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WEBAn Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film aimed at unreal beauty standards. The reality TV series following a group of Utah “mom influencers” tending to their brands after a swingers scandal makes for uneven entertainment.
The Politics - The Monthly
WEBPoliticians briefly pause their ugly immigration war to pay tribute to Labor MP Peta Murphy. The media needs to take a good hard look at itself, and the racist moral panic it has enabled. Sussan Ley is kidding herself if she thinks all is forgiven in the teal independent seats. From border security to tax, the hollow centrism of the two-party ...
Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia - The …
WEBMar 8, 2006 — Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. The meaning of John Howard’s ten years as Prime Minister of Australia – how Australia has been changed, how the era will eventually be seen – can most easily be grasped if it …
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 ...
The Monthly Book Club
WEBThe author of The Crimson Petal and the White returns with a new novel that is every bit as grand in scope, genre-transcending and beautifully detailed. Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things is a page-turning exploration of love, faith and the search for meaning. Peter Leigh, a missionary immersed in a fascinating civilisation on a distant planet, struggles to maintain his connection ...
Daniel Mannix & BA Santamaria - The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2008 — In 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born archbishop of Melbourne. Tall, gaunt and magisterial, Mannix was already ancient. Born in 1864, he had become a contentious ecclesiastical figure in the Irish nationalist movement.
‘On the Line’ by Joseph Ponthus - The Monthly
WEBApr 1, 2021 — At some stage, we all claim to have reached the end of our line. That point where the buck stops, or our tether runs out; maybe both of these at the same moment. For most of us the term is figurative, the line an imagined one. Not so for Joseph Ponthus, whose extraordinary verse novel On the Line (Black Inc., translated by Stephanie Smee) charts his experience of working on the agribusiness ...
The absent heart - The Monthly
WEBJun 2, 2010 — I am a restless and disgruntled visitor to museums, not much interested in the engineered detail of an artefact but more in how it fits into the big picture. When I see the 1785 Boulton and Watt steam engine in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum I want to know not just how it works but its significance for the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, the museum tells me neither and the exhibit stands ...
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The trenches of Mount Druitt: OneFour - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2020 — A palm tree blows in the wind outside a white fibro house. Two mattresses are leaning against a wooden fence. There are broken bicycles and broken windows. Sporting long braids, tracksuits and Gucci caps, a gang of rappers have come home to Mount Druitt, in Sydney’s west. Hulking and charismatic, J Emz stares down the barrel of the camera and ...