The ‘Monthly’ names De Kretser, Coetzee, Wright as best in literature
The Monthly has selected books by Michelle de Kretser, J M Coetzee and Alexis Wright as the best in literature in 2013 for its annual Arts Issue, published this month....
Patrick White: best in literature for 2012
The Arts Issue of The Monthly (ed by Paul Grabowsky) has selected Patrick White as the best in literature for the magazine’s feature ‘The best of Australian art 2012’. ‘Two lost books...
ABC Books author to take legal action against ‘The Monthly’
Author Hugh Lunn and his publisher ABC Books have written to the Monthly editor Ben Naparstek ‘requesting an apology and removal' of a review of Lunn's book Words Fail Me...
Nowra, Naperstek under fire for Greer essay
The publication of a highly critical essay by Louis Nowra on Germaine Greer and her classic book The Female Eunuch has provoked strong criticism from many for its attitude to...
‘Monthly’ review ‘a disgrace’ according to Ball
A review of the biography The Making of Julia Gillard (Jacqueline Kent, Viking) in the Monthly has drawn criticism from Penguin publisher Ben Ball, reports the Australian. The Monthly review...