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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... no. 159 September 2019 of The Monthly est. 2005 The Monthly
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Time to Remember : The Passing of Labor's Great Speech Writer Graham Freudenberg Highlights the Party's Absence of a Clear Rationale., John Watson , single work obituary (p. 10-12)
Tasmanian Torments, Harry Windsor , single work column
'As the Australian filmmakers who have emerged over the past 15 years have demonstrated, following up an acclaimed debut is an especially devilish task. It makes sense: first films are long in the gestation and done for the love. Afterwards the newly feted director, feeling the pressure to strike while the iron is hot, attaches to an existing, often rickety project that pays well, or dusts off a script from the bottom drawer that should have stayed there.' (Introduction)
(p. 55-58)
Lambs of God : Foxtel, Craig Mathieson , single work review
— Review of Lambs of God Sarah Lambert , 2019 series - publisher film/TV ;
'The crumbling monastery that is the setting for Lambs of God, a rich and dexterous new Australian limited series, is many things. At first glance the cliffside 19th-century construction is a refuge for the remnants of Sisters of St Agnes, an enclosed order forgotten by the outside world that has dwindled to just three nuns. But the cloistered, near medieval isolation is also an incubator, revealing what faith can be when a structure evolves without a male hierarchy. When these women invoke the “mother of mercy”, it’s a radical act of spiritual self-sufficiency' (Introduction)
(p. 63)
Here Until August Josephine Rowe Black Inc., Stephanie Bishop , single work review
— Review of Here Until August : Stories Josephine Rowe , 2019 selected work short story ;
'A common tenet of the short story form is that it has no time to spare, and for this reason a story often commences as far into the action as possible, pushing up close to a single moment of reckoning. For Anton Chekhov this meant throwing away the first half of the story. For Kurt Vonnegut it resulted in a command that one begin as close to the end as possible. Josephine Rowe, in her second collection, Here Until August, tests this rule to marked effect. Instead of commencing near the end of an event, the 10 stories in this collection come as close as they can to a moment of life’s re-beginning, taking the reader up to the precipice of change rather than its culmination.' (Introduction)
(p. 64)
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