The Monthly Jaivin, Clive James, Kate Jennings, Paul Kelly, Benjamin Law, Amanda Lohrey, Mungo MacCallum, Shane Maloney, Robert Manne, David Marr, Maxine McKew, Drusilla Modjeska, Peter Robb, Kevin Rudd, Margaret Simons, Tim Soutphommasane, Lindsay Tanner, Malcolm Turnbull and Don Watson. Essays The magazine generally publishes essays 3,000 to 6,000 words long. The cover stories "Being There", Mark McKenna's investigation of key Australian historian Manning Clark, and Wendi Deng Murdoch, Eric Ellis's profile of the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch were around 10,000 words long. Early in 2006, "The Monthly" published "Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid" by Gideon Haigh,
Sun Deng (recluse) in Modern Standard Chinese, owing to the common use of "qin" in names for instrumental loanwords (such as "kouqin" 口琴 "mouth organ; harmonica"). Sun Deng was renowned for playing a one-string version of the qin (一弦琴); the 499 "Zhen'gao" 真誥 (tr. Campany 2002: 516) says Sun Deng could "derive eight notes by plucking a single string." Ji/Xi Kang and Ruan Ji were close friends, famous for their skills in poetry, music, and "qingtan" ripostes. They helped to develop "xuanxue" "Neo-Daoism" and emphasized the importance of "ziran" "naturalness; spontaneity". Ji and Ruan were in a homosexual relationship with Shan Tao, another