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The Culture Issue out now! Featuring Boyer Lectures’ Julia Baird on threats to democracy, and The Monthly Awards: Sebastian Smee, Marcia Langton, Alison Croggon and more name their 2025 arts highlights. Plus Ashley Hay, Robert Skinner, and lots more. www.themonthly.com.au/magazine/oct...
October 2025
Australia's leading current affairs magazine
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An absorbing account of the life and ideas of the American psychedelic philosopher who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants | Ben Brooker
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI? | Christine Kenneally
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AI playing its part
Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?
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Martin McKenzie-Murray on the practical benefit of a serious journalist turning their hand to lowbrow comedy.
Toilet humour
The practical benefit of a serious journalist turning their hand to lowbrow comedy
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An absorbing account of the life and ideas of the American psychedelic philosopher who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants | Ben Brooker
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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We’re not bothering with exposition in ‘The Grand Finale’: if you don’t know about the romantic history of the father of Daisy the kitchen maid’s first husband, who died in World War I, well, that’s on you.
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’
Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise, the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom
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We’re not bothering with exposition in ‘The Grand Finale’: if you don’t know about the romantic history of the father of Daisy the kitchen maid’s first husband, who died in World War I, well, that’s on you.
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’
Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise, the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom
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‘The Food of the Goods’ would set out his “archaic revival” theory: the idea that humanity’s survival relies on a return to our ancestors’ relationship with psychoactive plants.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d
‘The Food of the Goods’ would set out his “archaic revival” theory: the idea that humanity’s survival relies on a return to our ancestors’ relationship with psychoactive plants.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d
St John succeeds in teasing apart the contradictions that vined around McKenna’s varied personas: a hippie esotericist barely interested in Eastern religion or non-drug-induced altered states; a habitually stoned but unfailingly punctual ragamuffin.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d
A collage of the influences between early 20th century photographers and painters, expressionists and surrealists, non-binary tricksters and romantic poets, to show the accomplishments of a woman’s eye and the obstacles faced by her sex and gender.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’
A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d
A collage of the influences between early 20th century photographers and painters, expressionists and surrealists, non-binary tricksters and romantic poets, to show the accomplishments of a woman’s eye and the obstacles faced by her sex and gender.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’
A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d
He would, I suspect, have been deeply ambivalent … perhaps most especially at the spectacle of white-coated “squares” dreaming up non-hallucinogenic “hallucinogens” in state-funded laboratories.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’
The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d
A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy | Karen Middleton
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Brereton for the NACCery?
A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d
“Why on earth do we allow a commissioner who’s on $800,000 a year to engage in things which potentially mean that we’re going to have to get someone else to do the job that he’s been paid so much [to do]?” Pocock asked. mnth.ly/W08nYeG
Brereton for the NACCery?
A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
Listening to Denver and Rich read this letter, translated from English to Stuurman’s native language, is a powerful intervention to the colonial archives, offering an opportunity to rediscover the man outside the colonial gaze.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
Listening to Denver and Rich read this letter, translated from English to Stuurman’s native language, is a powerful intervention to the colonial archives, offering an opportunity to rediscover the man outside the colonial gaze.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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Her book was banned by the fascist regime, not because it was polemical but because it was honest. A far greater danger.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation | Bri Lee
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‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’
When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation
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When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation | Bri Lee
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‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’
When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation
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Her book was banned by the fascist regime, not because it was polemical but because it was honest. A far greater danger.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
The development of photography, as Modjeska narrates it, becomes influenced by the development of psychoanalysis and what both mean for a truly modern perspective.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’
A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
The development of photography, as Modjeska narrates it, becomes influenced by the development of psychoanalysis and what both mean for a truly modern perspective.
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Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘A Woman’s Eye, Her Art’
A layered study of women artists from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Julie Rrap, considering their influence on contemporary art and the obstacles they faced
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
Abel Selaocoe has a voice that could chase the clouds out of the sky. It is the voice of Anohni and Nina Simone, a breaking, sweeping, witching voice.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
Abel Selaocoe has a voice that could chase the clouds out of the sky. It is the voice of Anohni and Nina Simone, a breaking, sweeping, witching voice.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d
‘Whip It’, like much of their work, was meant as satire, an apple pie in the face of America’s misogynistic, good ol’ boy culture. Instead, it became their ‘Born in the USA’.
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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