter to a Reader is, we are informed, the final book to be published by Gerald Murnane in his lifetime, appearing nearly half a century after the first. The essays that make up Last Letter are named after each of Murnane’s books and arranged in order of their publication. Each essay supplies useful information about the relevant book, its origins, and the author’s life, all through ...
The terrible truth of climate change
WEBAug 19, 2019 · In June, I delivered a keynote presentation on Australia’s vulnerability to climate change and our policy challenges at the annual meeting of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the main conference for those working in the climate science community. I saw it as an opportunity to summarise the post-election political and scientific reality we now face.
‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ by Bill Gammage | The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2011 · The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. 'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia' By Bill Gammage, Allen and Unwin, 384pp; $49.99. Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – …
Puzzling the purpose of Australian literary magazines
WEBOct 1, 2013 · Because there is for poets no equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider – a speculative venture supported by billions of dollars from world governments, with no certainty of outcomes that can be monetised or weaponised – literary magazines exist. At least, that was my supposition as I assembled a pile of …
Alice Pung - The Monthly
WEBDec 20, 2013 · Alice Pung is a writer, lawyer and teacher. She is the author of. Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer. Ah Gong and Ah Mah move into a culturally diverse aged-care facility. The trouble with repealing section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Mr Abe Lourie is 81, and tells me that he is in ...
An imagined life: David Malouf - The Monthly
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Yes, David Malouf, at his typewriter at home in an ancient Tuscan hilltop village. No, David Malouf, knocking back a Sex on the Beach cocktail amid a Brazilian-waxed throng. Yet here he is, at home, in the devil’s very maw. His apartment is high up: on the 28th floor, not quite the penthouse, but almost. It’s a classic Surfers Paradise ...
Eastern blocked: Lea Ypi’s ‘Free’ - The Monthly
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · Growing up in Eastern Europe in the ’90s, as the free market’s arrival failed to ‘end history’. Today, the 1990s have a reputation for a kind of bland optimism. After the collapse of communism in the Eastern Bloc and the triumph of Western democracy, the big questions of politics, the story went, had been settled; all that remained was ...
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