The Weekend Read
Listen to Australia's best writers and thinkers read out longform essays from The Monthly magazine, the country's leading publication on politics, current affairs and culture.
1
Anna Stewart on being a captain of one of the b...
13 min
2
Atticus Bastow on the mysteries of the universe...
15 min
3
Martin McKenzie-Murray on the ugly side of foot...
19 min
4
Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future
19 min
5
Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain
13 min
6
Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the ...
27 min
7
Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much fo...
17 min
8
Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the p...
15 min
9
Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s ...
13 min
10
Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is mean...
25 min
11
Suzannah Marshall Macbeth on the role of predators
15 min
12
The Bhutanese nuns editing Wikipedia to share t...
18 min
13
Jack Manning Bancroft on Indigenous knowledge s...
18 min
14
Nicole Hasham on a Christian monument a decade ...
35 min
15
Read This: David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie
27 min
16
Robyn Annear on the untold history in our publi...
13 min
17
Patrick Dodson makes his case for the Voice
48 min
18
When music journalism meets an MRI scan
19 min
19
New nipples with tattoo ink
19 min
20
Christos Tsiolkas on pieces of fiction that sta...
16 min
21
Don Watson on cancelling a war hero
13 min
22
John Safran on lessons from his friend, Father ...
12 min
23
Carrie Tiffany on sugar, family and loss
20 min
24
Esther Linder on food insecurity
26 min
25
Michael Williams on The Monthly’s 200th edition
17 min