The July issue of The Monthly provides context for the world at large, offering closer looks, wider views and deeper consideration. Christos Tsiolkas assesses the circumstances that have led to One Nation’s ascendency in the polls, trying to make sense of how and why – and what it tells us about the kind of politics that is succeeding in contemporary Australia. Kirsten Krauth offers her assessment of the catastrophic disgrace of novelist Craig Silvey, who pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child-exploitation material. She contemplates the breach of trust, a loss of a friendship, and the loss of a writer whose work mattered to her. And Sarah Krasnostein provides a personal, cultural and psychological history of that modern phenomenon: the shopping mall.
Plus there’s Chris Wallace on AUKUS; Elizabeth Finkel on Australia’s dinosaur history; horses and bookshelves; ’80s British sex romps on the telly; reviews, personal reflections and more besides.