Arena Magazine issue no. 139, 2015
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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EDITORIAL | ||
Alison Caddick | 2 | |
LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
Michael Leunig | 4 | |
AGAINST THE CURRENT | ||
From the ruins of the furnished apartment | Maher Mughrabi | 5 |
THE WILLINGNESS TO HOPE Paris, the environment and the West | Edgar Morin, with Coralie Schaub | 7 |
DAMMING MYANMAR Australian involvement and the Shan's resistance | Melody Kemp | 9 |
TAX WARS Malcolm Turnbull's positivity hides the prospect of the 80/20 society | John Hinkson | 12 |
A POST-NEOCON CANADA? What might Australia learn from the Trudeau win? | Guy Rundle | 13 |
COMMENT | ||
JEREMY CORBYN AND A POST-AUSTERITY BRITAIN Steering the course of the future Left? | Harold Stone | 16 |
POST NEOLIBERALISM? Shaping up to the challenge | Allan Patience | 18 |
COLONIAL 'DIPLOMACY' On 'Syrian Fantasies' | Vera Butler | 20 |
FEATURES | ||
MENDING MOGADISHU Somali belonging in the twenty-first century | Vivian Gerrand | 22 |
STILL NO END IN SIGHT? Legacies of the First World War, reading Frank Furedi | Matthew Sharpe | 26 |
ADDICTION TO ALLIANCE WAR The wars we didn't know we were having, and their consequences | Richard Tanter | 30 |
SUFFICIENT PACIFICATION An extract from 'Israel's Matrix of Control' in War Amongst the People | Jeff Halper | 35 |
HEPATITIS C AND THE PBS A miracle cure just out of reach | Bella Anderson | 38 |
ESSAY | ||
CONNECTIONS, COLLABORATIONS, KNOWLEDGES AND KIN Retelling the story of Homo sapiens | David Turnbull | 42 |
ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
BACK TO THE FUTURE Objects, memory and two iconic British institutions | Valerie Krips | 45 |
REGULARS | ||
COMMON TOUCH: TALKING UNDER WATER | Mark Furlong | 21 |
REVIEWS | ||
WHAT AILS THE WEST? Houellebecq's Submission, of East and West | Peter Eade | 50 |
TRUE LOVE? Savage satire in The Lobster | Neil Maizels | 51 |
LIMITS OF THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION The failures of Franzen's Purity | Simon Cooper | 54 |
POETRY | ||
LINDA | Beth Z. Charles | 41 |
THE RAT SUMMONS | Kevin Hart | 49 |
SPRING WHEAT | Kevin Hart | 49 |
CAP AND BELLS | Robert DiNapoli | 51 |
HOMAGE TO THE ARTS OF EMPIRE | Peter Murphy | 53 |
CARTOONS | ||
Matt Bissett-Johnson |