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WEBThe Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. A reflection on the process and burden of creating an imagined future during a time of climate crisis and existential dread. Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist.
What’s gone wrong at the ABC - The Monthly
WEBAug 1, 2022 · What’s gone wrong at the ABC | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. Journalists Maxine McKew, Quentin Dempster and Kerry O’Brien at a press conference following ABC cutbacks in 2000. @ Dean Lewins / AAP images. Years of government attacks over funding and balance have left the national broadcaster in desperate ...
Vox - The Monthly
WEBVox | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. Exploring memory and connection – and discovering the true power of fiction – with literary great Gerald Murnane. In letting others into our homes and our pets’ lives, international dog-sitting services are a two-way exercise of trust.
Capitalism after the crises - The Monthly
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · The third crisis – supply chain pressures aggravated by a war, that became a price shock – came just months after the peak of the second. That one was a pandemic health crisis that triggered a supply shock. And both these crises have emerged in a global economy in many ways still defined by the effects of the first – the global financial crisis of 2008 that became a demand shock (and ...
How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist - The Monthly
WEBIn this series’ first instalment, a teacher reveals where pressure lies when working at a prestigious school. For our first episode of 2024, Michael speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence and reflects on how her upbringing provided the perfect building blocks for a career as a writer.
The man who never grew up - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2016 · The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a delight in words. But a lifelong sweet tooth may have been his most vital characteristic. Among the talismans that Dahl kept in his writing hut in the English village of Great Missenden was a ...
No Dogs Die in Briohny Doyle's New Novel - The Monthly
WEBMichael chats with author Briohny Doyle, whose most recent novel Why We Are Here explores the complexities of grief, both individual and collective.
Down on the farm - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2024 · While activists shine a light into the dark corners of the meat industry, new legislation seeks to protect business as usual and criminalise efforts to expose it
About - The Monthly
WEBAbout | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. is one of Australia’s boldest voices, providing enlightening commentary and vigorous, at times controversial, debate on the issues that affect the nation. Home to our finest thinkers, journalists and critics, including David Marr, Helen Garner, Don Watson and Anna ...
In times like these, what would Oodgeroo do? - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2020 · How would Oodgeroo tell the story of our times? In the great Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov’s essay “The Creative Writer”, first published in 1941, he wrote about the two stages of inspiration – rapture and recapture – and the spiritual thrill of disconnecting from reality in order to return to the “home for the spirit”, which was “the emphatically and unshakably illogical ...