The Monthly, September 2008, No. 38

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1. Winner of the 2008 John Curtin Prize for Journalism: Richard Flanagan, ‘Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests', The Monthly, May 2007 (read his acceptance speech).

2. Apologetics and Hypocrisy: An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne

3. Letters to the editor are welcome and will be published here on our website

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In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment •  John Hirst
A Tale of Two Sittings •  Cullen Murphy
Operation Tom Yum •  Ashley Hay
Saving Yourself •  Benjamin Law
The Monthly Essays
Luke Davies
Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison
Nicolas Rothwell
Arts & Letters
Under the Rainshadow •  Chloe Hooper
Only Look, Only See •  Inga Clendinnen
Unhappy Endings •  Amanda Lohrey
Totally Wired •  Gideon Haigh
‘Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All’ by Christina Thompson •  Zora Simic
‘The Phantom’, No. 1518 •  Kevin Patrick
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