Indexes (27)
Index for 2023: Nos 450–460 & online features
ABR Index 2023
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2023
2023 Australian Book Review Index
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ADAM, Pip, Audition, Giramondo, 456/29, Jennifer Mills
AKBAR, Kaveh, The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 poets on the divine, Penguin, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
AKRAM, Wasim with Gideon Haigh, Sultan: A memoir, Hardie Grant Books, 453/43, Jonathan Green
ALBISTON, Jordie, Frank, National Library of Australia Publishing, 453/50, Anthony Lynch
ALEXANDER, Rustam, Red Closet: The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR, Manchester University Press, 454/43, Iva Glisic
ANDERSON, Kim E. The Prize, Pantera Press, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
ANDERSON, Susie, The Body Country, Hachette, 458/40, Bebe Backhouse-Oliver
ANGEL, Libby, Where I Slept, Text Publishing, 455/41, Jay Daniel Thompson
ARMSTRONG, Kate J., Nightbirds, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
ARROW, Michelle (ed.), Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution, NewSouth, 453/14, Marilyn Lake
ASHLEY, Melissa, The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Affirm Press, 460/41, Danielle Clode
ATHERTON, Cassandra and Paul Hetherington (eds.), Alcatraz, Gazebo Books, 457/51, Judith Bishop
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history, Auckland University Press, 459/12, Jim McAloon
ATWOOD, Margaret, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Chatto & Windus, 453/30, Sascha Morrell
AUTY, Kate, O’Leary of the Underworld: The untold story of the Forrest River Massacre, La Trove University Press, 453/11, Ann Curthoys
BACKHOUSE, Bebe, More Than These Bones, Magabala Books, 458/42, Julie Janson
BALINT, Ruth, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe, Cornell University Press, 450/53, Ebony Nilsson
BANCROFT, Jack Manning, Hoodie Economics: Changing our systems to value what matters, Hardie Grant Books, 458/38, Declan Fry
BARANAY, Inez, Drink Against Drunkenness: The life and times of Sasha Soldatow, Local Times Publishing, 452/34, Susan Varga
BARNES, Stuart, Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing, 459/41, Michael Farrell
BASHFORD, Alison, An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family, Allen Lane, 457/42, Gary Werskey
BEESLEY, Luke, In the Photograph, Giramondo, 456/58, Paul Hetherington
BELLAMY, Alex J., Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, war, and the failure of international diplomacy, Columbia University Press, 451/52, Tom Bamforth
BENJAMIN, Roger, Growing up Modern: Canberra’s Round House and Alex Jelinek, Halstead Press, 454/46, Sheridan Palmer
BENNETT, Tamryn, Icaros, Vagabond Press, 459/43, Sam Ryan
BERMAN, Greg and Aubrey Fox, Gradual: The case for incremental change in a radical age, Oxford University Press, 457/19, Glyn Davis
BIRCH, Tony, Women and Children, UQP, 460/42, Naama Grey-Smith
BISHOP, Stephanie, The Anniversary, Hachette, 452/36, Astrid Edwards
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, (translated and edited by Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoubi), Freedom, Only Freedom: The prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, Bloomsbury Academic, 450/12, Hessom Razavi
BOSTOCK, Shauna, Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories, Allen & Unwin, 458/34, Jacinta Walsh
BOYD, William, The Romantic: The real life of Cashel Greville Ross – a novel, Viking, 450/37, Gabriella Edelstein
BRAGG, Melvyn, Back in the Day: A memoir, Sceptre, 453/23, Michael Shmith
BROOKS, Peter, Seduced by Story: The use and abuse of narrative, New York Review Books, 451/26, Killian Quigley
BROWN, Claire, The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages, OUP, 458/32, Thomas Poulton
BROWNING, Daniel, Close to the Subject: Selected works, Magabala Books, 458/22, Philip Morrissey
BUORO, Stephen, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury, 455/38, Andrew van der Vlies
BURGMANN, J.R., Children of Tomorrow, Upswell, 453/32, Naama Grey-Smith
CADWALLADER, Robyn, The Fire and the Rose, Fourth Estate, 455/39, Naama Grey-Smith
CALABY, Tara, House of Longing, Text Publishing, 454/33, Rose Lucas
CAMPBELL, Genevieve with Tiwi Elders and knowledge holders, The Old Songs Are Always New: Singing traditions of the Tiwi Islands, Sydney University Press, 458/35, John J. Bradley
CANNON, Michael, Cannon Fire: A life in print, Miegunyah Press, 450/48, Johanna Leggatt
CARBIS, Gaylene, I Have Decided to Remain Vertical, Puncher & Wattmann, 455/50, Chris Arnold
CAREY, Jane, Taking to the Field: A history of Australian women in science, Monash University Publishing, 452/47, Jessica Urwin
CARLSON, Bronwyn and Terri Farrelly, Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Cole Baxter, online only
CATTON, Eleanor, Birnam Wood, Granta, 452/44, Michael Winkler
CHANDLER, Daniel, Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like?, Allen Lane, 459/15, Glyn Davis
CHARLTON, Andrew, Australia’s Pivot to India, Black Inc., 460/54, John Zubrycki
CIURARU, Carmela, Lives of the Wives: literary marriages, HarperCollins, 453/42, Jacqueline Kent
CLANCY, Kate, Period: The real story of menstruation, Princeton University Press, 459/58, Caroline de Costa
CLARK, Christopher, Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a new world, 1848–1849, Allen Lane, 460/22, Peter McPhee
CLARKE, Patricia, Bold Types: How Australia’s first women journalists blazed a trail, National Library of Australia, 450/54, Bridget Griffen-Foley
CLEMENS, Justin, A Foul Wind, Hunter Publishers, 452/50 and 454/47, Judith Bishop
COAD, Rachel, New York City Glow, Upwell, 460/44, Bernard Caleo
COETZEE, J.M., The Pole and Other Stories, Text Publishing, 455/36, Geordie Williamson
COHEN, David, The Terrible Event, Transit Lounge, 454/32, Alex Cothren
COLLINS, Rijn, Fed to Red Birds, Simon & Schuster, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
COOPER, Anthony with Thorsten Perl, Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything, NewSouth, 454/17, Joan Beaumont
COOPER, Melinda J., Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s interwar fiction, Sydney University Press, 451/24, Susan Sheridan
CORNWELL, Tim, A Private Spy: The letters of John le Carré, Viking, 450/50, Michael Shmith
CRAIG, Jen, Wall, Puncher & Wattmann, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
CROPP, Ryan, Donald Horne: A life in the lucky country, La Trobe University Press, 458/58, Tom Wright
CURTHOYS, Ann, Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig, The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A biographical history of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island, Routledge, 455/33, Georgina Arnott
DAISLEY, Stephen, A Better Place, Text Publishing, 457/35, Patrick Allington
DALGARNO, Paul, A Country of Eternal Light, Fourth Estate, 451/33, Jennifer Mills
DALGARNO, Paul, Prudish Nation: Life, love and libido, Upwell, 460/51, Frank Bongiorno
DAMOUSI, Joy, The Humanitarians: Child war refugees and Australian humanitarianism in a transnational world, 1919-1975, Cambridge University Press, 451/58, Andrew Markus
DAO, André, Anam, Hamish Hamilton, 455/42, Scott McCulloch
DAVIDSON, Robyn, Unfinished Woman, Bloomsbury, 458/50, Jacqueline Kent
DAVIS, Megan and George Williams, Everything You Need to Know about the Voice, NewSouth, 458/17, Bronwyn Fredericks
DAVISON, Graeme, My Grandfather’s Clock: Four centuries of a British-Australian family, Miegunyah Press, 459/11, Marilyn Lake
DAY, Gregory, The Bell of the World, Transit Lounge, 451/34, Michael Winkler
DAY, Sarah, Slack Tide, Pitt Street Poetry, 451/43, Jennifer Harrison
DE GRAZIA, Margreta, Shakespeare Without a Life, Oxford University Press, 457/48, David McInnis
DEANE, Joel, Judas Boys, Hunter, 459/30, Anders Villani
DEBENEDETTI, Gabriel, The Long Alliance: The imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Scribe, 450/26, Varun Ghosh
DOBBIN, Cindy and Freda Marnie Nicholls, My Mother the Spy, Allen & Unwin, 458/61, Michael Sexton
DOWDING, Peter and Ken Spillman, Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The valour of Bruce Dowding, Pen and Sword, 459/53, Peter McPhee
DOWLING, Gregory, The Colosseum Introduction, Franciscan University Press, 453/53, Geoff Page
DOYLE, Briohny, Why We Are Here, Vintage, 457/36, Alex Cothren
DRUMMOND, Willo, Moon Wrasses, Puncher & Wattmann, 459/43, Sam Ryan
DUNBAR, Jennifer Mackenzie, Missing Pieces, MidnightSun, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
DUNLOP, Tim, Voices of Us: The independents’ movement transforming Australian democracy, NewSouth, 450/20, Dennis Altman
DYLAN, Bob, The Philosophy of Modern Song, Simon & Schuster, 451/47, Andrew Ford
EAGLETON, Terry, Critical Revolutionaries: Five critics who changed the way we read, Yale University Press, 451/36, Benjamin Madden
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby, She is the Earth, Magabala Books, 458/42, Julie Janson
EDELE, Mark, Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The whole story, Melbourne University Press, 457/20, Nick Hordern
EDEN HOROWITZ, Mark (ed.), The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II, Oxford University Press, 453/40, Ian Dickson
EICH, Stefan, The Currency of Politics, Princeton University Press, 451/50, John Tang
ELLIOTT, Anthony, Algorithmic Intimacy: The digital revolution in personal relationships, Polity Press, 460/52, Judith Bishop
ELLIOTT, Helen, Eleven Letters to You: A memoir, Text Publishing, 455/22, Brenda Walker
ENRIGHT, Anne, The Wren, The Wren, Jonathen Cape, 459/31, Diane Stubbings
FINK, Jesse, The Eagle in the Mirror, Viking, 458/61, Michael Sexton
FINKEL, Alan, Powering Up: Unleashing the clean energy supply chain, Black Inc., 457/37, Julian V. McCarthy
FINKEMEYER, Pip, Sad Girl Novel, Ultimo Press, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
FITZGERALD, Deborah, Her Sunburnt Country: The extraordinary literary life of Dorothea Mackellar, Simon & Schuster, 459/17, Susan Sheridan
FITZGERALD, Michael, Late: A novel, Transit Lounge, 460/40, Tim Byrne
FLANAGAN, Richard, Question 7, Knopf, 459/9, Catriona Menzies-Pike
FLANNERY, Tim and Emma Flannery, Big Meg: The story of the largest and most mysterious predator that ever lived, Text, 459/56, Danielle Clode
FORD, Richard, Be Mine, Bloomsbury, 456/32, Geordie Williamson
FORD, Thomas H., and Justin Clemens, Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of Terra Nullius, Melbourne University Press, 455/44, Philip Mead
FOSTER, Chrissie with Paul Kennedy, Still Standing, Viking, 453/17, Barney Zwartz
FOULCHER, John, Dancing with Stephen Hawking, Pitt Street Poety, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
FROW, John (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, 452/22, Paul Giles
FUNDER, Anna, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life, Hamish Hamilton, 455/20, Michael Hofmann
GAMIELDIEN, Zeynab, The Scope of Permissibility, Ultimo Press, Rafqa Touma, online only
GARIBALDI, Korey, Impermanent Blackness: The making and unmaking of interracial literary culture in modern America, Princeton University Press, 457/45, Paul Giles
GAWENDA, Michael, My Life as a Jew, Scribe, 460/19, David Trigger
GIBSON, Andrew, J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture, Oxford University Press, 451/22, Sue Kossew
GIBSON, Prudence, The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the Herbarium, NewSouth, 454/53, Danielle Clode
GILLARD, Julia (ed.), Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech, Vintage, 450/24, Kim Rubenstein
GLOVER, Dennis, Thaw, Black Inc., 456/33, Morgan Nunan
GORMAN, Zachary (ed.), The Young Menzies: Success, failure, resilience 1894-1942, Melbourne University Press, 451/16, David Horner
GOUGOULIS, Alaina and Ian See (eds.), Family: Stories of belonging, Text Publishing, 454/26, Michael Winkler
GRACE, Paul, Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain’s first atomic test in Australia and the legacy that remains, Hachette, 458/47, Elizabeth Tynan
GRAHAM, Jillian, Inner Song: A biography of Margaret Sutherland, Miegunyah Press, 453/38, Kay Dreyfus
GRANT, Stan, The Queen is Dead: The time has come for a reckoning, Fourth Estate, 455/26, Malcolm Allbrook
GRENVILLE, Kate, Restless Dolly Maunder, Text Publishing, 457/33, Penny Russell
GRIFFITHS, Madison, Tissue, Ultimo Press, 456/60, Caroline de Costa
GUIAO, Jordan, Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it, Monash University Publishing, 453/54, Joshua Krook
GUILLORY, John, Professing Criticism, University of Chicago Press, 454/39, Paul Giles
HANKS, Tom, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Hutchinson Heinemann, 454/34, Jordan Prosser
HANNAN, Victoria, Marshmallow, Hachette, 451/30, Debra Adelaide
HARFORD, Lesbia, Selected Poems, Text Publishing, 457/52, Rose Lucas
HASLUCK, Nicholas, Che’s Last Embrace, Arcadia, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
HAUGEN, Frances, The Power of One: Blowing the whistle on Facebook, Hodder & Stoughton, 457/21, Kieran Pender
HEMMER, Nicole, Partisans: The conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s, Basic Books, 450/28, Dominic Kelly
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Ragged Disclosures, Recent Work Press, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
HEUSER, Beatrice, War: A genealogy of Western ideas and practices, Oxford University Press, 451/53, Philip Dwyer
HIGGIE, Jennifer, The Mirror and the Pallette: Rebellion, revolution and resilience: 500 years of women’s self-portraits, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 450/52, Julie Ewington
HIGGS, Annette, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, Vintage, 456/31, Kerryn Goldsworthy
HILL, Anthony, The Investigators, Michael Joseph, 452/38, Stephen Knight
HILL, Barry, Eggs for Keeps: Poetry reviews and other praise, Arcadia, 450/38, Geordie Williamson
HOBBS, Harry and George Williams, How to Rule Your Own Country: The weird and wonderful world of micronations, NewSouth, 450/23, Frank Bongiorno
HOBSON, Ben, The Death of John Lacey, Allen & Unwin, 452/38, Stephen Knight
HOGAN, Dan, Secret Third Thing, Cordite, 460/50, J. Taylor Bell
HOLMES À COURT, Simon, The Big Teal, Monash University Publishing, 450/20, Dennis Altman
HOPKIN, Michael (ed.), 2020: Reckoning with power and privilege, Thames & Hudson, 452/30, Joel Deane
HORNE, Craig, Line of Blood: The truth of Alfred Howitt, Melbourne Books, 458/36, Jason M. Gibson
HOULDEN, Jacquie and Seamus Spark (eds.), Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok, Monash University Publishing, 451/55, Francesca Sasnaitis
HOYER, Katja, Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, Allen Lane, 455/19, Sheila Fitzpatrick
HUGGINS, Rita and Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination, Aboriginal Studies Press, 458/31, Julie Andrews
INOON, Ayesha, Untethered, HQ Fiction, Rafqa Touma, online only
JACK, Richard Morton, Nick Drake: The life, Hachette, 459/55, Barnaby Smith
JACKSON, Davina, Australian Architecture: A history, Allen & Unwin, 451/37, Philip Goad
JAMES, Harold, Seven Crashes: The economic crises that shaped globalisation, Yale University Press, 459/23, Stuart Kells
JANSON, Julie, Madukka the River Serpent, UWA Publishing, 457/28, Debra Adelaide
JAY, Mike, Psychonauts: Drugs and the making of the modern mind, Yale University Press, 457/57, Ben Brooker
JOHNSON, Susan, Aphrodite’s Breath: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 454/23, Jacqueline Kent
JOHNSTON, Michelle, Tiny Uncertain Miracles, Fourth Estate, 451/34, Naama Grey-Smith
JONES, Jill, Acrobat Music: New and selected poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 457/55, Cassandra Atherton
JORDAN, Toni, Prettier if She Smiled More, Hachette, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
JOSE, Nicholas, The Idealist, Giramondo, 459/26, Paul Giles
KALAGIAN BLUNT, Ashley, Dark Mode, Ultimo Press, 451/28, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
KELLS, Stuart, MUP: A centenary history, Miegunyah Press, 452/20, Frank Bongiorno
KEMP, Peter, Retroland: A reader’s guide to the dazzling diversity of modern fiction, Yale, 460/47, Andrew van der Vlies
KENEALLY, Tom, Fanatic Heart, Vintage, 450/34, Ronan McDonald
KENNY, Paul D., Why Populism? Political strategy from Ancient Greece to the present, Cambridge University Press, 457/16, Ben Wellings
KERINAIUA, Mavis and Laura Rademaker, Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up, NewSouth, 458/35, John J. Bradley
KERTZER, David I., The Pope at War: The secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, Oxford University Press, 451/56, Miles Pattenden
KILLAR, Ashley, Cranko: The man and his choreography, Matador, 452/24, Lee Christofis
KING, Richard, Here Be Monsters: Is technology reducing our humanity?, Monash University Publishing, 456/61, Robyn Arianrhod
KINSELLA, John, Collected Poems: Volume One (1980-2005), The Ascension of Sheep, UWAP, 454/50, John Hawke
KINSELLA, John, Collected Poems: Volume Two (2005-2014), Harsh Hakea, UWAP, 454/50, John Hawke
KLEIN, Naomi, Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world, Allen Lane, 459/20, Zora Simic
KNEEN, Kris, Fat Girl Dancing, Text Publishing, 454/22, Diane Stubbings
KRISHNAN, Nikhil, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford 1900-1960, Random House, 457/59, Karen Green
KRUZE, Kevin M. and Julian E. Zelizer, Myth America: Historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past, Basic Books, 452/12, Marilyn Lake
KWON, Silvia Vincent & Sien, Macmillan, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
LANGTON, Marcia, The Welcome to Country Handbook: A guide to Indigenous Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 458/19, Sandra R. Phillips
LEACH, Roland, Cuttlefish: Western Australian poets, Sunline Press, 459/42, Brenda Walker
LEGGE, Kate, Infidelity and Other Affairs, Thames & Hudson, 451/21, Johanna Leggatt
LOHREY, Amanda, The Conversation, Text, 459/27, Felicity Plunkett
LOWELL, Robert, Memoirs, Allen & Unwin, 456/26, David Mason
LUBIS, Todung Mulya, War on Corruption: An Indonesian experience, Melbourne University Press, 456/17, Howard Dick
LUCAS, Madelaine, Thirst for Salt, Allen & Unwin, 452/41, Maria Takolander
LUCAS, Rose, Increments of the Everyday, Puncher & Wattmann, 455/48, Felicity Plunkett
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Edenglassie, UQP, 458/53, Jeanine Leane
LUI-CHIVIZHE, Leah, Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people, Miegunyah Press, 451/42, Ben Silverstein
LUMBY, Catharine, Frank Moorhouse: A life, Allen & Unwin, 459/19, Kerryn Goldsworthy
MACDONALD, Helen, and Sin Blaché, Prophet, Jonathen Cape, 458/57, J. R. Burgmann
MACINTYRE, Raina, Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity, NewSouth, 454/45, Ben Brooker
MAGEE, Paul, Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought, Rowman & Littlefield, 457/49, Patrick Flanery
MALCOLM, Janet, Still Pictures, Text Publishing, 452/14, Georgina Arnott
MALCOLM, Lynne, All in the Mind, ABC Books, 457/58, Nick Haslam
MALING, Caitlin, Spore or Seed, Fremantle Press, 455/48, Felicity Plunkett
MANDELBAUM, Michael, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak, power, great power, superpower, hyperpower, Oxford University Press, 452/11, Emma Shortis
MARKS, Russell, Black Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 451/10, David Kearns
MARNEY, Ellie, Some Shall Break, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
MARR, David, Killing for Country: A family story, Black Inc., 458/14, Mark McKenna
MARSH, Walter, Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch Empire, Scribe, 456/20, Jonathan Green
MASON, Brett, Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK, NewSouth, Nick Hordern, online only
MASON, Brett, Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world, NewSouth, 450/29, Julia Horne
MASON, David, Incarnation and Metamorphosis: Can literature change us?, Paul Dry Books, 453/53, Geoff Page
McCAFFRIE, Brendan, Michelle Grattan and Chris Wallace (eds.), The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022, UNSW Press, 454/14, Patrick Mullins
McCARTHY, Cormac, Stella Maris, Picador, 450/33, Shannon Burns
McCARTHY, Cormac, The Passenger, Picador, 450/33, Shannon Burns
McCLELLAND, Roanna, The Comforting Weight of Water, Wakefield Press, 457/30, J.R. Burgmann
McCOOEY, David, The Book of Falling, Upswell, 452/50 and 454/47, Judith Bishop
McGRATH, Ann, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy, Everywhere: Australia and the language of deep history, UNSW Press, 458/20, Leonie Stevens
McKAY, Laura Jean, Gunflower, Scribe, 460/43, Susan Midalia
McKENZIE, Nick, Crossing the Line, Hachette, 456/11, Kevin Foster
McMULLIN, Ross, Life So Full of Promise: Further biographies of Australia’s lost generation, Scribe, 454/15, Raelene Francis
McPHEE-BROWN, Laura, Little Plum, Text Publishing, 451/31, Debra Adelaide
McPHERSON, Kira, Higher Education, Ultimo Press, 451/30, Debra Adelaide
MEAD, Rachel, The Art of Breaking Ice, Affirm Press, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
MEEHAN, Michael, An Ungrateful Instrument, Transit Lounge, 453/33, Graham Strahle
MILDENHALL, Kate, The Hummingbird Effect, Scribner, 456/28, Cassandra Atherton
MILLER, Alex, A Brief Affair, Allen & Unwin, 450/32, Penny Russell
MILLER, Alex, A Kind of Confession: The writer’s private world, Allen & Unwin, 460/18, Brenda Walker
MILLER, Suzie, Prima Facie, Picador, 460/38, Diane Stubbings
MITCHELL, Heather, Everything and Nothing: A memoir, 456/24, Tim Byrne
MITCHELL, James, Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940–1942, Hardie Grant, 460/53, Michael McKernan
MOLLOY, Shannon, You Made Me This Way, Fourth Estate, 452/19, Anders Villani
MOORE, Lorrie, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Faber, 457/34, Kirsten Tranter
MORRISSEY, John, Firelight, Text, 458/52, Claire G. Coleman
MOULLAKIS, Joyce and Chris Wright, The Millionaires’ Factory: The inside story of how Macquarie became a global giant, Allen & Unwin, 453/18, Michael Easson
NEEDHAM, Kylie, Girl in a Pink Dress, Penguin, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
NEILL, Sam, Did I Ever Tell You This? A memoir, Text Publishing, 456/24, Tim Byrne
NISBET, Gemma, The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty, Upswell, 460/56, Francesca Sasnaitis
NIX, Garth, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
NOVAK, Genevieve, Crushing, HarperCollins, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
NOWRA, Louis, Sydney: A biography, NewSouth, 450/57, Gay Bilson
O’FAIRCHEALLAIGH, Ciaran, Indigenous Peoples and Mining: A global perspective, OUP, 459/33, Deanna Kemp
O’GRADY, Emily, Feast, Allen & Unwin, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
O’KEEFE, Angela, The Sitter, University of Queensland Press, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
ODELL, Jenny, Saving Time: Discovering a life beyond the clock, Bodley Head, 453/46, Tim McMinn
OGILVIE, Sarah, The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary, Chatto & Windus, 459/46, Ian Britain
OLUBAS, Brigitta, Shirley Hazzard: A writing Life, Virago, 451/18, Frances Wilson
ORD, Mandy, Bulk Nuts, Gazebo Books, 460/44, Bernard Caleo
PAGE, Geoff, 101 Poems: 2011-2021, Pitt Street Poetry, Paul Hetherington, online only
PALMER, Shannyn, Unmaking Angas Downs: History and myth on a Central Australian pastoral station, Melbourne University Press, 451/13, Eleanor Hogan
PAMUK, Orhan (translated by Ekin Oklap), Nights of Plague, Hamish Hamilton, 451/32, Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam
PATEL, Zoya, Once A Stranger, Hachette, Rafqa Touma, online only
PATERSON, Susan, Where Light Meets Water, Simon & Schuster, 453/34, Susan Midalia
PETERS-LITTLE, Frances, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta man, Hardie Grant Publishing, 454/30, Philip Morrissey
PHILLIPS, Carl, My Trade Is Mystery: Seven meditations from a life in writing, Yale University Press, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
PHILPS, Alan, The Red Hotel: The untold story of Stalin’s disinformation war, Headline, 458/45, Sheila Fitzpatrick
PICK-GOSLAR, Hannah, with Dina Kraft, My Friend Anne Frank, Ebury Publishing, 457/46, Tali Lavi
PIM, Keiron, Endless Flight: The life of Joseph Roth, Granta, 451/48, Joachim Redner
PINCKNEY, Darryl, Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, riverrun, 452/16, Peter Rose
PITTOCK, Murray, Scotland: The global history – 1603 to the present, Yale University Press, 450/56, Gordon Pentland
PORTER, Max, Shy, Faber, 453/35, Diane Stubbings
PRETTY, Ron, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 453/51, Sam Ryan
PRIOR, Robin, Conquer We Must: A military history of Britain 1914-1945, Yale University Press, 456/16, Joan Beaumont
RADFORD, Ron, John Glover: Patterdale farm and the revelation of the Australian landscape, Ovata Press, 457/62, Anne Gray
REES, Peter, I am Tim: Life, politics, and beyond, MUP, 459/44, Joshua Black
REGIS, Ed, Science, Secrecy and the Smithsonian: The strange history of the Pacific Ocean biological survey, Oxford University Press, 453/12, Billy Griffiths
RICHARDS, Michael, A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press, National Library of Australia, 451/25, Brenda Niall
RILEY, Charlotte Lydia, Imperial Island: A history of empire in modern Britain, Bodley Head, 460/23, Jon Piccini
RILEY, Erin, A Real Piece of Work: A memoir in essays, Viking, 458/49, Yves Rees
RISEMAN, Noah, Transgender Australia: A history since 1910, Melbourne University Press, Jack Nicholls, online only
RITCHIE, Brendan, Eta Draconis, UWA Publishing, 457/30, J.R. Burgmann
ROBIN, Libby, What Birdo Is That? A field guide to bird people, Melbourne University Publishing, 454/53, Peter Monkhurst
ROBINSON, Jennifer and Keina Yoshida, How Many More Women? Exposing how to the law silences women, Allen & Unwin, 450/24, Kim Rubenstein
ROYAL, Autumn, The Drama Student, Giramondo, 455/50, Chris Arnold
RUDENKO, Serhii, Zelensky: A biography, Polity Press, 451/14, Nick Hordern
RUSHDIE, Salman, Victory City, Jonathan Cape, 451/29, Geordie Williamson
RUSSELL, Catherine, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck, University of Illinois Press, 457/61, Felicity Chaplin
RUSSELL, Meg and Lisa James, The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit, Oxford University Press, 454/18, Ben Wellings
SALES, Leigh, Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism, Scribner, 458/44, Patrick Mullins
SARTRE, Jean-Paul (translated by Carol Cosman, edited by Joseph S. Catalano), The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, an abridged edition, University of Chicago Press, 453/43, Brian Nelson
SAVILLE, Margot, The Teal Revolution: Inside the movement changing Australian politics, Hardie Grant Books, 450/20, Dennis Altman
SAVVA, Niki, Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise, Scribe, 450/14, Mark Kenny
SAYER, Mandy, Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team, NewSouth, 450/60, Desley Deacon
SCOTT, Kate, Compulsion, Hamish Hamilton, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
SCOTT, Ronnie, Shirley, Hamish Hamilton, 452/40, Morgan Nunan
SCRIMSHAW, Danielle, She and Her Pretty Friend, Ultimo Press, 455/55, Susan Sheridan
SILVERSTEIN, Jordana, Cruel Care: A history of children at our borders, Monash University Publishing, 456/23, Amy Nethery
SIMONS, John, Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life, Sydney University Press, 455/51, Danielle Clode
SIMONS, Margaret, Tanya Plibersek: On her own terms, Black Inc., 452/29, Patrick Mullins
SINGER, Hayley, Abandon Every Hope, Upswell, 451/59, Ben Brooker
SMITH, Aisling, After the Rain, Hachette, 455/40, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
SMITH, Dominic, Return to Valetto, Allen & Unwin, 454/35, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SMITH, Fred, The Sparrows of Kabul, Puncher & Wattmann, 460/20, Kevin Foster
SMITH, Simon, A Man of Honour, Echo Publishing, 452/38, Stephen Knight
SODEN, Oliver, Masquerade: The lives Of Noël Coward, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 456/52, Paul Kildea
SONENSCHER, Michael, Capitalism: The story behind the word, Princeton University Press, 455/32, Knox Peden
SPICER, Tracey, Mand-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, Simon & Schuster, 459/50, Ruby O’Connor
STAVANGER, David, Radhiah Chowdhury, and Mohammad Awad (eds), Admissions: Voices within mental health, Upswell, James Dunk, online only
STELL, Marion, The Bodyline Fix: How women saved cricket, University of Queensland Press, 451/61, Diane Stubbings
STERN, Philip J., Empire, Incorporated: The corporations that built British colonialism, Harvard, 458/46, Clinton Fernandes
STINSON, Emmett, Murnane, Miegunyah Press, 456/53, Shannon Burns
STONE, Alison, Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press, 454/42, Karen Green
SZE, Gillian, quite night think, ECW Press, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
TAYLOR, Andrew, Shore Lines, Pitt Street Poetry, 456/57, Geoff Page
THOMPSON, Michael, How to be Remembered, Allen & Unwin, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
TILLERS, Imants, Credo, Giramondo, 451/39, Sophie Knezic
TOYNBEE, Polly, An Uneasy Inheritance: My family and other radicals, Atlantic, 459/34, James Antoniou
TREDINNICK, Mark, Walking Underwater, Pitt Street Poetry, 450/46, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
TRUMBLE, Angus, Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years, La Trobe University Press, 457/44, Ian Britain
TSIOLKAS, Christos, The In-Between, Allen & Unwin, 459/28, Shannon Burns
TURNER, Graeme, The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what can be done about it, UQP, 458/60, Zora Simic
TURNER, Marion, The Wife of Bath, Princeton University Press, 456/56, Morag Fraser
TWYFORD-MOORE, Sam, Cast Mates: Australian actors in Hollywood and at home, NewSouth, 456/64, Jordan Prosser
VAROUFAKIS, Yanis, Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism, Bodley Head, 459/22, Nathan Holler
VILLANI, Anders, Totality, Recent Works Press, 450/39, Maria Takolander
VINCENT, Eve, Who Cares? Life on welfare in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 452/45, Shannon Burns
WALLACE, Chris, Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers, UNSW Press, 452/27, James Walter
WALSH, Toby, Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI, La Trobe University Press, 451/60, Dante Aloni
WARD, Stuart, Untied Kingdom: A global history of the end of Britain, Cambridge University Press, 456/13, Gordon Pentland
WATSON, Don, The Passion of Private White, Scribner, 450/11, Tom Griffiths
WESLEY, Michael, Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, Melbourne University Press, 455/46, Ceridwen Spark
WESLEY, Michael, Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian life, La Trobe University Press, 456/21, John Byron
WILLIAMS, Pip, The Bookbinder of Jericho, Affirm Press, 453/31, Jane Sullivan
WILSON, Sean, Gemini Falls, Affirm Press, Samuel Bernard, online only
WINDSOR, Gerard, On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world, Little, Brown, 453/52, Gerard Windsor
WINTER, Tim, The Silk Road: Connecting histories and futures, Oxford University Press, 452/49, Robert Wellington
WOHLLEBEN, Peter (translated by Jane Billinghurst), The Power of Trees: How ancient forests can save us if we let them, Black Inc., 455/54, Ruby Ekkel
WOLF, Misbah, Carapace, Vagabond Press, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
WOLFF, Michael, The Fall: The end of the Murdoch Empire, The Bridge Street Press, 460/24, Walter Marsh
WOLPE, Bruce, Trump’s Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term, Allen & Unwin, 457/14, Emma Shortis
WOMERSLEY, Chris, Ordinary Gods and Monsters, Picador, 457/32, Jennifer Mills
WOOD, Charlotte, Stone Yard Devotional, Allen & Unwin, 460/39, Jennifer Mills
WOOD, Michael, Marcel Proust, OUP, 459/54, Andrea Goldsmith
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, West Girls, Scribe, 458/54, Mindy Gill
WRIGHT, Alexis, Praiseworthy, Giramondo, 452/37, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
WYNN SCHWARTZ, Selby, After Sappho, Text Publishing, 45/42, Ruth McHugh-Dillon
YATES, Dean, Line in the Sand, Macmillan, 455/45, Kevin Foster
YOUNG, Sally, Media Monsters: The transformation of Australia’s newspaper empires, UNSW Press, 455/15, Patrick Mullins
YU, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, But the Girl, Hamish Hamilton, 458/56, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyan
ZELENSKY, Volodymyr, A Message From Ukraine, Hutchinson Heinemann, 451/14, Nick Hordern
ZYGAR, Mikhail, War and Punishment: The story of Russian oppression and Ukrainian resistance, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 457/20, Nick Hordern
Π.O., The Tour, Giramondo, 459/36, Francesca Sasnaitis
2023 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Commentary
GARDINER, Thea, ‘Women philanthropists in our galleries’, online only
LOGAN, Cameron, ‘Architecture and the new national cultural policy’, online only
Maria Callas, Ian Dickson, online only
Festivals
2023 Sydney International Piano Competition Opening Gala, Malcolm Gillies, online only
Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Des Cowley, online only
Film/Television/Streaming
A Haunting in Venice (Twentieth Century), Philippa Hawker, online only
Aftersun (Kismet), Jo Stubbings, online only
Alcarràs (Palace Films), Stefan Solomon, online only
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Madman Entertainment), Anne Rutherford, online only
Asteroid City (Universal Pictures), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Beau is Afraid (Roadshow), Jordan Prosser, online only
Broker (Madman Entertainment), Michael Sun, online only
Caravaggio Shadow (Italian Film Festival), Angela Viora, online only
Corsage (Vendetta Films), James Cleverley, online only
Dalíland (Kismet), 456/66, Philippa Hawker
EO (Hi Gloss Entertainment), Anthony Frajman, online only
Godland (Palace Films), Stefan Solomon, online only
John Farnham (Beyond Oz), Joshua Black, online only
Killers of the Flower Moon (Paramount), 459/63, Philippa Hawker
La Chimera (Italian Film Festival), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Limbo (Bunya Productions), Anne Rutherford, online only
Maestro (Netflix Original), Jordan Prosser, online only
Napoleon (Sony), Philippa Hawker, online only
November (Palace Films), 454/58, Felicity Chaplin
One Fine Morning (Palace Films), Philippa Hawker, online only
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures Australia), Jordan Prosser, online only
Past Lives (StudioCanal), 458/64, Michael Sun
Reality (Kismet), Stefan Solomon, online only
Run Rabbit Run (Netflix Original), Anthony Frajman, online only
Saint Omer (Palace Films), 455/60, Anwen Crawford
Shayda (Madman Entertainment), Anne Rutherford, online only
Sick of Myself (Static Vision), Stefan Solomon, online only
TÁR (Universal Pictures Australia), 451/64. Jordan Prosser
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures), 450/67, Jordan Prosser
The Old Oak (Palace), Stefan Solomon, online only
The Son (Transmission Films), Tim Byrne, online only
The Teachers’ Lounge (German Film Festival), James Cleverley, online only
The Whale (Madman Entertainment), Jo Stubbings, online only
The Zone of Interest (A24), 460/59, Diane Stubbings
Un Couple (MIFF), Anthony Frajman, online only
Music
All Rise (Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Des Cowley, online only
An Australian Songbook (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Chris Reid, online only
Australian Chamber Orchestra (Ukaria Festival), Graham Strahle, online only
Juan Diego Flórez in Recital (Arts Centre Melbourne), 460/58, Peter Rose
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (Australian World Orchestra), Malcolm Gillies, online only
Mahler’s Seventh (London Symphony Orchestra), 454/59, Michael Shmith
Melbourne Jazz Co-Operative (Melbourne Recital Centre), Des Cowley, online only
Midsummer Dreams(The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra), Malcolm Gillies, online only
Mozart and Beethoven Concertos (Melbourne Chamber Orchestra), Peter Tregear, online only
Ngapa William Cooper (Adelaide Festival), 452/59, Graham Strahle
Sibyl (Sydney Opera House), Michael Halliwell, online only
Steven Osborne (Ukaria Cultural Centre), Graham Strahle, online only
Opera
A Deep Black Sleep (IHOS Amsterdam), Sarah Day, online only
Adriana Lecouvreur (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Antarctica (Sydney Chamber Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Biographica (Theatre Works), Peter Tregear, online only
Das Rheingold (Royal Opera House), 459/61, John Allison
Das Rheingold Die Walküre (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Das Rheingold Die Walküre (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Das Rheingold (Royal Opera House), John Allison, online only
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Melbourne Opera), 453/58, Peter Rose
Die Frau ohne Schatten and Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper), Peter Rose, online only
Earth. Voice. Body (Sydney Chamber Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Idomeneo (Victorian Opera and Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Juan Diego Flórez in Recital (Castiglione Arts & Culture), Peter Rose, online only
La Gioconda (Opera Australia), 457/64, Peter Rose
Maria Stuarda (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Michael Fabiano in Concert (Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Otello, Hamlet, War and Peace (Bayerische Staatsoper), Michael Halliwell, online only
Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Siegfried Götterdämmerung ½ (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Tannhäuser (Opera Australia), Michael Shmith, online only
The Makropulos Case (Opéra National de Paris), Peter Rose, online only
The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Line Productions), 455/59, Kirk Dodd
Bernhardt/Hamlet (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings, online only
Death of a Salesman (Her Majesty’s Theatre), 458/65, Diane Stubbings
Do Not Go Gentle (Sydney Theatre Company), 455/62, Clare Monagle
Escaped Alone (Melbourne Theatre Company), 457/65, Diane Stubbings
Exiles (Bloomsday in Melbourne), Ronan McDonald, online only
Far Away (Patalog Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only
Flake (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), Ben Brooker, online only
Happy Days (Melbourne Theatre Company), 454/63, Ronan McDonald
Into the Woods (Belvoir St Theatre), Ian Dickson, online only
Julia (Sydney Theatre Company), 453/58, Clare Monagle
Julius Caesar (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Melbourne Theatre Company), 459/60, Ian Dickson
Loaded (Malthouse Theatre), Ben Brooker, online only
Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare), 452/56, Kirk Dodd
My Sister Jill (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings, online only
Nosferatu (Malthouse Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Oil (Sydney Theatre Company), Patrick Lau, , online only
Orlando (Antipodes Theatre Company), Guy Webster, online only
Prima Facie (Melbourne Theatre Company), 451/65, Diane Stubbings
Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare), Kirk Dodd, online only
The Chairs (Redline Productions), 458/67, Ian Dickson
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? (Sydney Theatre Company), Ian Dickson, online only
The Master & Margarita (Belvoir St Theatre), Ian Dickson, online only
The Poison of Polygamy (La Boite and Sydney Theatre Company), 455/58, Josh Stenberg
The Seagull (Sydney Theatre Company), Clare Monagle, online only
The Tempest (Sydney Theatre Company), 450/61, Kirk Dodd
What If If Only (Melbourne Theatre Company), 457/65, Diane Stubbings
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 460/60, Ben Brooker
Wittenoom (Red Stitch), Tim Byrne, online only
Worstward Ho (Victorian Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only
Visual Arts
Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media (The Art Gallery of South Australia), 452/54, Patrick Flanery
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium (Heide Museum of Modern Art), 450/62, Sophie Knezic
Catherine Opie: Binding Ties (Heide), Kelly Gellatly, online only
Imagine … the Wonder of Picture Books (State Library of New South Wales), Margaret Robson Kett, online only
Kandinsky (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 460/62, Roger Benjamin
Melbourne Now 2023 (National Gallery of Victoria), 453/63, Sophie Knezic
Peter Tyndall (Buxton Contemporary), 451/66, Jarrod Zlatic
Photography Real and Imagined (National Gallery of Victoria), Alison Stieven-Taylor, online only
Pre-Raphaelites Drawings & Watercolours (Art Gallery of Ballarat), Christopher Menz, online only
Radical Utopia An archeology of a creative city (RMIT Gallery), Jarrod Zlatic, online only
Rembrandt – True to Life (National Gallery of Victoria), 456/67, Roger Benjamin
Sydney Modern (Art Gallery of New South Wales), Julie Ewington, online only
SYNERGY (Drill Hall Gallery), 454/56, Saskia Beudel
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (National Gallery of Australia), Saskia Beudel, online only
Thin Skin (Monash University Museum of Art), Jarrod Zlatic, online only
Essays and Commentary
ALTMAN, Dennis, ‘Frozen between despair and denial: The role of Australian Jews in an intractable conflict’, 456/8
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘A referendum in trouble: Race, rights and history talk in 1967 and 2023’, 455/10
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘Turning a blind eye: The referendum and the burden of history’, 460/11
BOYCE, James, ‘Soul shifts: Reflections on Richard Flanagan’s Question 7’, 460/27
CASTAN, Melissa and Lynette Russell, ‘Ancient sovereignty shining through: A Voice to parliament, not a Voice in parliament’, 458/9
CORBETT, Jack, ‘Statehood á la carte: Sovereignty games in the Pacific Islands’, 455/23
CURRAN, James, ‘Exorcising the ghosts: Australia’s new, old foreign policy’, 452/8
CURRAN, James, ‘Stanner in reverse: A response to Clare Wright’, 457/13
DEANE, Joel, ‘A maddening country: The long political shadow of John Howard’, 460/15
DEANE, Joel, ‘The Great Australian Intemperance: Thoughts on a time of unbottled rage’, 457/9
DICKSON, Ian, ‘Letter from London’, 450/47
DINIĆ, Jelena, ‘‘Come closer and listen’: A tribute to Charles Simic (1938 – 2023)’, 459/47
EWINGTON, Julie, ‘Lyrical Layers at AGNSW: A new landmark building in Sydney’, 452/32
HAMILTON, Debi, ‘The tyranny of sound: The world’s addiction to background noise’, 452/25
HODA, Rashina, ‘A tale of two species: Balancing new technology and ethical considerations’, 459/51
HOLMAN, Zoe, ‘“Call it a revolution”: From falling veils to a failing regime’, 450/8
KAVANAGH, Siobhan, ‘The Morning Belongs to Us’, 459/38
KENNY, Mark, ‘Labor’s year in clover: The challenges facing Peter Dutton’, 454/9
KONISHI, Shino, Julie Andrews, Odette Best, Brenda L. Croft, Steve Kinnane, Greg Lehman, and Uncle John Whop, ‘Who’s your mob?: An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography’, 458/24
LAIDLAW, Zoë, ‘‘You take um up my land for me’: An Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne’, 458/28
LEY, James, ‘‘Not like an arrow, but a boomerang’: Ralph Ellison and literary humanism’, 460/45
LEY, James, ‘An obscure prodigy: J.M. Coeztee’s Life and Time of Michael K at forty’, 456/50
LILLEY, Kate, ‘Intricacies of aliveness: A personal tribute to John Tranter (1943-2023)’, 454/24
LOGAN, Cameron, ‘Beyond real estate: The role of architecture in cultural policy’, 452/57
LYNCH, Timothy J., ‘Enough already!: Post-Trump America returns to the centre’, 450/17
MANDERSON, Desmond, ‘Yunupingu’s song: Constitution as acts of vision, not of division’, 457/24
MILLS, Jennifer, ‘A revival meeting at the Espy: Labor’s new National Cultural Policy’, 451/8
MYERS, David N., ‘Dem-o-krat-yah now!: The egregious erosion of democracy in Israel’, 453/8
NILSSON, Ebony, ‘“A happy white men’s club”: The Australian Labor Party’s uneasy history with immigration’, 455/29
OGILVIE, Sarah, ‘The Melbourne Dictionary People: Active service to the mother tongue’, 457/40
PENTLAND, Gordon, ‘Parlour games: Britain and the anaesthesia of nostalgia’, 453/21
ROLPH, David, ‘Self-inflicted wounds: A vindication of investigative journalism’, 455/17
ROLPH, David, ‘Who blinks first: Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey’, 454/11
TWOMEY, Anne, ‘Voiceless in Australia: Will we ever have another referendum?’, 460/9
WRIGHT, Alexis, ‘The sovereign time of Country: Living in the pulse and heartbeat of an infinite clock’, 458/12
ZUBRZYCKI, John, ‘Politics by other means: India addresses centuries of humiliation’, 454/20
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ELLIS, Tracy, ‘Flow States’, 453/24
VINCENT, Bridget, ‘Child Adjacent’, 454/27
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ANDREWS, Chris, ‘Loss-invaded Catalogue’, 450/41
ARNOLD, Chris, ‘Running Up That Bill’, 450/41
CAHILL, Michelle, ‘Field Notes for an Albatross Palimpsest’, 450/44
DISNEY, Dan, ‘periferal, fantasmal’, 450/43
TOLCHINSKY, Raisa, ‘Abiquiu, New Mexico’ , 450/40
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
BEL, Winter, ‘Black Wax’, 456/36
HEATH, Rowan, ‘The Mannequin’, 456/41
KHAN, Uzma Aslam, ‘Our Own Fantastic’, 456/46
Interviews
Open Page
ALEXANDRA, Belinda, 456/62
DALGARNO, Paul, 450/51
HEISS, Anita, 458/30
JOSE, Nicholas, 459/57
McKENZIE, Nick, 455/56
McMULLIN, Ross, 454/49
WILLIAMS, Pip, 452/52
Poet of the Month
DISNEY, Dan, 453/49
JACKSON, Andy, 457/56
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 456/59
Publisher of the Month
HUGHES, Martin, 453/56
SCOTT, Barry, 451/62
SMITH, Yasmin, 458/41
Critic of the Month
STUBBINGS, Diane, 459/37
Backstage
ARCHER, Robyn, 454/61
EVANS, Peter, 457/67
MACKENZIE, Ruth, 460/61
MORSE, Helen, 455/63
Poetry
Poems
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘Hawkesbury’, 451/49
BRADY, Andrea, ‘Canterbury Bell’, 457/53
COLEMAN, Aidan, ‘Metric’, 459/35
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘If Looks Could Kill’, 460/14
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, 451/49
FARELL, Michael, ‘Christmas In Brogo’, 453/39
FLEMING, Joan, ‘Coins, Glass, Nails, Pottery, Cinders’, 453/45
HOLT, L.K., ‘Nina in the Hag Mask’, 456/55
JANSON, Julie, ‘Kurraarr Far Country’, 451/41
JANSON, Julie, ‘Minyerri (now marked for fracking)’, 458/33
JOHNSON, Frances A., ‘Painted Weather’, 454/51
KINSELLA, John, ‘Apotheoses and the Hölderlin Monument, Old Botanical Gardens, Tübingen’, 460/28
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Reading the Conditions’, 455/27
MEAD, Philip, ‘Déjà Rêvé’, 452/21
O’BRIEN, Damen, ‘The Pelican Feeder’, 451/57
PAGE, Geoff, ‘Endings’, 459/21
SALOM, Philip, ‘A Vladimir Taxonomy’, 456/25
SAMUELS, Lisa, ‘Dise’, 455/43
SAUNDERS, Kirli, ‘Go Rogue’, 458/23
VILLANI, Anders, ‘Wallpaper’, 457/47
WEBSTER, H.R., ‘Death by Drowning’, 459/45
Surveys
Books of the Year
ATTWOOD, Bain, 460/31
BIRCH, Tony, 460/33
BONGIORNO, Frank, 460/33
BRADLEY, James, 460/36
COWLEY, Des, 460/36
DAVIS, Glyn, 460/34
DEANE, Joel, 460/31
GILES, Paul, 460/29
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 460/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 460/34
HAWKE, John, 460/35
HOFMANN, Michael, 460/35
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 460/32
KELLS, Stuart, 460/31
LAKE, Marilyn, 460/36
LEY, James, 460/34
McKENNA, Mark, 460/36
MEAD, Philip, 460/31
MILLS, Jennifer, 460/32
MULLINS, Patrick, 460/32
PENDER, Kieren, 460/35
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 460/32
REES, Yves, 460/33
ROSE, Peter, 460/33
RUSSELL, Lynette, 460/36
RUSSELL, Penny, 460/32
SHORTIS, Emma, 460/32
SILCOX, Beejay, 460/35
SIMIC, Zora, 460/29
STUBBINGS, Diane, 460/33
WALKER, Brenda, 460/36
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 460/33
WILSON, Frances, 460/29
Arts Highlights
ARCHER, Robyn, 450/64
BOWER, Humphrey, 450/66
BROOKER, Ben, 450/65
BYRNE, Tim, 450/64
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 450/65
COWLEY, Des, 450/65
DICKSON, Ian, 450/65
EWINGTON, Julie, 450/64
FORD, Andrew, 450/64
HALLIWELL, Michael, 450/66
KNEZIC, Sophie, 450/66
PROSSER, Jordan, 450/65
ROSE, Peter, 450/66
RUTHERFORD, Anne, 450/65
SHMITH, Michael, 450/64
STUBBINGS, Diane, 450/64
TREGEAR, Peter, 450/66
Tribute
TREGEAR, Peter, ‘Vale Barry Humphries: The great comedian’s love affair with Weimar Germany’, 454/60
Index for 2022: Nos 439–449 & online features
ABR Index 2022
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2022.
2022 Australian Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
AITKEN, Adam, Revenants, Giramondo, 443/50, Toby Davidson
ALBISTON, Jordie, Fifteeners, Puncher & Wattmann, 440/44, Joan Fleming
ALIGHIERI, Dante (translated by D.M. Black), Purgatorio, NYRB Classics, 441/45, Theodore Ell
ALLSOPP, Kimberley, Love and Other Puzzles, HarperCollins, 442/40, Debra Adelaide
ALSOP, Maureen, Pyre, What Books Press, 445/50, Anders Villani
ANDERSON, Clare, Convicts: A global history, Cambridge University Press, 443/55, Briony Neilson
ANDREWS, Rosie, The Leviathan, Raven Books, 443/25, Diane Stubbings
ANDRIESSE, Alex (ed.), The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Review Books, 446/20, Michael Hofmann
ANYIETH, Akuch Kuol, Unknown: A refugee’s story, Text Publishing, online only, Nicholas Bugeja
ARNOTT, Georgina (ed.), Judith Wright: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 442/23, Philip Mead
ARNOTT, Robbie, Limberlost, Text Publishing, 447/38, Jennifer Mills
ASHENDEN, Dean, Telling Tennant’s Story: The strange career of the great Australian silence, Black Inc., 443/16, Kim Mahood
ATHERTON, Cassandra and Paul Hetherington (eds.), The Language in My Tongue: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand poetry, FarFlung Editions, 445/51, David Mason
ATKINS, Brendan, The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch, NewSouth, 449/23, Danielle Clode
ATKINSON, Alan, Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm, NewSouth, 448/8, Penny Russell
ATWOOD, Margaret, Burning Questions: Essays and occasional pieces, 2004–2021, Chatto & Windus, 442/24, Andrea Goldsmith
BACKDERF, Derf, Kent State, Abrams ComicArts, 439/24, Bernard Caleo
BACON, Eugen, Danged Black Thing, Transit Lounge, 443/31, Cassandra Atherton
BAMSTON, Troy, Bob Hawke: Demons and destiny, Viking, 441/12, Patrick Mullins
BARNETT, Katy and Jeremy Gans, Guilty Pigs: The weird and wonderful history of animal law, La Trobe University Press, 442/12, Sophie Riley
BEARD, Mary, Twelve Caesars: Images of power from the ancient world to the modern, Princeton University Press, 439/19, Alastair J.L. Blanshard
BEAUMAN, Ned, Venomous Lumpsucker, Hodder & Stoughton, 449/51, J.R Burgmann
BEAUMONT, Joan, Australia’s Great Depression: How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced, Allen & Unwin, 442/17, Benjamin Huf
BEECH, Isobel, Sunbathing, Allen & Unwin, 445/27, Georgia White
BEEVOR, Anthony, Russia: Revolution and civil war 1917–1921, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 448/12, Tim McMinn
BEILHARZ, Peter and Sian Supski (eds.), The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre, Melbourne University Press, 447/22, Christina Twomey
BENSON, Simon and Geoff Chambers, Plagued: Australia’s two years of hell – the inside story, Pantera Press, 448/19, Joshua Black
BERNSTEIN, Charles, Topsy-Turvy, Chicago University Press, 440/45, Gig Ryan
BIRD, Carmel, Telltale: Reading writing remembering, Transit Lounge, 446/41, Gregory Day
BIRMINGHAM, Kevin, The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment, Allen Lane, 440/22, Geordie Williamson
BONGIORNO, Frank, Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia, La Trobe University Press, 448/16, James Walter
BOSCO, David, The Poseidon Project: The struggle to govern the world’s oceans, Oxford University Press, 446/51, Killian Quigley
BRADY, Andrea, Poetry and Bondage: A history and theory of lyric constraint, Cambridge University Press, 441/46, John Hawke
BROINOWSKI, Richard, Fact or Fission: The truth about Australia’s nuclear ambitions, Scribe, 447/54, Jessica Urwin
BROOKS, Geraldine, Horse, Hachette, 444/40, Peter Craven
BROPHY, David, China Panic: Australia’s alternative to paranoia and pandering, La Trobe University Press, 442/54, Tim Robertson
BROWN, Pam, Endings & Spacings, Never Never Books, 439/44, Abigail Fisher
BROWN, Pam, Stasis Shuffle, Hunter Publications, 442/48, Chris Arnold
BULLOUGH, Oliver, Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals, Profile Books, 445/55, Kieran Pender
BURNS, Shannon, Childhood, Text Publishing, 447/31, Peter Rose
BURTON, Mirranda, Underground, Allen & Unwin, 439/24, Bernard Caleo
BURTON, Pamela and Meredith Edwards, Persons of Interest: An intimate account of Cecily and John Burton, ANU Press, 446/42, Peter Edwards
CAHILL, James, Tiepolo Blue, Hodder & Stoughton, 446/26, Theodore Ell
CAHILL, Michelle, Daisy & Woolf, Hachette, 444/38, Diane Stubbings
CAMPBELL, Marion May, languish, Upswell Publishing, 445/52, Jennifer Harrison
CARMAN, Luke, An Ordinary Ecstasy, Giramondo, 448/38, Sascha Morrell
CARMICHAEL, Jay, Marlo, Scribe, 445/30, Jay Daniel Thompson
CARR, Helen and Suzannah Lipscomb (eds.), What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 439/16, Billy Griffiths
CARROLL, Steven, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, Fourth Estate, 441/29, Patrick Allington
CARTER. Nanette and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs, Frances Burke: Designer of modern textiles, Miegunyah, 439/49, Christopher Menz
CASEY-HARDY, Anne, Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls, Scribner, 447/50, Alex Cothren
CATALANO, Gary, Collected Prose Poems, Life Before Man, 440/47, Paul Hetherington
CAUSER, Tim and Phillip Schofield (eds.), Panopticon versus New South Wales and Other Writings on Australia, UCL Press, 449/26, Gordon Pentland
CAUSER, Tim, Margot Finn, and Philip Schofield (eds.), Jeremy Bentham and Australia, UCL Press, 449/26, Gordon Pentland
ĆEHIĆ, Ennis, Sadvertising, Vintage, 443/31, Cassandra Atherton
CHAMBERLAIN, Lesley, Rilke: The last inward man, Pushkin Press, 449/24, Alison Croggon
CHARLES, Stephen and Catherine Williams, Keeping Them Honest: The case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms, Scribe, 442/11, Chris Wallace
CHRISTIN, Pierre and Sébastian Verdier (translated by Edward Gauvin), Orwell, Self Made Hero, 443/57, Bernard Caleo
CHRULEW, Matthew and Thom Van Dooren (eds.), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose, Duke University Press, 449/58, Prithvi Varatharajan
CLARK, Anna, Making Australian History, Vintage, 440/13, Penny Russell
CLARK, John, An Eye for Talent: A life at NIDA, Coach House Books, 449/60, Ben Brooker
CLARK, Katerina, Eurasia without Borders: The dream of a leftist literary commons 1919–1943, Harvard University Press, 441/36, Nicholas Jose
CLODE, Danielle, Koala: A life in trees, Black Inc., 445/59, Peter Menkhorst
COLLETTE, Katherine, The Competition, Text Publishing, 442/40, Debra Adelaide
COLLEY, Brendan, The Signal Line, Transit Lounge, 443/29, Naama Grey-Smith
COPER, Ed, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the disinformation age, Allen & Unwin, 442/58, David Ferrell
COTTON, James, The Australians at Geneva: Internationalist diplomacy in the interwar years, Melbourne University Press, 449/16, Michelle Staff
COURTENAY, Christine, Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller, Viking, 449/25, Jacqueline Kent
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie, This Devastating Fever, Ultimo Press, 446/27, Ann-Marie Priest
CURRAN, James, Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear, NewSouth, 445/11, Hugh White
CURRAN, James, Campese: The last of the dream sellers, Scribe, 439/59, Barnaby Smith
DALEY, Paul, Jesustown: A Novel, Allen & Unwin, 446/29, Susan Midalia
DAMASIO, Antonio, Feeling and Knowing: Making minds conscious, Hachette, 440/55, Diane Stubbings
DAVIDSON, Jim, Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland, The Miegunyah Press, 447/30, Graeme Davison
DAVIES, Paul, What’s Eating the Universe? And other cosmic questions, Allen Lane, 440/60, Robyn Arianrhod
DAVIS, Lydia, Essays Two: On Proust, translation, foreign languages, and the City of Arles, Hamish Hamilton, 444/15, Frances Wilson
DAVIS, Rhett, Hovering, Hachette, 440/29, Debra Adelaide
DAY, Gregory, Words Are Eagles: Selected writings on the nature and language of place, Upswell, 444/49, Tom Griffiths
DE MESQUITA, Bruce Bueno, The Invention of Power: Popes, kings, and the birth of the West, Public Affairs, 449/57, Miles Pattenden
DEWEY MORGAN, Lia, Bath Songs, no more poetry, 447/56, Ender Başkan
DINIĆ, Jelena, In the Room with the She Wolf, Wakefield Press, 441/43, Jennifer Harrison
DISNEY, Dan, >>>&||(accelerations and inertias), Vagabond, 439/44, Abigail Fisher
DOOLEY, Gillian, Matthew Flinders: The man behind the map, Wakefield Press, 449/56, Matthew Cunneen
DOVEY, Ceridwen and Eliza Bell, Mothertongues, Hamish Hamilton, Sarah Gory
DREWE, Robert, Nimblefoot, Hamish Hamilton, 445/25, Michael Winkler
DUNN, Daisy, Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars, Hachette, 448/31, Miles Pattenden
DYER, Geoff, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings, Canongate, 448/28, Geordie Williamson
EGAN, Jennifer, The Candy House, Corsair, 442/36, James Bradley
ELL, Theodore, Beginning in Sight, Recent Work Press, 446/47, Rose Lucas
ELLIS, Jack, Home and Other Hiding Places, Ultimo Press, 440/29, Debra Adelaide
ERDRICH, Louise, The Sentence, Hachette, 439/40, Alice Nelson
EVANS, Gareth, Good International Citizenship: The case for decency, Monash University Publishing, 446/19, Alison Broinowski
FAHEY, Diane, Glass Flowers, Puncher & Wattmann, 443/48, Sarah Day
FAINE, Jon, Apollo and Thelma: A true tall tale, Hardie Grant, 445/44, Michael McGirr
FALKINER, Suzanne, Rose: The extraordinary voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who sailed around the world for love, ABC Books, 445/22, Danielle Clode
FAYE, Shon, The Transgender Issue: An argument for justice, Allen Lane, online only, Elizabeth Duck-Chong
FEATHERSTONE, Nigel, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, Ultimo Press, 445/30, Jay Daniel Thompson
FELSCH, Philipp (translated by Tony Crawford), The Summer of Theory: History of a rebellion, Polity, 440/12, Sheila Fitzpatrick
FELSEN, Yuri (translated by Bryan Karetnyk), Deceit, Prototype, 444/44, Kate Crowcroft
FERNANDES, Clinton, Subimperial Power: Australia in the international arena, Melbourne University Press, 449/11, Kevin Foster
FITZGERALD, Else, Everything Feels Like the End of the World, Allen & Unwin, 447/49, Alex Cothren
FITZHARRIS, Lindsey, The Facemaker: One surgeon’s battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I, Allen Lane, 448/14, Michael Winkler
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, Black Inc., 446/12, Luke Stegemann
FLEMING, Joan, Song of Less, Cordite Books, 442/43, Geoff Page
FLETCHER, Ned, The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi, Bridget Williams Books, 449/41, Bain Attwood
FLETT, Alison, Where We Are, Cordite Books, 445/54, Chris Arnold
FLYNN, Chris, Here be Leviathans, University of Queensland Press, 447/49, Alex Cothren
FOGARTY, Lionel, Harvest Lingo: New poems, Giramondo, 446/48, Philip Morrissey
FORD, Thomas H., How to Read a Poem: Seven steps, Routledge, 439/43, David Mason
FRAME, Tom, Veiled Valour: Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations, UNSW Press, 446/17, Kevin Foster
FRANKS, Rachel, An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, NewSouth, 442/20, Penny Russell
FREVERT, Ute, The Politics of Humiliation: A modern history, Oxford University Press, 443/54, Philip Dwyer
GADSBY, Hannah, Ten Steps to Nanette, Allen & Unwin, 443/10, Sarah Balkin
GARNER, Helen, How to End a Story: Diaries 1995 –1998, Text, 439/8, Lisa Gorton
GERSTLE, Gary, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era, Oxford University Press, 448/23, Ian Tyrell
GHOSH, Amitav, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a planet in crisis, John Murray, 442/51, Killian Quigley
GIBIAN, Jane, Beneath the Tree Line, Giramondo, 441/43, Jennifer Harrison
GIBSON, Katerina, Women I Know, Scribner, 449/48, Debra Adelaide
GILLIGAN, James and David A.J. Richards, Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, guilt and violence in Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 441/50, P. Kishore Saval
GILMARTIN, Bridget, Strange Animals, no more poetry, 447/56, Ender Başkan
GÍSLASON, Kári, The Sorrow Stone, University of Queensland Press, 440/33, Dilan Gunawardana
GOLDHILL, Simon, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the literature of late antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 446/56, David T. Runia
GOODFELLOW, Geoff, Blight Street, Walleah Press, 442/43, Geoff Page
GORTON, Lisa, Mirabilia: New poems, Giramondo, 447/54, Anders Villani
GRAY, Robert, Rain Towards Morning: Selected poems and drawings, Puncher & Wattmann, 446/46, Judith Beveridge
GREENWELL, Tom and Chris Bonnor, Waiting for Gonski: How Australia failed its schools, UNSW Press, 443/51, Ilana Snyder
GUNAYDIN, Eda, Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance, NewSouth, 444/33, Mindy Gill
GWYNNE, Phillip, The Break, Penguin Books, 441/31, Ben Chandler
HACKETT, Elizabeth, The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the self in an age of uncertainty, Yale University Press, 446/42, P. Kishore Saval
HARRY, J.S., New and Selected Poems, Giramondo, 442/42, Judith Bishop
HASLUCK, Nicholas, Bench and Book, Arcadia, 446/54, Michael Sexton
HENDRICK, Kate, Fish Out of Water, Text Publishing, 441/31, Ben Chandler
HENDY, David, The BBC: A people’s history, Profile Books, 449/37, Paul Long
HENRY-JONES, Eliza, Salt and Skin, Ultimo Press, 447/44, Katherine Brabon
HETI, Sheila, Pure Colour, Harvill Secker, online only, Georgie Harriss
HILL, David, Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice, William Heinemann, 442/57, Jacqueline Kent
HOBBS, Mia Martin, Return to Vietnam: An oral history of American and Australian veterans’ journeys, Cambridge University Press, 441/18, Peter Edwards
HOBBY, Nathan, The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Miegunyah Press, 444/13, Sheila Fitzpatrick
HOCKEY, Joe with Leo Shanahan, Diplomatic: A Washington memoir, HarperCollins, 443/11, Timothy J. Lynch
HOLBROOK, Carolyn, Lyndon Megarrity and David Lowe (eds.), Lessons from History: Leading historians tackle Australia’s greatest challenges, NewSouth, 444/18, Penny Russell
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, The Jaguar, UQP, 443/46, David Mason
HOOPER, Chloe, Bedtime Story, Simon & Schuster, 442/49, Brenda Walker
HORE, Jarrod, Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism, University of California Press, 444/32, Gary Werskey
HORNER, David, The War Game: Australian war leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq, Allen & Unwin, 447/19, Peter Edwards
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel (translated by Andrew Brown), Interventions 2020, Polity, 444/36, David Jack
HOWARD, John, A Sense of Balance, HarperCollins, 447/21, Patrick Mullins
ILANBEY, Sumeyya, Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier, Allen & Unwin, 447/12, Gideon Haigh
IVORY, James, Solid Ivory, Corsair, 441/57, Ian Britain
JABLONKA, Ivan (translated by Nathan Bracher), A History of Masculinity: From patriarchy to gender justice, Allen Lane, 444/17, Shannon Burns
JACOBSON, Howard, Mother’s Boy: A writer’s beginning, Jonathan Cape, 444/47, Don Anderson
JAIRETH, Subhash, Aflame, Life Before Man, 441/42, Luke Beesley
JAKOBSEN, Mette, The Wingmaker, Text, 439/37, Polly Simons
JANAKIRAMANAN, Neela, The Registrar, Allen & Unwin, 446/30, Debra Adelaide
JEFFREYS-JONES, Rhodri, A Question of Standing: The history of the CIA, Oxford University Press, 446/33, Timothy J. Lynch
JEFFRIES, Stuart, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we became postmodern, Verso Books, online only, Heather Blakey
JENKINS, David, Young Soeharto: The making of a soldier, 1921–1945, Melbourne University Press, 441/19, David Reeve
JOHNSON, A. Frances, Save As, Puncher & Wattmann, 439/48, Gregory Day
JONES, Barry (ed.), The Penalty Is Death: State power, law, and justice, Scribe, 447/23, Christopher Ward
JONES, Darryl, Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, birds, people and me, NewSouth, 448/50, Peter Menkhorst
JONES, Gail, Salonika Burning, Text Publishing, 448/37, Diane Stubbings
JONES, Zach, Growing Up in Flames, Text Publishing, 444/42, Ben Chandler
JORDAN, Toni, Dinner with the Schnabels, Hachette, 442/40, Debra Adelaide
JOYCE, James and Catherine Flynn (ed.), The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 text with essays and notes, Cambridge University Press, 448/30, Ronan McDonald
KASSAB, Yumna, Australiana, Ultimo Press, 440/32, Jennifer Mills
KEATS CITRON, Danielle, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age, Chatto & Windus, 448/25, Jessica Lake
KEEN, Steve, The New Economics: A manifesto, Polity, 446/54, Benjamin Huf
KEMISH, Ian, The Consul, University of Queensland Press, 448/52, Alison Broinowski
KEMP, Josh, Banjawarn, UWA Publishing, 441/33, Jennifer Mills
KENNEDY, Paul, Funkytown, Affirm Press, online only, Nicholas Bugeja
KENT, Hannah, Devotion, Picador, 439/41, Rose Lucas
KERBAJ, Richard, Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, Blink, 449/40, Peter Edwards
KIM, Annabel L., Cacaphonies: The excremental canon of French literature, University of Minnesota Press, 334/39, David Jack
KINGSOLVER, Barbara, Demon Copperhead, Allen & Unwin, 449/50, Paul Giles
KOFMAN, Lee, The Writer Laid Bare: Mastering emotional honest in a writer’s art, craft and life, Ventura Press, 443/33, Merav Fima
KOVNER, Sarah, Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW camps, Harvard University Press, 440/51, Joan Beaumont
LAI, Lee, Stone Fruit, Fantagraphics Books, 449/48, Bernard Caleo
LAMOND, Julieanne, Lohrey, The Miegunyah Press, 446/31, Brenda Walker
LAWRENCE, Anthony and Audrey Molloy, Ordinary Time, Pitt Street Poetry, 449/53, Rose Lucas
LAWRENCE, Anthony, Ken, Life Before Man, 441/42, Luke Beesley
LE BEAU, Nellie, Inheritance, Puncher & Wattmann, 443/44, Anders Villani
LE CARRÉ, John, Silverview, Viking, 439/39, Morag Fraser
LE GRAND, Chip, Lockdown, Monash University Publishing, 447/14, David Jack
LEFEVRE, Carol, The Tower, Spinifex Press, 448/40, Charle Malycon
LEIGH, Andrew, What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential risk and extreme politics, MIT Press, 440/16, Gareth Evans
LIMPRECHT, Eleanor, The Coast, Allen & Unwin, 445/39, Penny Russell
LOXLEY, Will, Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 440/20, Paul Kildea
LU, Siang, The Whitewash, University of Queensland Press, 446/28, Dilan Gunawardana
LUI-CHIVIZHE, Leah, Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People, The Miegunyah Press, online only, Ben Silverstein
LUKINS, Robert, Loveland, Allen & Unwin, 440/29, Debra Adelaide
LYONS, Martyn, Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies 1949–1966, UNSW Press, 439/12, Brenda Niall
MACGILLIS, Alec, Fulfillment: Winning and losing in one-click America, Scribe, 439/55, Jack Callil
MACINTYRE, Stuart, The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning, Allen & Unwin, 441/14, Sheila Fitzpatrick
MAGEE, Audrey, The Colony, Faber, 443/25, Diane Stubbings
MAHOOD, Kim, Wandering with Intent: Essays, Scribe, 449/54, Shannyn Palmer
MANJAPRA, Kris, Black Ghost of Empire: The long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation, Allen Lane, 447/27, Georgina Arnott
MANNING, Paddy, The Successor: The high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch, Black Inc., 449/21, Patrick Mullins
MARGOYLES, Miriam, This Much is True, John Murray Press, 439/58, Carol Middleton
MASON, David, Pacific Light, Red Hen Press, 448/44, Geoff Page
MAY POWELL, Shannon, Can we rest tonight in the amnesia of pleasure, no more poetry, 447/57, Ender Başkan
McCALMAN, Iain, Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A human-animal story of captivity, patriarchy and nature, Upswell, 440/49, Libby Robin
McCAUSLAND, Vanessa, The Beautiful Words, HarperCollins, 439/37, Polly Simons
McCOURT, John, Consuming Joyce: 100 years of Ulysses in Ireland, Bloomsbury Academic, 445/40, Gary Pearce
McCULLOCH, Scott, Basin: A novel, Black Inc., 445/34, Morgan Nunan
McEWAN, Ian, Lessons, Jonathan Cape, 447/39, Geordie Williamson
McFARLANE, Fiona, The Sun Walks Down, Allen & Unwin, 449/46, Patrick Allington
McGREGOR, Fiona Kelly, Iris, Picador, 449/45, Felicity Plunkett
McGREGOR, Fiona, Buried Not Dead, Giramondo, 439/51, Sophie Knezic
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, Skin Deep: The inside story of our outer selves, Vintage Books, 441/38, Diane Stubbings
McGURL, Mark, Everything and Less: The novel in the age of Amazon, Verso, 441/21, James Ley
McHUGH, Siobhán, The Power of Podcasting, Telling stories through sound, UNSW Press, 441/51, Astrid Edwards
McLACHLAN, Mat, The Cowra Breakout, Hachette, 446/53, Seumas Spark
McLEAN, Felicity, Red, Fourth Estate, 443/28, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona (ed.), Open Secrets: Essays on the writing life, Sydney Review of Books, 444/48, Alex Cothren
MEYER, Angela, Moon Sugar, Transit Lounge, 448/42, Jennifer Mills
MEYRICK, Julian, Australia in 50 Plays, Currency Press, 443/58, Andrew Fuhrmann
MIDALIA, Susan, Miniatures: A collection of short stories, Night Parrot Press, 449/47, Debra Adelaide
MILLER, Steven, The Exhibitionists: A history of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 440/65, David Hansen
MILLETT, Patsy, Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter’s perspective, Fremantle Press, 440/52, Susan Sheridan
MONBIOT, George, Regenesis, Allen Lane, 448/47, Ben Brooker
MOORE, Bob, Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939–1956, Oxford University Press, 448/11, Joan Beaumont
MOORE-GILBERT, Kylie, The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison, Ultimo Press, 443/60, Hessom Razavi
MORTON, Steve, Australian Desserts: Ecology and landscapes, CSIRO Publishing, 442/50, Saskia Beudel
MOSHFEGH, Ottessa, Lapvona, Jonathan Cape, 447/43, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
MOSSAMMAPARAST, Marjon, And to Ecstasy, Upswell Publishing, 445/52, Jennifer Harrison
MOUNK, Yascha, The Great Experiment: How to make diverse democracies work, Bloomsbury, 449/12, Ben Wellings
MÜLLER, Jan-Werner, Democracy Rules, Allen Lane, 439/52, Ben Wellings
MUNRO, Doug, History Wars: The Peter Ryan–Manning Clark controversy, ANU Press, 439/13, Mark McKenna
MURAKAMI, Haruki (translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen), Novelist as a Vocation, Harvill Secker, 449/52, Cassandra Atherton
MUSGRAVE, David, Selected Poems, Eyewear Publishing, 439/47, Geoff Page
NELSON, Alice, Faithless, Vintage, 445/35, Nicole Abadee
NIALL, Brenda, My Accidental Career, Text Publishing, 441/52, Jacqueline Kent
NICHOLS, Tom, Our Own Worst Enemy: The assault from within on modern democracy, Oxford University Press, 441/23, Glyn Davis
NOTT, Michael, August Kleinzahler, and Clive Wilmer (eds.), The Letters of Thom Gunn, Faber, 445/48, Ian Dickson
NUGENT, Carly, Sugar, Text Publishing, 444/42, Ben Chandler
O’BEIRNE, Sean, Helen Garner, Black Inc., 442/26, Beejay Silcox
O’BRIEN, Damen, Animals with Human Voices, Recent Works Press, 440/43, Sarah Day
O’FARRELL, Maggie, The Marriage Portrait, Hachette, 448/43, Amy Walters
O’REILLY, Paddy, Other Houses, Affirm Press, online only, Sonia Nair
ORLIN, Lena Cowen, The Private Life of William Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, 441/48, David McInnis
ORR, Sue, Loop Tracks, Upswell Publishing, 440/29, Brigid Magner
OUSTON, Adam, Waypoints, Splice, online only, J.J. Errington
PAGDEN, Anthony, The Pursuit of Europe: A history, Oxford University Press, 442/56, Peter McPhee
PARRISH, Tommi, Men I Trust, Scribe, 449/48, Bernard Caleo
PATCHETT Ann, These Precious Days, Bloomsbury, 439/60, Nicole Abadee
PATRICK, Aaron, Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party’s civil war, HarperCollins, 445/13, Patrick Mullins
PEARSON, Roger, The Beauty of Baudelaire: The poet as alternative lawgiver, Oxford University Press, 444/52, John Hawke
PIKETTY, Thomas (translated by Steven Rendall), A Brief History of Equality, Harvard University Press, 444/19, Yassmin Abdel-Magied
PIPER, Sally, Bone Memories, UQP, 445/27, Georgia White
POTTER, Claire, Acanthus, Giramondo, 443/48, Sarah Day
POTTER, Simon, This Is The BBC: Entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain, 1922–2022, Oxford University Press, 449/37, Paul Long
POWELL, Nicholas, Trap Landscape, Hunter Publishers, 446/.47, Rose Lucas
PRENDERGAST, Julia, Bloodrust, Spineless Wonders, 449/47, Debra Adelaide
PRESCOTT, Shaun, Bon and Lesley, Giramondo, 448/36, Morgan Nunan
PRESTON, Edwina, Bad Art Mother, Wakefield, 445/24, Jane Sullivan
PRIEST, Ann-Marie, My Tongue Is My Own: A life of Gwen Harwood, La Trobe University Press, 443/8, Stephanie Trigg
QUILTY, Andrew, August in Kabul: America’s last days in Afghanistan, Melbourne University Press, 446/15, Kieran Pender
RABIN, Sean, The Good Captain, Transit Lounge, 442/37, Alex Cothren
RAWSON, Jane, A History of Dreams, Brio Books, 441/27, Lisa Bennett
RENNEX, Bronwyn, Life with Birds: A suburban lyric, Upswell, 446/50, Sarah Gory
RICHARDSON, John, A Life of Picasso: The minotaur years, 1933-1943, Jonathan Cape, 444/60, Patrick McCaughey
RILKE, Rainer Maria (translated by Alison Croggon), Duino Elegies, Newport Street Books, 444/55, Humphrey Bower
RIWOE, Mirandi, The Burnished Sun, UQP, 443/31, Cassandra Atherton
ROBERTS, Geoffrey, Stalin’s Library: A dictator and his books, Yale University Press, 441/16, Iva Glisic
ROFF, Andrew, The Teeth of a Slow Machine, Wakefield Press, 444/41, Anthony Lynch
ROOKE, Drew, A Witness of Fact: The peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock, Scribe, 440/54, Alecia Simmonds
ROSA, Paul Dalla, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, Allen & Unwin, 444/41, Anthony Lynch
ROSE, Heather, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, Allen & Unwin, 448/27, Kirsten Tranter
RUNCIMAN, David, Confronting Leviathan: A history of ideas, Profile Books, 439/17, David Kearns
RYAN, Kate, The Golden Book, Scribe, 439/37, Polly Simons
RYAN, Tracy, Rose Interior, Giramondo, 444/53, Maria Takolander
SAKR, Omar, Son of Sin, Affirm Press, 442/39, Jay Daniel Thompson
SALOM, Phillip, Sweeney and the Bicycles, Transit Lounge, 448/41, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SAMUELS, Robert and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd, Bantam Press, 447/50, Declan Fry
SCHMID, Konrad and Jens Schröter (translated by Peter Lewis), The Making of the Bible: From the first fragments to sacred scripture, Harvard University Press, 440/56, Constant J. Mews
SCHMIDT, Sarah, Blue Hour, Hachette, 445/26, Georgia White
SCHULTZ, Julianne, The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation, Allen & Unwin, 447/34, Robert Phiddian
SERONG, Jock, The Settlement, Text Publishing, 447/42, Brenda Walker
SHAMSIE, Kamila, Best of Friends, Bloomsbury Circus, 447/41, Andrea Goldsmith
SHERBORNE, Craig, The Grass Hotel, Text Publishing, 441/32, Gay Bilson
SHOBBROOK, John, Operation Jungle, UQP, 443/61, Lyndon Megarrity
SHOLL, Natasha, Found, Wanting: A memoir, Ultimo Press, 441/53, Andrew Broertjes
SHORT, Philip, Putin: His life and times, The Bodley Head, 446/11, Sheila Fitzpatrick
SIMPSON, Inga, Willowman, Hachette, 449/44, Diane Stubbings
SMITH, Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific, Third Edition, The Miegunyah Press, 449/14, Lynette Russell
SMITH, Hazel, ecliptical, Spineless Wonders, 445/54, Chris Arnold
SMITH, Justin E.H., The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A history, a philosophy, a warning, Princeton University Press, 444/28, Geordie Williamson
SMITH, Mark, If Not Us, Text Publishing, 441/31, Ben Chandler
SMITH, Tracy K., Such Color: New and selected poems, Graywolf Press, 439/46, Felicity Plunkett
SOYINKA, Wole, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Bloomsbury, 439/36, Marc Mierowsky
SPARROW, Jeff, Crimes against Nature: Capitalism and global heating, Scribe, 442/61, Kurt Johnson
SPARROW, Jeff, Provocations: New and selected writings, NewSouth, 447/15, Anwen Crawford
STANLEY, Jessica, A Great Hope, Picador, 440/28, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
STASI, Paul (ed), Raymond Williams at 100, Rowman & Littlefield, 440/58, Gary Pearce
STAVANS, Ilan, What is American Literature?, Oxford University Press, 442/27, Paul Giles
STEVENSON, Benjamin, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Michael Joseph, 442/38, Francesca Sasnaitis
STEWART, Emily, Running time, Vagabond, 443/44, Anders Villani
STOLLBERG-RILINGER, Barbara (translated by Robert Savage), Maria Theresa: The Habsburg empress in her time, Princeton University Press, 443/53, Miles Pattenden
STUART, Douglas, Young Mungo, Picador, 443/24, Shannon Burns
SUMPTION, Jonathan, Law in a Time of Crisis, Profile Books, 439/54, Kieran Pender
TÁÍWÒ, Olúféṃi O., Elite Capture: How the powerful took over identity politics (and everything else), Pluto Press, 448/22, Yassmin Abdel-Magied
TAME, Grace, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir, Macmillan, 449/18, Zora Simic
TA-WEI, Chi, The Membranes: A novel, Columbia University Press, online only, Josh Stenberg
TEN-DOESSCUATE CHU, Petra, Max Donnelly, Andrew Montana, Suzan Veldink, Daniel Cottier: Designer, decorator, dealer, Yale University Press, 440/62, Matthew Martin
THOMPSON, Helen, Disorder: Hard times in the 21st century, Oxford University Press, 444/11, Tim McMinn
THREADGOLD, Steven and Jessica Gerrard, Class in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 442/59, Sean Scalmer
TÓIBÍN, Colm (ed.), One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Pennsylvania State University, 445/40, Gary Pearce
TOLTZ, Steve, Here Goes Nothing, Hamish Hamilton, 443/37, Amy Baillieu
TRIBE, Keith, Constructing Economic Science: The invention of a discipline 1850–1950, 449/61, Ryan Walter
TSU, Jing, Kingdom of Characters: A tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China, Allen Lane, 443/13, James Jiang
TYERMAN, Edward, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and early Soviet culture, Columbia University Press, 443/38, Iva Glisic
TYNAN, Elizabeth, The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia, NewSouth, 442/21, Michael Winkler
TYRRELL, Ian, American Exceptionalism: A new history of an old idea, University of Chicago Press, 447/26, Emma Shortis
UHLMANN, Anthony, Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ fiction, Sydney University Press, 445/19, Julieanne Lamond
VAN ONSELEN, Peter and Wayne Errington, Victory: The inside story of Labor's return to power, HarperCollins, 448/20, Martin McKenzie-Murray
VARGA, Susan, Hard Joy: Life and writing, Upswell Publishing, 444/35, Susan Sheridan
VARNEY, Denise, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian modernism on stage, 1960—2018, Sydney University Press, Jonathan Dunk
VASEFI, Saba, Melinda Smith, and Yvette Holt (eds.), Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry, Recent Work Press, 442/45, Nadia Rhook
VILLORO, Juan (translated by Alfred MacAdam), Horizontal Vertigo: A city called Mexico, Pantheon Books, 439/57, Gabriel García Ochoa
VUONG, Ocean, Time Is a Mother, Jonathan Cape, 444/51, Lucy Van
WALKER, Ross, Harold Holt: Always one step further, La Trobe University Press, 447/10, James Walker
WALLMAN, Sam, Our Members Be Unlimited, Scribe, 443/57, Bernard Caleo
WALTER, Ben, What Fear Was, Puncher & Wattmann, 444/41, Anthony Lynch
WARD, Daniel, eternal delight paralysis, no more poetry, 447/57, Ender Başkan
WASSEF, Nadia, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller, Corsair, 439/22, Beejay Silcox
WEARNE, Alan, Near Believing: Selected monologues and narratives 1967–2021 Puncher & Wattmann, 448/45, Michael Farrell
WEBSTER, Allayne, That Thing I did, Wakefield Press, 444/42, Ben Chandler
WHISH-WILSON, David, The Sawdust House, Fremantle Press, 441/34, Alex Cothren
WHITE, Edmund, A Previous Life, Bloomsbury, 441/28, Robert Dessaix
WHITE, Susan, Cut, Affirm Press, 446/30, Debra Adelaide
WILLIAMS, Raymond, Culture and Politics: Class, writing, socialism, Verso, 440/58, Gary Pearce
WILSON, Dominique, Orphan Rock, Transit Lounge, 441/26, Susan Sheridan
WILSON, Eric G., Dream-Child: A life of Charles Lamb, Yale University Press, 440/17, Frances Wilson
WILSON, Sandra and Rebecca Jennings (ed.), Between Me and Myself: A memoir of murder, desire and the struggle to be free, Text Publishing, 447/33, Sam Elkin
WOLFF, Michael, Landslide: The final days of the Trump presidency, The Bridge Street Press, 439/20, Timothy J. Lynch
WOMERSLEY, Chris, The Diplomat, Picador, 444/39, Jennifer Mills
WOODWARD, Bob, Peril, Simon & Schuster, 439/20, Timothy J. Lynch
YANAGIHARA, Hanya, To Paradise, Picador, 440/34, Georgia White
YPI, Lea, Free: Coming of age at the end of history, Allen Lane, online only, Michael Lazarus
ZUBOK, Vladislav M., Collapse, Yale University Press, 446/12, Luke Stegemann
ZUBRZYCKI, John, The Shortest History of India, La Trobe University Press, 444/46, Ian Hall
ZUNZ, Olivier, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The life of Alexis de Tocqueville, Princeton University Press, 446/43, Peter McPhee
2022 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Festival
2022 Venice Biennale, Iva Glisic, online only
Film/Television/Streaming
A Hero (Hi Gloss Entertainment), Jordan Prosser, online only
A Stasi Comedy (Palace Films), James Cleverley, online only
Armageddon Time (Universal), Jordan Prosser, online only
Belfast (Universal Pictures), 440/63, Jordan Prosser
Benedetta (Hi Gloss Entertainment), 440/64, Miles Pattenden
Benediction (Palace Films), 439/62, Ian Britain
Bones and All (Universal Pictures), Anwen Crawford, online only
Dear Thomas (Palace Films), Ben Gook, online only
Drive My Car (Potential Films), 441/56, Dilan Gunawardana
Elvis (Warner Bros), 444/63, Jordan Prosser
Everything Went Fine (Palace Nova), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Father Stu (Sony Pictures), Miles Pattenden, online only
Flee (Madman Films), Richard Leathem, online only
Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind (Jewish International Film Festival), 449/66, Sascha Morrell
Lost Illusions (Palace Films), 444/62, Felicity Chaplin
Loveland (Dark Matter Distribution), 442/64, Jordan Prosser
Maixabel (Palace/Spanish Film Festival), 443/64, Ruth McHugh-Dillon
Memoria (Madman Films), Anwen Crawford, online only
Men (Roadshow Films), Jordan Prosser, online only
Navalny (Melbourne International Film Festival), Anne Rutherford, online only
Nope (Universal Pictures), 446/60, Troy Harwood
She Said (Universal Pictures), Alecia Simmonds, online only
Sundown (Kismet Movies), 445/63, Felicity Chaplin
The Australian Wars (SBS), 448/56, Anne Rutherford
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures), Jordan Prosser, online only
The Dropout (Hulu), Jordan Prosser, online only
The Godfather, Florence Honybun, online only
The Northman (Universal Pictures), Troy Harwood, online only
Three Thousand Years of Longing (Roadshow Entertainment), 447/62, Jordan Prosser
Triangle of Sadness (Sharmill Films), Jordan Prosser, online only
Music
An American in Paris (The Australian Ballet and GWB Entertainment), Tim Byrne, online only
Australian World Orchestra (Australian World Orchestra), 447/63, Michael Shmith
Australian Youth Orchestra (Melbourne Town Hall), Peter Tregear, online only
Bo Skovus with Andrea Lam, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), Michael Halliwell, online only
Melbourne International Jazz Festival (Melbourne International Jazz Festival), Des Cowley, online only
Messa da Requiem (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Peter Rose, online only
Of the Earth and Symphony No.2, Resurrection (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), Paul Kildea, online only
St Matthew Passion (Melbourne Bach Choir), Morag Fraser, online only
War Requiem (WASO), Humphrey Bower, online only
Winterreise (Musica Viva), 445/67, Michael Shmith
Opera
A Christmas Carol (Victorian Opera), Peter Tregear, online only
Awakening Shadow (Sydney Chamber Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Die Walküre (Melbourne Opera), 440/66, Michael Shmith
Elektra (Victorian Opera), 447/60, Michael Shmith
Fidelio (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), Michael Halliwell
Il Trovatore (Opera Australia) 445/65, Peter Rose
Jonny spielt auf (Gärtnerplatztheater), Peter Tregear, online only
La Juive (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
La Traviata (Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Lohengrin (Opera Australia), 443/66, Peter Rose
Lucrezia Borgia (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Orontea (Pinchgut Opera), 444/58, Ian Dickson
Otello (Opera Australia), 441/60, Michael Halliwell
Peter Grimes (Royal Opera House), Peter Tregear, online only
Siegfried (Melbourne Opera), 448/58, Michael Shmith
The Call (Opera Queensland), 448/55, Jenna Robertson
The Human Voice (Opera Queensland), 448/55, Jenna Robertson
The Phantom of the Opera (Opera Australia), Jason Whittaker, online only
The Turn of the Screw (State Opera of South Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Voss (State Opera of South Australia and Victorian Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan (Adelaide Festival), Humphrey Bower, online only
Theatre
A Raisin in the Sun (Sydney Theatre Company), 447/61, Ian Dickson
Amadeus (Red Line Productions), Ian Dickson, online only
Anna K (Malthouse Theatre), 445/61, Diana Stubbings
As You Like It (Melbourne Theatre Company), 439/66, Tim Byrne
Chalkface (State Theatre Company South Australia and Sydney Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only
Come Rain or Come Shine (Melbourne Theatre Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Cyrano (Melbourne Theatre Company) 448/54, Tim Byrne
Death of a Salesman (Hearth Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Death of a Salesman (Sydney Theatre Company), 439/65, Ian Dickson
Emilia (Essential Theatre), Diane Stubbings, online only
Fun Home (Playhouse), Tim Byrne, online only
Girls & Boys (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Ben Brooker, online only
Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare), 443/65, Tim Byrne
Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Red Stitch Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Into the Woods (Watch This Theatre Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company), 439/67, Gabriella Edelstein
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Belvoir Street Theatre), Anwen Crawford, online only
Maureen: Harbinger of Death (Malthouse Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Monsters (Malthouse Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Opening Night (Belvoir), 441/59, Humphrey Bower
RBG: Of Many, One (Sydney Theatre Company) 449/64, Gabriella Edelstein
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Sydney Theatre Company), Guy Webster, online only
The Amateurs (Red Stitch Theatre), Tim Byrne, online only
The Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare), 445/64, Tim Byrne
The Sound Inside (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings, online only
The Tempest (Sydney Theatre Company), Kirk Dodd, online only
Visual Arts
#brownmaninawhitemuseum (Grainger Museum), 441/62, Peter Tregear
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium (Heide Museum of Modern Art), Sophie Knezic, online only
Data Relations (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Jarrod Zlatic, online only
Fred Williams: The London Drawings (Ian Potter Gallery: NGV Australia), Irena Zdanowicz
HG60, Hamilton Gallery 60th Anniversary (Hamilton Gallery), 441/63, Christopher Menz
Light: Works from Tate’s Collection (ACMI). 445/62, Sophie Knezic
Mandy Martin – A Persistent Vision (Geelong Gallery), Libby Robin, online only
Matisse: Life and spirit (The Art Gallery of New South Wales), 439/63, Julie Ewington
Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection (NGV International), 442/65, Sophie Knezic
Retainers of Anarchy (Sydney Modern), Anne Rutherford, online only
Rīvus (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), 442/66, Julie Ewington
Venice Art Biennale (Venice Biennale), 444/59, Iva Glisic
Book Talk
COWLEY, Des, ‘A New Poetry Imprint’, online only
GRENVILLE, Kate, ‘Writers for Climate Action: Walking the walk for the climate crisis’, online only
MILSOM, Rosemarie, ‘Newcastle Writers Festival: A welcome return’, online only
SCHMID, Jaimi, ‘ANU Press’s thousandth title’, online only
Essays and Commentary
BALKIN, Sarah, ‘Stone face: The history and prehistory of deadpan’, 442/53
BEAUMONT, Joan, ‘Too busy to have time for us: Reflections on Australian studies at Harvard’, 441/39
BESSANT, Judith, Faith Gordon and Rob Watts, ‘The education minister’s jackboots’, 440/21
BONGIORNO, Frank, ‘Politics by other means: Enlarging our diminished sense of political leadership’, 442/8
BOZZI, Claudio, ‘“Under the beach umbrellas”: Italy’s fragile political system’s new test’, 447/17
CHARLES, Stephen, ‘Restoring Australia’s reputation for integrity: Labor’s new anti-corruption bill’, 449/9
CRAWFORD, Anwen, ‘A rubber cudgel of a word: the speciousness of resilience’, 445/57
CURRAN, James, ‘A long way to go: Australia’s fraught relations with China’, 446/9
DAMOUSI Joy, Stephen Charles, Catherine Williams, Frank Bongiorno, Dennis Altman, and David Latham, ‘Quo vadis, Australia?: Reorienting the nation following the election’, 444/21
DUNK, James, ‘Covid travellers: The struggle between historians and microbes’, 448/48
FORD, Thomas H., ‘Covid on the brain’, 440/35
GARBUTT, Michael, ‘The Museum of Mankind’, 446/35
GILL, Mindy, ‘’Till “real voices” wake us, and we drown’, 440/8
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘Salman’s throat: living with cancer and a fatwa’, 447/36
GORDON, Faith, ‘The case for lowering the voting age’, 442/15
HARWOOD, John, ‘Gwen Harwood and the perils of reticence: Notes of a son and literary executor’, 443/16
HORNE, Julia, ‘A new accord: Restoring good relations between government and universities’, 444/27
KENNY, Mark, ‘The power of office’, 445/8
LATHAM, David, ‘“Not being talked about”: Putting the arts back on the political stage’, 440/25
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘A hot novax summer: The influence of sport and Covid on Australian language’, 441/35
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘On boganism: Reflections on class and Australian English’, 448/33
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Strong curry: On the trail of election language’, 444/45
MCEVOY, Tara, ‘The verity of his company’, 446/22
MONAGLE, Clare, ‘To wear the crown too easily: A bizarre new reign begins’, 447/9
OGILVIE, Sarah, ‘Crunk, wig, and slaps: How our language dates us in the digital world’, 443/21
PENDER, Kieran, ‘Shooting the messengers: How the Collaery case stains our democracy’, 441/8
RICHARDS, Michael, ‘Too many slips showing: Alec Bolton and Australian Book Review’, 449/36
ROSE, Peter, ‘Editor’s Diary’, 440/37
RUSSELL, Gillian, ‘Raking the past: Northern Irish fiction in the age of social media’, 447/45
SAUL, Ben, ‘The law of the jungle: Western hypocrisy over the Russian invasion of Ukraine’, 444/9
TYNAN, Elizabeth, ‘Britain’s atomic oval: The vassalage of Australian governments in the 1950s and 1960s’, 443/42
WATTS, Samuel, ‘More History, Not Less: The unnaming of Moreland City Council’, 439/33
ZUBRZYCKI, John, ‘The power paradox: Illiberalism and Hindu majoritarianism in Modi’s India’, 444/30
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ATKINS, Linda, ‘Shouting Abortion: A doctor reflects on the politics and economics of terminations’, 443/34
GORY, Sarah, ‘Ghosts, Ghosts Everywhere’, 445/45
TEDESCHI, Simon, ‘This woman my grandmother’, 442/29
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ARNOLD, Chris, ‘Sixes and Sparrows’, 439/30
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Gippslanding (triptych)’, 439/29
FARRELL, Michael, ‘“Australianesque”’, 439/27
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads’, 439/28
LIM, Debbie, ‘Hummingbird Country’, 439/26
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
CULLEN, Nina, ‘Dog park’, 445/28
ELLIS, Tracy, ‘Natural Wonder’, 445/32
GARROW, C.J. ‘Whale Fall’, 445/36
Interviews
Open Page
ARNOTT, Robbie, 446/58
BEARD, Mary, 440/26
BRAMSTON, Troy, 441/54
BURNS, Shannon, 447/58
CLARK, Anna, 439/34
HOOPER, Chloe, 442/62
MCGREGOR, Fiona, 449/62
VARGA, Susan, 444/56
WINKLER, Michael, 445/60
Poet of the Month
FITCH, Toby, online only
LAWRENCE, Anthony, 442/47
Publisher of the Month
WHITE, Terri-ann, 448/51
Critic of the Month
ANDERSON, Don, 439/50
WILSON, Frances, 443/62
Poetry
Poems
BERNSTEIN, Charles, ‘Poem Beginning, Almost, with a Line by Duncan’, 444/34
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘Old Jetty’, 443/32
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Harbour’, 446/34
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The Forest’, 441/41
BRABON, Katherine, ‘Autoimmune’, 442/46
BRADY, Andrea, ‘The Rest’, 443/42
CATALANO, Gary, ‘The Building’, 440/48
CHONG, Eileen, ‘Curlew’, 440/59
DINIĆ, Jelena, ‘Close Contacts’, 440/36
ELL, Theodore, ‘Tenebrae’, 442/41
HARRISON, Jennifer, ‘Mandelbrot Set’, 445/14
HARWOOD, Gwen, ‘Suburban Sonnet’, 443/9
HAWKE, John, ‘Circle of Fifths’, 448/39
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Paradise’, 442/15
KINSELLA, John, ‘Imitating Rural Imitation: After Robert Browning’s ‘Two in the Campagna’, 447/53
LILLEY, Kate, ‘Planisphere’, 449/20
MEAD, Philip, ‘Torrents of Spring’, 444/50
NGUYEN, Hoa, ‘Fortune Cookie No Fortune’, 447/35
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘On Dover Street’, 448/34
RAVINTHIRAN, Vidyan, ‘Pillaiyar’, 445/58
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘Freya’, 446/32
ROSE, Peter, ‘Coronation Chicken’, 449/35
ROSE, Peter, ‘Styptic’, 443/14
TAYLOR, Andrew, ‘Visiting Peter’, 449/55
VILLANI, Anders, ‘Deer Knife’, 441/49
Surveys
Books of the Year
ABDEL-MAGIED, Yassmin, 449/29
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 449/31
BIRCH, Tony, 449/28
BONGIORNO, Frank, 449/32
BRADLEY, James, 449/34
BRETT, Judith, 449/30
DAVIS, Glyn, 449/29
DAY, Gregory, 449/34
DEANE, Joel, 449/33
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 449/31
FRASER, Morag, 449/34
GILES, Paul, 449/32
GILL, Mindy, 449/33
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 449/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 449/30
HOFMANN, Michael, 449/31
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 449/28
HUGHES-d’AETH, 449/33
KELLY, Sean, 449/32
KENNY, Mark, 449/31
KINSELLA, John, 449/32
LEY, James, 449/34
McKENNA, Mark, 449/33
MILLS, Jennifer, 449/31
NIALL, Brenda, 449/31
PENDER, Kieran, 449/28
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 449/33
REES, Yves, 449/29
ROSE, Peter, 449/29
SILCOX, Beejay, 449/29
STUBBINGS, Diane, 449/30
WALKER, Brenda, 449/32
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 449/33
WILSON, Frances, 449/28
WINKLER, Michael, 449/32
WRIGHT, Clare, 449/29
Tribute
LUMBY, Catharine, ‘A tribute to Frank Moorhouse’, 445/42
MATTHEWS, David, ‘A tribute to Brian Matthews’, 444/25
Index for 2021: Nos 428–438 & online features
ABR Index 2021
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2021.
2021 Australian Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
ABERDEEN, Lucinda and Jennifer Jones (eds), Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under exemption, Aboriginal Studies Press, 432/10, Marilyn Lake
ADAM, Pip, Nothing to See, Giramondo, 431/29, Maks Sipowicz
ADLER, Eric, The Battle of the Classics, Oxford University Press, online only, Matthew R. Crawford
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, The Other Half of You, Hachette Australia, 434/42, Shannon Burns
AHMED, Sara, Complaint!, Duke University Press, 435/40, Zora Simic
ALLINSON, Miles, In Moonland, Scribe, 435/19, Scribe, 435/19, Daniel Juckes
ALTMAN, Dennis, God Save the Queen: The strange persistence of monarchies, Scribe, 436/47, John Rickard
ANDRADA, Eunice, TAKE CARE, Giramondo, 437/60, Prithvi Varatharajan
ANGEL, Katherine, Tomorrow Sex will be Good Again, Verso, 432/16, Zora Simic
ARALUEN, Evelyn, Dropbear, University of Queensland Press, 437/60, Prithvi Varatharajan
ARCHBOLD, Charlie, Indigo Owl, Wakefield Press, 428/47, Benjamin Chandler
ARRINGTON, Lauren, The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy shaped British, Irish, and US writers, Oxford University Press, online only, Sean Pryor
ARUDPRAGASM, Anuk, A Passage North, Granta, 438/34, Dilan Gunawardana
ASPHYXIA, Future Girl, Allen & Unwin, 428/47, Benjamin Chandler
ATHERTON, Cassandra, Hold Your Fire, Scribner Australia, 429/39, Cassandra Atherton
ATTWOOD, Bain, William Cooper: An Aboriginal life, The Miegunyah Press, 438/13, Penny Russell
ATWOOD, Bain, Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, property and Indigenous people, Cambridge University Press, 431/7, Lisa Ford
ATWOOD, Margaret, Dearly, Chatto & Windus, 429/56, David Mason
BACON, Eugen, The Road to Woop Woop and other stories, Meerkat Press, 428/45 Susan Midalia
BAIL, Murray, He., Text Publishing, 429/26, Gerard Windsor
BALINT, Ruth, and Kalman, Julie, Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia, NewSouth, 434/29, Elizabeth Holdsworth
BALOUGH, Terry and Kay Dreyfus (eds), Distant Dreams: The correspondence of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, 1946-60, Lyrebird Press, 430/63, David Pear
BALTHROP-LEWIS, Alda, Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, social justice and the politics of asceticism, Cambridge University Press, 435/55, Danielle Celermajer
BARTON, Rod, The Life of a Spy: An education in truth, lies and power, Black Inc., 437/52, Andrew West
BAXTER, Ella, New Animal, Allen & Unwin, 431/31, Debra Adelaide
BEASLEY, Richard, Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe … the death of the Murray-Darling Basin, Allen & Unwin, 431/44, Kirsty Howey
BEAUMONT, Jerzy, Errant Night, Recent Work Press, 432/55, James Antoniou
BECHDEL, Alison, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Jonathan Cape, 437/34, Bernard Caleo
BECK, Koa, White Feminism: From the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind, Simon & Schuster, 430/16, Megan Clement
BEDFORD, Kavita, Friends and Dark Shapes, 430/34, Anna MacDonald
BEEHLER, Bruce M., New Guinea: Nature and culture of Earth’s grandest island, Princeton University Press, 430/49, Peter Menkhorst
BEHRENDT, Larissa, After Story, University of Queensland Press, 433/36, Debra Adelaide
BERESFORD, Quentin, Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history, NewSouth, Cameron Muir
BERGANTZ, Alexis, French Connection: Australia’s cosmopolitan ambitions, NewSouth, 436/43, Jim Davidson
BETTS, Alexander, The Wealth of Refugees: How displaced people can build economies, Oxford University Press, 433/24, Maria O’Sullivan
BINET, Laurent, translated by Sam Taylor, Civilisations, Harvill Secker, 435/20, Cristina Savin
BIRCH, Tony, Dark as Last Night, University of Queensland Press, 434/40, Anthony Lynch
BIRTLES, Bill, The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism, and the search for answers, Allen & Unwin, 434/10, Michael Dwyer
BITTO, Emily, Wild Abandon, Allen & Unwin, 437/31, Amy Baillieu
BLAINE, Lech, Car Crash, Black Inc., 431/54, Jack Cameron Stanton
BLOOM, Harold, Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles: The power of the reader’s mind over a universe of death, Yale University Press, 431/22, James Ley
BLOSHTEYN, Maria (ed.), Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War, Smokestack Books, 428/55, David Wells
BOBIS, Merlinda, The Kindness of Birds, Spinifex Press, 438/35, Francesca Sasnaitis
BOLTON, Ken, Salute, Puncher & Wattmann, 428/53, Luke Beesley
BONYHADY, Tim, Two Afternoons in the Kabul Staudium: A history of Afghanistan through clothes, carpets and the camera, Text Publishing, 436/7, Morag Fraser
BOWEN, Chris, Labor People: The stories of six true believers, Monash University Publishing, online only, Lyndon Megarrity
BOYCE, James (ed.), Inga Clementine: Selected writings, Black Inc., 432/15, Tom Griffiths
BRACEWELL, Lorna, Why We Lost the Sex Wars, University of Minnesota Press, 432/16, Zora Simic
BRANDS, H.W., The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American Freedom, Knopf, 429/21, Clare Corbould
BREAKEY, Hugh, The Beautiful Fall, Text, 435/21, Elizabeth Bryer
BRENNAN, Bernadette, Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears, Allen & Unwin, 438/16, Brenda Walker
BRENNAN, Timothy, Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said, Bloomsbury, 437/23, James Jiang
BRETT, Judith, Doing Politics: Writing on public life, Text Publishing, 438/44, Morag Fraser
BROOKS, David, Animal Dreams, Sydney University Press, online only, Ben Brooker
BROOKS, Michael, The Art of More: How mathematics created civilisation, Scribe, 437/57, Robyn Arianrhod
BROPHY, Kevin, In This Part of the World, Melbourne Poets Union, 430/43, Rose Lucas
BROW BOOKS, Dizzy Limits: Recent experiments in Australian nonfiction, Brow Books, 431/45, James Antoniou
BRYANT, Nick, When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present, Viking, 428/19, Andrew West
BUNBURY, Alisa (ed.), Pride of Place: Exploring the Grimwade collection, The Miegunyah Press/Potter Museum of Art, 434/62, John Arnold
BURGMANN, Meredith and Nadia Wheatley, Radicals: Remembering the Sixties, NewSouth, 433/23, Kerryn Goldsworthy
BURROWS, Michael, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, 434/55, Alex Cothren
BURUMA, Ian, The Churchill Complex: The rise and fall of the special relationship, Atlantic Books, 429/20, Timothy J. Lynch
BUTLER, Judith, The Force of Nonviolence: An ethico-political bind, Verso Books, 429/51, Nicholas Bugeja
BUTTIGIEG, Pete, Trust: America’s best chance, John Murray, 431/53, Simon Caterson
BYRON, John, The Tribute, Affirm Press, 434/41, Jay Daniel Thompson
BYRSKI, Liz (ed.), Women of a Certain Rage, Fremantle Press, 429/28, Caitlin McGregor
CAIANI, Ambrogio A., To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII, Yale University Press, 431/49, Miles Pattenden
CAREY, Gabrielle, Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth von Arnim, University of Queensland Press, 428/50, Juliane Roemhild
CARLYON, Les, A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup, Allen & Unwin, 438/30, Seumas Spark
CARROLL, Steven, O, Fourth Estate, 430/31, Shannon Burns
CASTLES, Belinda (ed.), Reading Like an Australian Writer, NewSouth, 431/47, Polly Simons
CAVE, Damien, Into the Rip: How the Australian way of risk made my family stronger, happier… and less American, Simon & Schuster, 437/53, David Mason
CAYANAN, Mark Anthony, Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous, Giramondo Publishing, 432/55, James Antoniou
CELERMAJER, Danielle, Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future, Hamish Hamilton, 429/49, Alice Bishop
CHANDLER, Tania, All That I Remember about Dean Cola, Scribe, 433/41, Susan Midalia
CHESTERMAN, Simon, We, the Robots? Regulating artificial intelligence and the limits of the law, Cambridge University Press, 438/61, Henry Fraser
CHONG, Eileen, A Thousand Crimson Blooms, University of Queensland Press, 433/53, James Jiang
CLARK, Paige, She Is Haunted, Allen & Unwin, 438/35, Francesca Sasnaitis
CLARKE, Josephine, Recipe for Risotto, UWAP, 428/54, Ella Jeffery
CLAYTON, Eleanor, Barbara Hepworth: Art and life, Thames & Hudson, 436/63, Gregory Day
CLEARY, Paul, Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant, Black Inc., 437/10, Stephen Bennetts
COLLINS, Carolyn, Save Our Sons: Women, dissent and conscription in the Vietnam War, Monash University Publishing, 433/22, Michelle Arrow
COLLINS, Christy, The Price of Two Sparrows, Affirm Press, 430/34, Anna MacDonald
CONRAD, Peter, The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies and imagination, Thames & Hudson, 436/67, James Antoniou
COSTA, Margaret Jull (ed.), The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories, Penguin Classics, 434/43, Alice Whitmore
CRAWFORD, Anwen, No Document, Giramondo Publishing, 430/17, Francesca Sasnaitis
CROGGON, Alison, Monsters, Scribe, 430/23, Sarah Walker
CROTTY, Martin, Neil J. Diamant and Mark Edele, The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century: A comparative history, Cornell University Press, 429/15, Christina Twomey
CROUCHER, Gwilym and James Waghorne, Australian Universities: A history of common cause, UNSW Press, 429/16, Peter Tregear
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie (ed.), Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers respond to 2020, Vintage Books, 428/60, Adele Dumont
CUSK, Rachel, Second Place, Faber, 434/39, Melinda Harvey
DALGARNO, Paul, Poly, Ventura Press, 428/48, Kate Crowcroft
DAVIDSON, Toby, Four Oceans, Puncher & Wattmann, 431/38, Peter Kenneally
DAVIS, Megan and George Williams, Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart, UNSW Press, 433/11, Kevin Bell
DAWKINS, Young, Slow Walk Home, Red Squirrel Press, 438/53, Luke Beesley
DAWSON, Hannah (ed.), The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing, Penguin Classics, 432/21, Megan Clement
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone, translated by Lauren Elkin, The Inseparables, Vintage, 438/33, David Jack
DE KRESTER, Michelle, Scary Monsters, Allen & Unwin, 436/36, Shannon Burns
DELAP, Lucy, Feminisms: A global history, Penguin, 430/15, Zora Simic
DILLON, Brian, Suppose a Sentence, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 429/29, Luke Beesley
DISHER, Garry, Consolation, Text Publishing, 428/40, Tony Birch
DISHER, Garry, The Way It Is Now, Text Publishing, 438/37, Tony Birch
DÖBLIN, Alfred (translated by Imogen Taylor), Two Women and a Poisoning, Text Publishing, 433/39, Joachim Redner
DODD, Andrew, and Matthew Ricketson (eds), Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism, UNSW Press, 437/26, Gemma Nisbet
DODD, Benjamin, Airplane Baby Banana Blanket, Recent Work Press, 428/54, Ella Jeffery
DOHERTY, Peter, An Insider’s Plague Year, Melbourne University Press, 435/12, Diane Stubbings
DOHRA, Ahmad (ed.), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature, Penguin Classics, 430/52, Merav Fima
DOVEY, Ceridwen, Life After Truth, Viking, 428/41, Josephine Taylor
DOWN, Jennifer, Bodies of Light, Text Publishing, 436/34, Susan Midalia
DRISCOLL, Oliver, I Don’t Know How That Happened, Recent Works Press, 430/42, Gig Ryan
DUNN, Winnie, Stephen Pham, and Phoebe Grainer, Racism: Stories on fear, hate and bigotry, 433/15, Mindy Gill
EALOM, Jaivet, Escape from Manus: The untold true story, Viking, 435/42, Justine Poon
EASTON, Max, The Magpie Wing, Giramondo, 438/39, Alex Cothren
EBERHARD, Adrienne, Chasing Marie Antoinette All over Paris, Black Pepper, 431/38, Peter Kenneally
EDGAR, Stephen, The Strangest Place: New and selected poems, Black Pepper, 429/53, Geoff Page
EILENBERGER, Wolfram, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Time of the Magicians: The invention of modern thought, 1919-1929, Allen Lane, 428/59, Janna Thompson
ELKIN, Lauren, No. 91/92: A Parisian bus diary, Tablo Tales, 437/50, Megan Clement
ELLIS, Kate, Sex, Lies and Question Time, Hardie Grant Books, 433/14, Katrina Lee-Koo
ELVEY, Anne, Obligations of Voice, Recent Work Press, 438/53, Luke Beesley
ERRINGTON, Wayne and Peter van Onselen, How Good is Scott Morrison?, Hachette, 432/23, Paul D. Williams
EVANS, Carolyn, Adrienne Stone, and Jade Roberts, Open Minds: Academic freedom and freedom of speech in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 430/13, Kieran Pender
EVERLY-WILSON, Stuart, Low Expectations, Text Publishing, 430/34, Anna MacDonald
FALCONER, Delia, Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss, Scribner, 437/43, Jonica Newby
FALCONER, Delia, Sydney (Second Edition), NewSouth, 429/57, Jacqueline Kent
FARRELLY, Elizabeth, Killing Sydney: The fight for a city’s soul, Picador, 429/57, Jacqueline Kent
FERGUSON, Niall, Doom: The politics of catastrophe, Allen Lane, 434/12, Benjamin Huf
FISCHER, Luke, and Davis Macauley (eds), The Seasons: Philosophical, literary and environmental perspectives, SUNY Press, 436/54, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
FISHER, Catherine, Sound Citizens: Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956, Australian National University Press, 435/39, Yves Rees
FITCH, Toby, Sydney Spleen, Giramondo, 435/45, Pam Brown
FITZGERALD, Helen, Ash Mountain, 431/32, David Whish-Wilson
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War history of migration to Australia, La Trobe University Press, 431/10, Stuart Macintyre
FLANAGAN, Richard, Toxic: the rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry, Penguin Random House, 432/18, James Boyce
FLANNERY, Tim, The Climate Cure: Solving the climate emergency in the era of Covid-19, Text Publishing, 429/46, Alistair Thomson
FOURNIER, Lauren, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism, MIT Press, 431/51, Dženana Vucic
FRANZEN, Jonathan, Crossroads, Fourth Estate, 436/32, Declan Fry
FRENKEL, Sheera, and Kang, Cecilia, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s battle for domination, Hachette, 435/7, Joel Deane
FRITH, David, Archie Jackson: Cricket’s tragic genius, Slattery Media Group, 428/63, Daniel Seaton
GALGUT, Damon, The Promise, Chatto & Windus, 436/37, Marc Mierowsky
GARDNER, James, The Louvre: The many lives of the world’s most famous museum, Grove Press, 428/71, Christopher Menz
GATTI, Tom (ed.), Long Players: Writers on the albums that shaped them, Bloomsbury, 437/25, Andrew Ford
GEORGE, Kathy, Sargasso, HQ Fiction, 432/40, Georgia White
GIBBS, Alison, Repentance, Scribe, 430/34, Anna MacDonald
GLEESON, Sinéad, The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories, Apollo, 433/40, Geordie Williamson
GLOVER, Dennis, Factory 19, Black Inc., 428/44, Frank Bongiorno
GODFREY-SMITH, Peter, Metazoa: Animal minds and the birth of consciousness, William Collins, 428/62, Diane Stubbings
GOLDMANN, Wendy Z. and Filtzer, Donald, Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet home front during World War II, Oxford University Press, 435/34, Sheila Fitzpatrick
GORRIE, Veronica, Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and survival, Scribe, 436/26, Meriki Onus
GOWAN, Cathy, Cathy Goes to Canberra: Doing politics differently, Monash University Press, 428/37, Joshua Black
GRAGNOLATI, Manuele, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden, (eds), The Official Handbook of Dante, Oxford University Press, 435/30, Diana Glenn
GRIBBLE, Jennifer, Dickens and the Bible: ‘What providence meant’, Routledge, 433/59, Alan Dilnot
GRINSPAN, Jon, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915, Bloomsbury, 434/27, Samuel Watts
GROSSMAN, David, translated by Jessica Cohen, More Than I Love My Life, Jonathan Cape, 438/38, Tali Lavi
GUESS, Raymond, A Philosopher Looks at Work, Cambridge University Press, 437/55, Nicholas H. Smith
HAIG, Francesca, The Cookbook of Common Prayer, Allen & Unwin, 437/35, Debra Adelaide
HAIGH, Gideon, The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the great Australian dissent, 433/17, Frank Bongiorno
HARPER, Melissa, The Ways of the Bushwalker: On foot in Australia, NewSouth, 435/43, Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
HARRIS, Mark, Mike Nichols: A life, Penguin Press, 431/12, Ian Dickson
HAULTAIN-GALL, Matthew, The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend, Monash University Press, 433/33, Robin Prior
HAWKE, John, Whirlwind Duststorm, Grand Parade Poets, 435/48, Jennifer Harrison
HAWKINS, Kelli, Other People’s Houses, Harper-Collins, 432/40, Georgia White
HEADLEY, Maria Dahvana (trans.), Beowulf: A new translation, Scribe, 432/53, Lisa Gorton
HEFFER, Simon (ed.), Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1918-38, Hutchinson, 433/52, Paul Kildea
HEISS, Anita, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, Simon & Schuster, 432/38, Jane Sullivan
HENDERSON, Ailsa and Richard Wyn Jones, Englishness: The political force transforming Britain, Oxford University Press, 429/18, Ben Wellings
HERRIN, Judith, Ravenna: Capital of empire, crucible of Europe, Allen Lane, 429/45, Michael Champion
HETHERINGTON, Paul and Cassandra Atherton, Prose Poetry: An introduction, Princeton University Press, 431/35, Anders Villani
HILLIARD, Christopher, A Matter of Obscenity: The politics of censorship in modern England, Princeton University Press, 438/57, Geordie Williamson
HITZ, Zena, Lost in Thought, Princeton University Press, online only, Matthew R. Crawford
HOCKING, Jenny, The Palace Letters, Scribe, 428/9, Jon Piccini
HOFMANN, Michael, Messing About in Boats, Oxford University Press, 433/58, Paul Giles
HOGAN, Eleanor, Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates, NewSouth, 430/9, Kim Mahood
HOGAN, Sandra, With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs, Allen & Unwin, 430/21, Jane Sullivan
HOLDEN, Kate, The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek, Black Inc., 433/29, Cameron Muir
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, Fishing for Lightning: The spark of poetry, University of Queensland Press, 436/53, David McCooey
HOLMAN, Zoe, Where the Water Ends: Seeking refuge in fortress Europe, Melbourne University Press, 430/51, Tom Bamforth
HOLMES, Rachel, Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural born rebel, Bloomsbury, 431/13, Barbara Caine
HOLT, LK, Capacity, Vagabond, 437/59, Joan Fleming
HONE, Joseph, Alexander Pope in the Making, Oxford University Press, 434/17, Robert Phiddian
HORROCKS, Ingrid, Where We Swim: Explorations of nature, family and travel. University of Queensland Press, 434/26, Naama Grey-Smith
HUPPATZ, D.J., Astroturfing for Spring, Puncher & Wattmann, 438/53, Luke Beesley
ISHIGURO, Kazuo, Klara and the Sun, Faber, 429/34, Beejay Silcox
JACH, Antoni, Travelling Companions, Transit Lounge, 437/33, Andrew McLeod
JANKE, Terri, True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture, UNSW Press, 436/16 Laura Rademaker
JEFFERY, Ella, Dead Bolt, Puncher & Wattmann, 428/53, Luke Beesley
JENNINGS, Paul, Untwisted: The story of my life, Allen & Unwin, 428/36, Barnaby Smith
JENSEN, Erik, I Said the Sea was Folded: Love poems, Black Inc., 432/56, James Antoniou
JINKS, Catherine, Shelter, Text Publishing, 431/32, David Whish-Wilson
JOB, Peter, A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian violation of East Timor, Melbourne University Press, 433/28, Ken Ward
JOHNSON, Luke, Ferocious Animals, Recent Work Press, 438/35, Francesca Sasnaitis
JOHNSON, Susan, From Where I Fell, Allen & Unwin, 431/31, Debra Adelaide
JONES, Barry, What Is to Be Done: Political engagement and saving the planet, Scribe, 436/48, Paul Morgan
JONES, Jill, Wild Curious Air, Recent Work Press, 428/53, Luke Beesley
JONES, Tom, George Berkeley: A philosophical life, Princeton University Press, 433/60, Janna Thompson
JOUBIN, Alexa Alice, Shakespeare and East Asia, Oxford University Press, 434/16, Brandon Chua
JUERS, Evelyn, The Dancer: A biography for Phillipa Cullen, Giramondo, 438/17, Susan Lever
KAUFMAN, Amie and Meagan Spooner, The Other Side of the Sky, Allen & Unwin, 428/47, Benjamin Chandler
KEANE, John, To Kill a Democracy: India’s passage to despotism, Oxford University Press, 435/13, Ian Hall
KEATING, James, Distant Sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-1914, Manchester University Press, 429/9, Marilyn Lake
KEMP, David, A Liberal State: How Australians chose liberalism over socialism, 1926–1966, Miegunyah Press, 430/12, Frank Bongiorno
KENT, Dale, The Most I Could Be: A renaissance story, Melbourne University Press, 433/61, Jacqueline Kent
KEUM, Tae-Yeoun, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, Harvard University Press, 435/52, Knox Peden
KINSELLA, John (ed.), Dislocations: The selected innovative poems of Paul Muldoon, Liverpool University Press, 429/54, James Jiang
KINSELLA, John, Pushing Back, Transit Lounge, 430/30, Thuy On
KIRKPATRICK, Peter, The Hard Word, Puncher & Wattmann, 434/56, Rose Lucas
KNAUSGAARD, Karl Ove, In the Land of the Cyclops, Harvill Secker, 435/35, Kári Gíslason
KNEEN, Krissy, The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with my grandmother’s ashes, Text Publishing, 431/41, Francesca Sasnaitis
KNOX, Malcolm, Truth is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau or how free speech became so complicated, Simon & Schuster, 429/44, Andrew West
KONDOLEON, Christine and Kate Nesin (eds), Cy Twombly: Making past present, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 430/64, Patrick McCaughey
KORNBLATT, Joyce, Mother Tongue, Brandl & Schlesinger, 428/45, Rose Lucas
KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah, The Believer: Encounters with love, death and faith, Text Publishing, 430/40, Naama Grey-Smith
KUPERSMITH, Violet, Build Your House Around My Body, Oneworld, 437/28, Sheila Ngoc Pham
KURMELOVS, Royce, Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap, University of Queensland Press, online only, Kurt Johnson
KURZ, Ella, King, Simone and Claire Delahunty (eds), What We Carry: Poetry on childbearing, Recent Work Press, 435/47, Jane Gibian
LAING, Olivia, Everybody: A book about freedom, Picador, 436/23, Caitlin McGregor
LAITE, Julia, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice, Profile Books, 434/21, Alecia Simmonds
LAMBERT, Nicholas A., The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 433/31, John Beaumont
LANG, Kristen, Earth Dwellers: New Poems, Giramondo, 436/58, Ella Jeffrey
LATOUR, Bruno, translated by Julie Rose, After Lockdown: A metamorphisis, Polity, 438/9, Paul Muldoon
LAU, Jamie Marina, Gunk Baby, Hachette, 431/27, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
LAUGESEN, Amanda, Rooted: An Australian history of bad language, NewSouth, 428/56, Kate Burridge
LEIGH, Andrew and Nick Terrell, Reconnected: A community builder’s handbook, La Trobe University Press and Black Inc., 428/61, Peter Mares
LEPORE, Jill, If then: How one data company invented the future, John Murray, online only, Joshua Krook
LEVY, Deborah, Real Estate, Hamish Hamilton, 437/47, Madeleine Gray
LEWIS, Michael, The Premonition: A pandemic story, Allen Lane, 434/12, Benjamin Huf
LI, Bella, Theory of Colours, Vagabond Press, 437/59, Joan Fleming
LIM, S.L, Revenge: Murder in three parts, Transit Lounge, online only, Mindy Gill
LIN, Song, translated by Dong Li, The Gleaner Song: Selected poems, Giramondo, 435/46, Nicholas Jose
LLEWELLYN, Kate, Harbour: Poems 2000-2019, Wakefield Press, 428/54, Ella Jeffery
LOCK, Kim, The Other Side of Beautiful, HQ Fiction, 435/21, Elizabeth Bryer
LOGEVALL, Fredrik, JFK: Coming of age in the American century, 1917–1956, Viking, online only, Gary Werskey
LUCAS, James, Rare Bird, Recent Work Press, 434/56, Rose Lucas
LUDLAM, Scott, Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next, Black Inc., 434/25, Dominic Kelly
McALLISTER, David and Amanda Dunn, Soar: a life freed by dance, Thames & Hudson, 428/70, Carol Middleton
McANULTY, Dara, Diary of a Young Naturalist, Little Toller Books, 429/47, Libby Robin
McCALMAN, Janet, Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria, The Miegunyah Press, 438/12, Alan Atkinson
McCRACKEN-FLESHER, Caroline and Wickman, Matthew, Walter Scott at 250: Looking forward, Edinburgh University Press, 435/31, Graham Tulloch
McGIRR, Michael, Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure, Text Publishing, 438/59, Janna Thompson
McKENNA, Mark, Return to Uluru: A killing, a hidden history, a story that goes to the heart of the nation, Black Inc., 430/7, Barry Hill
McKENZIE-MURRAY, Martin, The Speechwriter, Scribe, 434/55, Alex Cothren
MACDONALD, Anna, A Jealous Tide, Splice, 428/43, Polly Simons
MACMILLAN, Margaret, War: How conflict shaped us, Profile Books, 430/53, Rémy Davison
MAGUIRE, Emily, Love Objects, Allen & Unwin, 431/30, Fiona Wright
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Biological Necessity, Quemar Press, 430/43, Rose Lucas
MAISEL, Phillip, The Keeper of Miracles, Pan Macmillan, 437/56, Alistair Thomson
MALING, Caitlin, Fish Work, UWA Publishing, 436/58, Ella Jeffrey
MANHIRE, Bill, Wow, Victoria University Press, 430/43, Rose Lucas
MANN, Thomas, Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, NYRB Classics, 435/33, Joachim Redner
MANNING, Melissa, Smokehouse, University of Queensland Press, 430/33, Elizabeth Bryer
MASSAM, Katherine, A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia, ANU Press, 430/18, Meredith Lake
MATTINSON, Campbell, We Were Not Men, Fourth Estate, 437/35, Debra Adelaide
MEE, Nicholas, Celestial Tapestry: The warp and weft of art and mathematics, Oxford University Press, 429/61, Robyn Arianrhod
MIDALIA, Susan, Everyday Madness, Fremantle Press, 429/42, Debra Adelaide
MIKABERIDZE, Alexander, The Napoleonic Wars: A global history, Oxford University Press, 431/50, Peter McPhee
MILLIGAN, Louise, Witness: An investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice, Hachette, 428/15, Beejay Silcox
MILLMOW, Alex, The Gypsy Economist: The life and times of Colin Clark, Palgrave Macmillan, 435/56, John Tang
MILLS, Jennifer, The Airways, Picador, 435/16, Amy Baillieu
MINCHINTON, Barbara, The Women of Little Lon: Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne, La Trobe University Press, 438/60, Paul Dalgarno
MOLETA, Clare, Unsheltered, Scribner, 431/31, Debra Adelaide
MONEY, Jazz, How to Make a Basket, University of Queensland Press, 437/58, Anders Villani
MORDUE, Mark, Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave, Fourth Estate, 428/32, Tim Byrne
MORTON, Rick, My year of Living Vulnerably: A rediscovery of love, 4th Estate, 431/42, Paul Dalgarno
MUDDITT, Jessica, Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon, Hembury Press, 437/51, Nicholas Coppel
MUECKE, Stephen, The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo future in north-west Australia, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 431/43, Philip Morrissey
MUIR, Cameron, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell, Living with the Anthropocene: Love, loss and hope in the face of the environmental crisis, NewSouth, 428/51, Rayne Allinson
MULLAN, John, The Artful Dickens: The tricks and ploys of the great novelist, Bloomsbury, 431/23, Jennifer Gribble
MUNDEN, Paul and Nessa O’Mahoney (eds), Divining Dante, Recent Work Press, 438/55, Theodore Ell
MUNRO, Craig, Literary Lion Tamers: Book editors who made publishing history, Scribe, 430/36, Susan Sheridan
MURAKAMI, Haruki, translated by Philip Gabriel, First Person Singular, Harvill Secker, 431/26, Cassandra Atherton
MURNANE, Gerald, Last Letter to a Reader: Essays, Giramondo, 438/41, Peter Craven
MURPHY, Fiona, The Shape of Sound, Text Publishing, 430/24, Andrea Goldsmith
NASAW, David, The Last Million: Europe’s displaced persons from World War to Cold War, Allen Lane, 428/12, Sheila Fitzgerald
NAZARI, Abbas, After the Tampa: From Afghanistan to New Zealand, Allen and Unwin, 436/12, Ruth Balint
NEAVE, Lucy, Believe in Me, University of Queensland Press, 435/18, Alice Nelson
NELSON, Camilla, and Lumby, Catharine, Broken: Children, parents and family courts, La Trobe University Press, 436/45, Kath Kenny
NELSON, Maggie, On Freedom: Four songs of care and restraint, Jonathan Cape, 436/18, Felicity Plunkett
NGAANYATJARRA PITJANTJATJARA YANKUNYTJATJARA WOMEN’S COUNCIL, Tjanimaku Tjukurpa: How one young man came good, NPY Women’s Council, 428/20, Kim Mahood
NGUYEN, Viet Thanh, The Committed, Corsair, 429/36, Nicole Abadee
NORMAN, S.J., Permafrost, University of Queensland Press, 437/32, Paul Dalgarno
O’HARA, Helen, Women vs Hollywood: The fall and rise of women in film, Robinson, 432/59, Felicity Chaplin
O’KEEFFE, Angela, Night Blue, Transit Lounge, 434/55, Alex Cothren
OBAMA, Barack, A Promised Land, Viking, 428/17, Timothy J. Lynch
OLSEN, Tim, Son of the Brush: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 428/34, Ian Britain
ON, Thuy, Turbulence, UWA Publishing, 433/53, James Jiang
ORD, Mandy, When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over, Brow Books, 437/34, Bernard Caleo
ORR, Stephen, Sincerely, Ethel Malley, Wakefield Press, 433/37, Susan Sheridan
OSBORNE-CROWLEY, Lucia, My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Allen & Unwin, 436/51, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
OVERETT, Sophie, The Rabbits, Vintage, 435/21, Elizabeth Bryer
PARKINSON, Don, Leadership, Monash University Publishing, 433/18, James Walter
PEARSON, Noel, Mission: Essays, speeches and ideas, Black Inc., 438/42, Frank Bongiorno
PIPPIN, Robert B., Philosophy by Other Means: The arts in philosophy and philosophy in the arts, University of Chicago Press, online only, Justin Clemens
PLAYDON, Zoe, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, Bloomsbury, 438/20, Yves Rees
POLLAN, Michael, This Is Your Mind on Plants, Allen Lane, online only, Ben Brooker
POLLITT, Jo, The dancer in your hands, UWA Publishing, 430/42, Gig Ryan
PONTHUS, Joseph, translated by Stephanie Smee, On the Line: Notes from a factory, Black Inc., 432/37, Valentina Gosetti
POWERS, Richard, Bewilderment, William Heinemann, 436/38, J.R. Burgmann
PROBERT, Belinda, Imaginative Possession: Learning to live in the Antipodes, Upswell, 435/44, Paul Dalgarno
PUNG, Alice, One Hundred Days, Black Inc., 432/39, Yen-Rong Wong
RADTKE, Kristen, Seek You: A journey through American loneliness, Penguin Random House, 437/34, Bernard Caleo
RAFFLES, Hugh, The Book of Uncomformities: Speculations on lost time, Pantheon Books, 431/55, Dan Dixon
RAMSLAND, John, The Legacy of Douglas Grant: A notable Aborigine in war and peace, Brolga Publishing, 429/52, Noah Riseman
REDDAN, Erin, The Serpent’s Skin, Pantera Press, 432/40, Georgia White
REES, Dymphna Stella, A Paper Inheritance: The passionate literary lives of Leslia Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees, University of Queensland Press, 433/56, Susan Lever
REES, Yves, All About Yves, Allen & Unwin, 437/49, Kate Crowcroft
RENDELL, Kate Leah (ed.), Randolph Stow: Critical essays, UWA Publishing, 431/46, Brenda Walker
REYNOLDS, Harry, Truth-telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, NewSouth, 429/8, Sarah Maddison
REYNOLDS, Henry, and Clements, Nicholas, Tongerlongeter: First Nations leader and Tasmanian war hero, Allen and Unwin, 436/13, Libby Connors
RICHARDS, Allee, Small Joys of Real Life, Hachette, 437/35, Debra Adelaide
RICKS, Christopher, Along Heroic Lines, Oxford University Press, 434/13, James Ley
RINTOUL, Stuart, Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O’Donoghue , Allen & Unwin, 428/22, Michael Winkler
ROBERTS, Claire, Fairweather and China, The Miegunyah Press, 438/45, Gavin Leuzzi
ROBINS, James, When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand and the Armenian Genocide, I.B. Taurus, 431/9, Ashley Kalagian Blunt
ROONEY, Sally, Beautiful World, Where Are You, Faber, 436/29, Beejay Silcox
ROOSE, Kevin, Futureproof: 9 rules for humans in the age of automation, John Murray, 435/54, Joshua Krook
ROSS, Alex, Wagnerism: Art and politics in the shadow of music, Fourth Estate, 428/31, Michael Halliwell
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, Red Heaven: A fiction, Text Publishing, 436/28, Paul Giles
ROVELLI, Carlo, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, Helgoland, Penguin, 435/53, Robyn Arianrhod
ROVELLI, Carlo, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, There Are Places in the World Where Rules are Less Important than Kindness, Allen Lane, 429/60, Diane Stubbings
ROWLEY, Della and Lynn Buchanan (eds), Life as Art: The biographical writing of Hazel Rowley, Miegunyah Press, 434/15, Brenda Walker
RUBENSTEIN, Kim, The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC, Franklin Street Press, 435/38, Gideon Haigh
RUBY, Felicity and Peter Cronau (eds), A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks exposés, Monash University Publishing, 428/11, Kieran Pender
RUSBRIDGER, Alan, News and How to Use It: What to believe in a fake news world, Canongate, 430/10, Johanna Leggart
RUSSELL, Luke, Being Evil: A philosophical perspective, Oxford University Press, 429/62, Adrian Walsh
RUSSELL, Lynette (ed.). A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia, Monash University Publishing, 430/47, Diane Stubbings
RUSSELL, Martin, A Decade of Drift, Monash University Publishing, 433/18, James Walter
RYAN, Brendan, Walk Like a Crow: A memoir, Walleah Press, 430/55, Aidan Coleman
RYAN, Iain, The Spiral, Echo, 431/32, David Whish-Wilson
RYAN, Madeleine, A Room Called Earth, Scribe, 429/42, Debra Adelaide
SAUNDERS, George, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In which four dead Russians give us a masterclass in writing and life, Random House, 430/35, Robert Dessaix
SCHWARZBAUER, Resi and Chris Bell, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist, HistorySmiths, 432/24, Seumas Spark
SCOTLAND, Tony, Wulff: Britten’s young Apollo, Shelf Lives, 438/40, Paul Kildea
SEAL, Graham, Condemned: The transported men, women and children who built Britain’s empire, Yale University Press, 434/30, Seamus Spark
SEN, Amartya, Home in the World: A memoir, Allen Lane, 436/49, Varun Ghosh
SHEARSTON, Trevor, The Beach Caves, Scribe, 429/35, Andrew McLeod
SHIOSAKI, Elfie, Homecoming, Magabala Books, 433/55, Jeanine Leane
SIMPSON, Inga, The Last Woman in the World, Hachette, 438/32, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
SIMPSON, Nardi, Song of the Crocodile, Hachette, 428/42, Jane Sullivan
SKOVRON, Alex, Letters from the Periphery, Puncher & Wattmann, 436/57, Geoff Page
SMITH, Michael, The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi’s new China, Hardie Grant Books, 434/10, Michael Dwyer
SRINIVASAN, Amia, The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury, 435/58, Damian Maher
STEAD, Naomi et al. (ed.), After The Australian Ugliness, Thames & Hudson, 434/23, Jim Davidson
STEGEMANN, Luke, Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory, NewSouth, 429/13, Ashley Kalagian Blunt
STERELNY, Kim, The Pleistoscene Social Contact: Culture and cooperation in human evolution, Oxford University Press, 435/50, Janna Thompson
STREVENS, Michael, The Knowledge Machine: How an unreasonable idea created modern science, Allen Lane, 430/48, Robyn Arianhod
SUN, Emily, Vociferate | 詠, Fremantle Press, 435/46, Nicholas Jose
SUTTON, Peter and Keryn Walshe, Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, Melbourne University Press, 434/7, Stephen Bennetts
TADDEO, Lisa, Animal, Bloomsbury Circus, 434/49, Georgia White
TAKOLANDER, Maria, Trigger Warning, University of Queensland Press, 434/56, Rose Lucas
TAYLOR, Josephine, Eye of a Rook, Fremantle Press, 429/42, Debra Adelaide
TAYLOR, Michael, The Interest: How the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery, The Bodley Head, 429/12, Georgina Arnott
THOMAS, Claire, The Performance, Hachette, 429/38, Tim Byrne
THOMAS, Julia Adeney, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz, The Anthropocene, Polity, 429/47, Libby Robin
THOMPSON, Adam, Born Into This, University of Queensland Press, 430/32, Anthony Lynch
TÓIBÍN, Colm, The Magician, Picador, 435/17, James Ley
TOMASELLI, Sylvana, Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, passion and politics, Princeton University Press, 431/15, David Kearns
TOOZE, Adam, Shutdown: How Covid shook the world’s economy, Allen Lane, 437/46, John Tang
TREMLETT, Giles, The International Brigades: Fascism, freedom and the Spanish Civil War, Bloomsbury, 428/30, Luke Stegemann
TSIOLKAS, Christian, 7 ½, Allen & Unwin, 437/29, Declan Fry
VAN REYK, Paul, True to the Land: A history of food in Australia, Reaktion Books, 438/47, Gay Bilson
VAN, Lucy, The Open, Cordite Books, 437/58, Anders Villani
VANDERMEER, Jeff, Hummingbird Salamander, 4th Estate, 432/36, J.R. Burgmann
VARATHARAJAN, Prithvi, Entries, Cordite Books, 431/38, Peter Kenneally
VERACINI, Lorenzo, The World Turned Inside Out: Settler colonialism as a political idea, Verso, 437/12, Sarah Maddison
VICARS, James, Beyond the Sky: The passions of Millicent Bryant, aviator, Melbourne Books, 431/56, Per Henningsgaard
VICKERY, Ann, Bees do Bother, Vagabond, 437/58, Anders Villani
VINES, Helen, Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers, Monash University Publishing, 436/52, Susan Sheridan
WAINWRIGHT, Robert, Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba, Allen & Unwin, online only, Ian Dickson
WALKER, Sarah, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, University of Queensland Press, 434/20, Kate Crowcroft
WASLEY, Sasha, Spring Clean for the Peach Queen, Pantera, 433/42, Susan Midalia
WATSON, Trevor and Melissa Roberts (eds), The Beijing Bureau: 25 Australian Correspondents reporting China’s rise, Hardie Grant Books, 434/10, Michael Dwyer
WEBSTER, Mags, nothing to declare, Puncher & Wattmann, 430/42, Gig Ryan
WERZKEY, Gary, Picturing a Nation: The art and life of A.H. Fullwood, NewSouth, 432/64, Jane Clark
WEST, Nicola, Catch Us the Foxes, Simon and Schuster, 433/41, Susan Midalia
WHITEHEAD, Colson, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, 436/35, Mindy Gill
WILLACY, Mark, Rogue Forces: An explosive insider’s account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan, Simon & Schuster, 437/21, Kevin Foster
WILSON, Frances, Burning Man: The ascent of D.H. Lawrence, Bloomsbury, 434/58, Geordie Williamson
WINKLER, Michael, Grimmish, Westbourne Books, 430/38, Alex Cothren
WINTERBOTTOM, Michael, Dark Matter: Independent filmmaking in the 21st century, British Film Institute, 438/58, Felicity Chaplain
WINTERSON, Jeanette, 12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love, Jonathan Cape, 436/24, Diane Stubbings
WOOD, Christopher S., A History of Art History, Princeton University Press, 430/62, Christopher Allen
WOOD, Daniel Davis, At the Edge of the Solid World, Brio, 428/46, Naama Grey-Smith
WOODS, Carole, Vera Deakin and the Red Cross, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 431/14, Judith Brett
WOOLDRIDGE, Adrian, The Aristocracy of Talent: How meritocracy made the modern world, Allen Lane, 437/13, Glyn Davis
WOOLETT, Laura Elizabeth, The Newcomer, Scribe, 433/38, Jay Daniel Thompson
WU, Harry Yi-Jui, Mad by the Millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health Organization, MIT Press, online only, James Dunk
WYLD, Karen, Where the Fruit Falls, UWA Publishing, 429/40, Laura La Rosa
YOUNG, Damon, On Getting Off: Sex and philosophy, Scribe, 428/57, Shannon Burns
YOUNG, Kevin (ed.), African American Poetry: 250 years of struggle and song, Library of America, 431/39, David Mason
2021 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Commentary
‘A tribute to Stephen Sondheim’, Tim Byrne, online only
‘Coen it alone’, Tim Byrne, online only
‘Hilma af Klint’ Patricia Fullerton, online only
Festival
The 2021 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Des Cowley, online only
2021 Perth International Jazz Festival, Francesca Sasnaitis, online only
Film/Television/Streaming
Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021, Felicity Chaplin, online only
Cousins (Vendetta Films), Tahney Fosdike, online only
De Gaulle (Vertigo Productions), 432/58, Lisa Harper Campbell
Dune (Universal Pictures), Nicholas Bugeja, online only
Firebite (AMC+), Anne Rutherford, online only
French Exit (Sony Pictures Classics), Jordan Prosser, online only
Hong Kong New Talents (ACMI), Valerie Ng, online only
Incarceration Nation (SBS On Demand), 437/65, Travis Akbar
Lisey’s Story (Apple TV+), Valerie Ng, online only
Mare of Easttown (HBO), 434/67, Guy Webster
Marjorie Lawrence: The world at her feet (Sharmill Films), Ian Dickson, online only
Martin Eden (Avventurosa et al.), 433/67, Keva York
Minari (Madman Entertainment), 429/66, Richard Leathem
Ms Represented (ABC iView), Michelle Staff and Joshua Black, online only
My Name is Gulpilil (Molly Reynolds), 433/64, Travis Akbar
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix), Anne Rutherford, online only
New Gold Mountain (SBS On Demand), Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, online only
Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), 437/66, Jordan Prosser
Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures), 430/58, Valeria Ng
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Madman Entertainment), 428/66, Richard Leathem
Percy vs Goliath (Rialto Distribution), Richard Leathem, online only
Pig (Madman Entertainment), 436/65, Richard Leathem
Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (Madman), 434/65, Anne Rutherford
Shiva Baby (Utopia), 435/63, Jordan Prosser
Shtisel (Netflix), Tali Lavi, online only
Supernova (Madman Entertainment), 431/63, Richard Leathem
The Dig (Netflix), Brian McFarlane, online only
The Dissident (Madman Films), Aaron Nyerges, online only
The Father (Sharmill Films), 431/58, Tim Byrne
The French Dispatch (Searchlight Pictures), Felicity Plunkett, online only
The Power of the Dog (Netflix), 438/67, Jordan Prosser
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple TV+), Jordan Prosser, online only
Wakefield (ABC TV), 432/65, Jordan Prosser
West Side Story (20th Century Studios), Ian Dickson, online only
Music
Blood on the Floor (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Peter Tregear, online only
Messe de Minuit (Pinchgut Opera), 428/69, Michael Halliwell
The Australian World Orchestra, 433/66, Malcolm Gillies
Opera
Bluebeard’s Castle (Joan Sutherland Theatre), 430/59, Malcolm Gillies
Ernani (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
La Clemenza di Tito (National Opera), 431/59
Monteverdi's Vespers (Pinchgut Opera), Peter Tregear, online only
Platée (Pinchgut Opera), Ian Dickson, online only
The Marriage of Figaro (WA Opera), Wolfgang von Flugelhorn, online only
Theatre
A German Life (Adelaide Festival), Ben Brooker, online only
A Midnight Visit (Broad Encounters), 436/66, Zenobia Frost
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Adelaide Festival), Michael Morley, online only
Animal Farm (Black Swan State Theatre), 437/64, Francesca Sasnaitis
Appropriate (Sydney Theatre Company), Ian Dickson, online only
Because the Night (Malthouse Theatre), Sarah Walker, online only
Berlin (Melbourne Theatre Company), 432/60, Andrew Fuhrmann
Burn This (fortyfivedownstairs), 429/67, Sarah Walker
Das Rheingold (Regent Theatre), 429/64, Emma Muir-Smith
Fangirls (Arts Centre Melbourne), Emma Muir-Smith, online only
Fun Home (Sydney Theatre Company), 432/67, Ian Dickson
Happy Days (The Old Fitz Theatre), 434/63, Ian Dickson
Jali (Griffin Theatre), Ian Dickson, online only
King Lear (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), 435/62, Robert Reid
Lifespan of a Fact (Melbourne Theatre Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Macbeth (Melbourne Opera), Emma Muir-Smith, online only
Medea (Adelaide Festival), Ben Brooker, online only
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Andrew Fuhrmann, online only
Playing Beatie Bow (STC), 430/66, Polly Simons
Prayer Machine (Red Stitch Actors’ Theater), Andrew Fuhrmann, online only
RUNT (fortyfivedownstairs), 430/67, Tim Byrne
Stopgirl (Belvoir St Theatre), Polly Simons, online only
The Boy Who Talked To Dogs (Adelaide Festival), Ben Brooker, online only
The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir St Theatre), 433/65, Ian Dickson
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sydney Theatre Company), 428/68, Ian Dickson
Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company), 438/66, Ian Dickson
Visual Arts
Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London, (National Gallery of Australia), 430/61, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Clarice Beckett: The Present Moment, (Art Gallery of South Australia), 431/60, Julie Ewington
Doug Aitken: NEW ERA, (MCA, Australia), 438/64, Julie Ewington
Frederick McCubbin – Whisperings in wattle boughs (Geelong Gallery), A. Frances Johnson, online only
French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (National Gallery of Victoria), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 434/64, Julie Ewington
Joan Mitchell: World of Colour (National Gallery of Victoria), Julie Ewington, online only
Linda McCartney: Retrospective, (Art Gallery of Ballarat), 438/65, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce, (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 428/67, Saskia Beudel
NGV Triennial 2020 (National Gallery of Victoria), Sophie Knezic, online only
Nice is Different than Good (The Art Syndicate), Joshua Krook, online only
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism, (National Gallery of Victoria), 432/63, A. Frances Johnson
Sidney Nolan: Myth Rider (TarraWarra Museum of Art), Jane Clark, online only
Slow Moving Waters (TarraWarra Museum of Art), Kelly Gellatly, online only
The Business of Photography (Chau Chak Wing Museum), Elisa deCourcy, online only
The National 2021 (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), Saskia Beudel, online only
The View From Here (Art Gallery of Western Australia), Francesca Sasnaitis, online only
Tiwi: Art and artists, (National Gallery of Victoria), 430/61, Kelly Gellatly
Trent Parke: WW1 Avenue of Honour, (Art Gallery of Ballarat), 429/65, A. Frances Johnson
Who Goes Here? (Sydney Living Museum), Anne Rutherford, online only
William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen, (Queensland Art Gallery), 431/62, Jacqueline Chlanda
Book Talk
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘Celebrating Miegunyah Press’s 200th title’, online only
PEN INTERNATIONAL, ‘2,000 days in prison and counting: The long imprisonment of Nedim Türfent’, online only
ROWLEY, Della, Lynn Buchanan, and Irene Tomaszewski, ‘Supporting writers: The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship’, online only
Essays and Commentary
ANONYMOUS, ‘Letter from Syria: An aid worker reflects on the humanitarian crisis’, 433/26
BOZZI, Claudio, ‘The keys to the castle’, 430/45
BRETT, Judith, ‘ScoMo and his flow brain’, 437/7
BYRNE, Tim, ‘A plague on all our house: How theatre companies are coping after lockdown’, 430/26
CLEMENT, Megan, ‘Covid-19 and the pass sanitaire’, 435/10
CURRAN, James, ‘Failures of strategic imagination’, 436/10
DAVIS, Glyn, ‘The legacy of Hugh Stretton’, 431/18
ENNIS, Helen, ‘Max Dupain’s dilemmas’, 437/37
FRY, Declan, ‘The gospel of Stan’, 432/7
FULLERTON, Patricia, ‘Coincidences and connections: An early encounter with Hilma af Klint’, 433/49
JACK, David, ‘Bare life and health terror’, 436/40
JIANG, James, ‘Blurb praise and hot takes’, 436/21
KILDEA, Paul, ‘Letter from Adelaide: Presenting A Midsummer Night’s Dream during a pandemic’, 429/30
KNEEN, Krissy, ‘Dugongesque’, 438/49
LAUGESEN, Amanda ‘The awful sense of loss’, 431/34
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Apostrophe anarchy! For the love of punctuation’, 433/43
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Covidspeak revisited’, 436/46
McPHEE, Peter, ‘The digital cliff: Protecting the National Archives of Australia’, 432/26
MORLEY, Michael, ‘“Would you be free for dinner?”: An evening with John le Carré’, 429/41
MULDOON, Paul, ‘The prison of the past: The promise and the risk of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission’, 433/8
OLIVER, Elizabeth, ‘The nature of the race’, 435/23
PRIEST, Ann-Marie, ‘The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award: the parodic inventiveness of Gwen Harwood’, 432/49
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘The split state: Australia’s binary myth about people seeking asylum’, 432/27
ROLPH, David, ‘Proof of intention’, 436/15
STAFF, Michelle, and Black, Joshua, ‘Winning a seat at the table’, 436/62
SYNDER, Ilana, ‘Neighbour against neighbour: the cycle of conflict in Israel, Gaza and Palestine’, 432/12
THOMAS, Martin, ‘A period in the shade: Patrick White thirty years on’, 432/44
WATTS, Samuel, ‘Failure in Afghanistan’, 437/19
WATTS, Samuel, ‘This is America: A historical perspective on the Capitol assault’, 429/23
Fiction
ROWE, Josephine, ‘Bunker’, 432/42
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ELL, Theodore, ‘Façades of Lebanon’, 433/44
PUNTON, Anita, ‘May Day’, 435/24
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
BLAU, Danielle, ‘The Vernal Equinox Story’, 428/24
LEE, Y.S., ‘Would You Rather’, 428/24
MONEY, Jazz, ‘bila, a river cycle’, 428/24
SALEH, Sara M., ‘A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting’, 428/24
TOLCHINSKY, Raisa ‘before dawn, with the street lamp’s beam across your face’, 428/24
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
CHAUDHARY, Camilla, ‘The Enemy, Asyndeton’, 434/32
RICHARDS, John, ‘A Fall from Grace’, 434/45
SARAZEN, Lauren, ‘There Are No Stars Here, Either’, 434/51
Interviews
Open Page
BEHRENDT, Larissa, 433/62
GRANT, Stan, 432/34
JUERS, Evelyn, 438/62
KNEEN, Krissy, 431/36
McKENNA, Mark, 430/56
MILLIGAN, Louise, 428/64
MILLS, Jennifer, 435/60
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, 434/60
Poet of the Month
SKOVRON, Alex, 436/60
Publisher of the Month
INDYK, Ivor, 437/62
MacCARTER, Kent, 430/41
Critic of the Month
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 435/37
KENT, Jacqueline, 429/32
SILCOX, Beejay, 428/49
Poetry
Poems
ANDRADA, Eunice, ‘The Yield’, 433/30
AUSTIN, Derrick, ‘Miracle Play’, 432/41
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Sein and Zeit’, 433/42
DAVIDSON, Toby, ‘The Sistine Chapel’, 438/21
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Second Circle’, 430/54
FLEMING, Joan, ‘Every taxi driver in this city asks “Do you have children?”’, 434/28
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘Shaggy God Story’, 433/34
HARRISON, Jennifer, ‘Explorer’, 431/37
HAWKE, John, ‘September’, 429/27
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘Empires of Mind’, 438/56
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘The Gift’, 432/11
KINSELLA, John, ‘Pastiche Eclogue with Randolph Stow’s “Ishmael” 434/44
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Levitation’, 431/52
LYNCH, Fiona, ‘The Audit’, 429/59
MAIDEN, Jennifer, ‘Clare and Kiribati’, 430/39
MASON, David, ‘Quantum of Light’, 433/51
O’BRIEN, Damen, ‘Carpool’, 435/59
ROSE, Peter, ‘The Circuiteers’, 431/11
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Nth Wave’, 435/22
SAKR, Omar, ‘What Distance Burns’, 432/33
SKOVRON, Alex, ‘Marionettes’, 436/17
VICKERY, Ann, ‘Richard Mahony’s Most August Imagination’, 436/25
VILLANI, Anders, ‘Marlin’, 430/25
Surveys
Books of the Year
ANDERSON, Don, 438/22
AU-NHIEN NGUYEN, Giselle, 438/22
BIRCH, Tony, 438/22
BONGIORNO, Frank, 438/22
BRETT, Judith, 438/22
CRAVEN, Peter, 438/22
DAVIS, Glyn, 438/22
DAY, Gregory, 438/22
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 438/22
FRASER, Morag, 438/22
FRY, Declan, 438/22
GILES, Paul, 438/22
GILL, Mindy, 438/22
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, 438/22
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 438/22
HARRISON, Jennifer, 438/22
HARVEY, Melinda, 438/22
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 438/22
HUGHES-D’AETH, 438/22
JOHNSON, A. Frances, 438/22
JOSE, Nicholas, 438/22
KENT, Jaqueline, 438/22
KINSELLA, John, 438/22
LEY, James, 438/22
McCOOEY, David, 438/22
NELSON, Alice, 438/22
NIALL, Brenda, 438/22
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 438/22
REES, Yves, 438/22
ROSE, Peter, 438/22
SILCOX, Beejay, 438/22
SIMIC, Zora, 438/22
STUBBINGS, Diane, 438/22
SULLIVAN, Jane, 438/22
VILLANI, Anders, 438/22
WALKER, Brenda, 438/22
WEST, Andrew, 438/22
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 438/22
Index for 2020: Nos 418–427 & online features
ABR Index 2020
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2020.
2020 Australian Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
ABJORENSEN, Norman, The Manner of Their Going: Prime ministerial exits in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/22, Lyndon Megarrity
ABRIEL, Anita, The Light After the War, Simon & Schuster, 419/29, Susan Midalia
ACKERMAN, Jennifer, The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think, Scribe, 423/67, Simon Caterson
ADAMSON, Robert, Reaching Light: Selected Poems, Flood Editions, 427/44, James Jiang
ADIGA, Aravind, Amnesty, Picador, 420/30, Alison Broinowski
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, After Australia, Affirm Press, 424/25, Declan Fry
ALBISTON, Jordie, Element: The atomic weight & radius of love, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/53, Luke Beesley
ALLEN, Liz, The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover, NewSouth, 421/55, Peter Mares
ALLEN, Woody, Apropos of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, 422/47, Peter Craven
ALLINGTON, Patrick, Rise & Shine, Scribe, 422/28, Naama Grey-Smith
ALTMAN, Dennis, Unrequited Love: Diary of an accidental activist, Monash University Publishing, 418/60, Sebastian Sharp
AMIS, Martin, Inside Story, Jonathan Cape, 426/32, Declan Fry
APPLEBAUM, Anne, Twilight of Democracy: The failure of politics and the parting of friends, Allen Lane, 42/12, Luke Stegemann
ARNOTT, Robbie, The Rain Heron, Text, 422/31, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
ASHMERE, Emma, Dreams They Forgot, Wakefield Press, 426/35, Rose Lucas
ATHERON, Cassandra and Paul Hetherington (eds), The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, 427/45, Des Cowley
BAIR, Deirdre, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and me, Atlantic Books, 422/24, Ronan McDonald
BANERJEE, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better answers to our biggest problems, Allen Lane, 423/56, David Throsby
BARRISTER, The Secret, Fake Law: The truth about justice in an age of lies, Picador, 427/53, Kiernan Pender
BAYLISS, Andrew J., The Spartans, Oxford University Press, 424/58, Alastair Blanshard
BEAUMONT, Mandy, Wild Fearless Chests, Hachette, 420/32, Susan Midalia
BECK, Henning, Scatterbrain: How the mind’s mistakes make humans creative, innovative and successful, NewSouth, 419/49, Nick Haslam
BELL, Davina, The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love, Text, 425/32, Thuy On
BENNETT DAYLIGHT, Tegan, The Details: One love, death and reading, Simon & Schuster, 424/67, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
BENNETT, Michael, Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW, NewSouth, 421/45, Michael Winkler
BEST, Luke, Cadaver Dog, University of Queensland Press, 427/46, Anders Villani
BLACKFORD, Jenny, The Alpaca Cantos, Pitt Street Poetry, 426/55, James Antoniou
BLAND, Ben, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia, Penguin, 426/19, Ken Ward
BLAY, John, Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s south east forests, NewSouth, 426/21, Saskia Beudel
BOLTON, John, A White House memoir, Simon & Schuster, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
BOND, Catherine, Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War, NewSouth, 422/15, Kieran Pender
BOYD, William, Trio, Viking, 425/28, Michael Shmith
BOYLE, Peter, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness, Vagabond Press, 420/39, David McCooey
BRADLEY, James. Ghost Species, Hamish Hamilton, 421/35, J.R. Burgmann
BRETT, Judith, The Coal Curse: Resources, climate and Australia’s future (Quarterly Essay 78), Blank Inc., 424/27, Cameron Muir
BRIERLEY, Sue, Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as Lion, Viking, 426/53, Margaret Robson Kett
BRINSDEN, Anne, Wearing Paper Dresses, Macmillan, 419/29, Susan Midalia
BROINOWSKI, Richard, Under the Rainbow: The life and times of E.W. Cole, Miegunyah Press, 425/42, Jim Davidson
BROOKS, David, The Grass Library, Brandl & Schlesinger, 420/48, Ben Brooker
BROWN, Craig, One Two Three Four: The Beatles in time, Fourth Estate, 423/63, Andrew Ford
BROWNE, Peter and Seumas Spark (eds), ‘I Wonder’: The life and work of Ken Inglis, Monash University Publishing, 421/31, Nicholas Brown
BRYANT, Katerina, Hysteria, NewSouth, 421/42, Rachel Robertson
BUCCOLA, Nicholas, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America, Princeton University Press, 420/20, Samuel Watts
BUIST, Anne, The Long Shadow, Text, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
BUNGEY, Darleen, Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia, Allen & Unwin, 422/48, Tali Lavi
BYRNE, Liam, Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: The making of the modern Labor Party, Melbourne University Press, 422/11, Frank Bongiorno
CALLIL, Carmen, Oh Happy Day: Those times and these times, Jonathan Cape, 426/18, Brenda Niall
CAREY, John (ed.), A Little History of Poetry, Yale, 422/56, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
CARLISLE, Claire (ed.), translated by George Eliot, Spinoza’s Ethics, Princeton University Press, 424/47, Moira Gatens
CARMENT, Tim, Womerah Lane: Lives and landscapes, Giramondo, 418/14, Susan Wyndham
CARTER, Zachary D., The Price of Peace: Money, democracy and the life of John Maynard Keynes, Random House, 426/48, John Tang
CHAMEDES, Giuliana, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Europe, Harvard, 419/16, Paul Collins
CHO, Catherine, Inferno: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 423/65, Caitlin McGregor
CLANCHY, John, In Whom We Trust, Finlay Lloyd, 418/42, Susan Lever
CLARKE, Susanna, Piranesi, Bloomsbury, 425/31, Kirsten Tranter
CLODE, Danielle, In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World, Picador, 427/16, Gemma Betros
COAFFEE, Jon, Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world, Yale, 418/18, Tom Bamforth
COLEMAN, Aidan, Mount Sumptuous, Wakefield Press, 423/61, James Jiang
COLEY, Sam, State Highway One, Hachette, 422/35, Chloë Cooper
CONTE, Steven, The Tolstoy Estate, Fourth Estate, 425/26, James Antoniou
COOK, Nick, Fighting for Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS, NewSouth, 412/32, Garry Wotherspoon
COOKE, Richard, On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers, Black Inc., 422/18, Sophie Cunningham
CORRIS, Peter, selected by Jean Bedford, See You at the Toxteth: The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on crime, Allen & Unwin, 418/41, Chris Flynn
COUPE, Stuart, Paul Kelly: The man, the music and the life in-between, Hachette Australia, 424/20, Kerryn Goldsworthy
CRAWFORD, Richard, Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in music, W.W. Norton & Company, 423/62, Paul Kildea
CROGGON, Alison, The Threads of Magic, Walker Books, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
CRONIN, MTC, God is Waiting in the World’s Yard, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/53, Luke Beesley
DALTON, Trent, All Out Shimmering Skies, Fourth Estate, 426/37, Susan Wyndham
DALZIELL, Tanya, Gail Jones: Word, image, ethics, Sydney University Press, 424/44, Sue Kossew
DAPIRAN, Antony, City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 423/64, Will Higginbotham
DARBY, Andrew, Flight Lines: Across the globe on a journey with the astonishing ultramarathon birds, Allen & Unwin, 419/48, Andrew Fuhrmann
DAVIS, Lydia, Essays One, Hamish Hamilton, 420/23, Shannon Burns
DAWSON, Emma and Janet McCalman (eds), What Happens Next? Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19, MUP, 427/8, Morag Fraser
de ASSIS, Machado (translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux), The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Penguin Classics, 425/30, Andrew McLeod
de SAINT PHALLE, Catherine, The Sea and Us, Transit Lounge, 418/39, Susan Midalia
de WIND, Eddy (translated by David Colmer), Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp, Doubleday, 420/45, Elisabeth Holdsworthy
DEACON, Desley, Judith Anderson: Australian star, first lady of the American stage, Kerr Publishing, 419/51, John Rickard
DeLillo, Don, The Silence: A novel, Picador, 427/38, Don Anderson
DESSAIX, Robert, The Time of Our Lives: Growing older well, Brio Books, 425/37, Francesca Sasnaitis
DIBBLE, Jeremy (ed.) and Julian Horton (ed.), British Music Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950, Boydell Press, 420/51, Peter Tregear
DISHER, Garry, Peace, Text, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle Clode, The First Wave: Exploring early coastal contact history in Australia, Wakefield Press, 418/11, Alexandra Roginski
DRIVER, Dorothy, A Book of Friends: In honour of J.M. Coetzee on his 80th birthday, Text, 423/15, Paul Giles
DRY, Sarah, Waters of the World: The story of the scientist who unravelled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole, Scribe, 420/37, Michael Adams
DUFTY, David, Radio Girl: The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend, Allen & Unwin, 422/45, Jacqueline Kent
DUGGAN, Laurie, Homer Street, Giramondo, 424/53, Tim Wright
EBNER, Julia, Going Dark: The secret social lives of extremists, Bloomsbury, 420/17, Andrew Broertjes
EISEN, Cliff and Dominic McHugh (eds), The Letters of Cole Porter, Yale, 420/18, Paul Kildea
ELLIOTT, Helen (ed.), Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century grandmothers, Text, 422/50, Kerryn Goldsworthy
ELVERY, Laura, Ordinary Matter, University of Queensland Press, 424/35, Susan Midalia
ENNIS, Helen, Olive Cotton: A life in photography, Fourth Estate, 418/23, Alison Stieven-Taylor
ENRIGHT, ANNE, Actress, Jonathan Cape, 419/21, Alice Nelson
ERDRICH, Louise, The Nightwatchman, Corsair, 419/20, Beejay Silcox
EVANS, Alison, Euphoria Kids, Echo, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
FAHEY, John, Traitors and Spies: Espionage and corruption in high places in Australia, 1901–1905, Allen & Unwin, 425/13, Sheila Fitzpatrick
FARRELL, Michael, Family Trees, Giramondo, 422/53, Luke Beesley
FEAVER, William, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968–2011, Bloomsbury, 427/61, Ian Dickson
FENNELL, Jonathan, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 421/48, David Horner
FERRANTE, Elena, The Lying Life of Adults, Allen & Unwin, 426/30, Beejay Silcox
FIDJESTØL, Alfred, Almost Human: A biography of Julius the chimpanzee, Hachette, 418/23, Nicholas Bugeja
FIDLER, Richard, The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague, ABC Books, 425/59, Christopher Menz
FIELD, Caroline, Australian Galleries: The Purves family business: The first four decades 1956–1999, Australian Galleries, 420/53, Sheridan Palmer
FIELD, Vern, Island 159, Island Magazine, 423/68, Rayne Allinson
FIGES, Orlando, The Europeans: Three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture, Allen Lane, 418/30, Michael Shmith
FINLAYSON, Julie D. and Frances Morphy (eds), Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical ad anthropological essays in honour of Peter Sutton, Wakefield Press, 427/56, Stephen Bennetts
FIRKIN, Katherine, Sticks and Stones, Bantam, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
FLANAGAN, Richard, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Knopf, 426/28, James Ley
FLANDERS, Judith, A Place for Everything: The curious history of alphabetical order, Picador, 424/60, Andrew Connor
FLANNERY, Tim, Life: Selected writings, Text, 418/15, Libby Robin
FLYNN, Chris, Mammoth, University of Queensland Press, 421/36, Astrid Edwards
FORD, Andrew and Anni Heino, The Song Remains the Same: 800 years of love songs, laments and lullabies, La Trobe University Press, 419/65, David McCooey
FORD, Richard, Sorry for Your Trouble, Bloomsbury, 423/32, Don Anderson
FRAME, Tom (ed.), Trials and Transformations, 2001–2004: The Howard government, Volume III, UNSW Press, 422/43, Lyndon Megarrity
FRASER, Nick, Say What Happened: A story of documentaries, Faber, 419/52, Belinda Smaill
FUREDI, Frank, How Fear Works: Culture of fear in the twenty-first century, Bloomsbury, 420/47, Adrian Walsh
FURTADO, Peter, Great Cities Through Travellers’ Eyes, Thames & Hudson, 420/25, Nicole Abadee
GARDINI, Nicola, Long Live Latin: The pleasures of a useless language, Profile, 421/51, Alastair Blanshard
GARDNER, Angela, Some Sketchy Notes on Matter, Recent Work Press, 427/46, Anders Villani
GARNER, Helen, One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995, Text, 427/11, Nicholas Jose
GAWENDA, Michael, The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish life, Monash University Publishing, 426/47, David Trigger
GELDER, Ken and Rachael Weaver, The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt, Miegunyah, 423/53, Danielle Close
GEVISSER, Mark, The Pink Line: The world’s queer frontiers, Profile Books, 424/10, Dennis Altman
GILLARD, Julia and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons, Vintage, 424/8, Megan Clement
GILLETT, Ross, The Mirror Hurlers, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/54, Geoff Page
GOAD, Philip et al., Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming education through art, design and architecture, Miegunyah, 420/52, Christopher Menz
GOLDIN, Megan, The Night Swim, Michael Joseph, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, Melting Moments, Black Inc., 419/29, Susan Midalia
GOODFELLOW, Geoff, Out of Copley Street: A working-class boyhood, Wakefield Press, 427/18, Jay Daniel Thompson
GOPNIK, Blake, Warhol: A life as art, Allen Lane, 423/18, Paul McDermott
GORMAN, Clem and Therese Gorman, Intrépide: Australian women artists in early twentieth-century France, Monash University Press, 422/65, Jane Sullivan
GORNICK, Vivian, The Romance of American Communism, Verso, 427/67, Naish Gawen
GORRA, Michael, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, Liveright, 427/29, Paul Giles
GREEN, Jonathan, Meanjin Quarterly: Volume 79, Issue 2, Melbourne University Press, 423/68, Elizabeth Bryer
GREEN, Jonathon, Sounds and Furies: The love–hate relationship between women and slang, Robinson, 420/26, Amanda Laugesen
GREEN, Karen, Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Enlightenment, Routledge, 425/63, Janna Thompson
GREENSLADE, Francis, How I Learnt to Act: On the way to not going to drama school, Currency Press, 419/66, Tim Byrne
GRENVILLE, Kate, A Room Made of Leaves, Text, 424/30, Don Anderson
GUENIFFEY, Patrice (translated by Steven Rendall), Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and history, Harvard University Press, 427/55, Peter McPhee
GUILLAUME, Jenna, You Were Made for Me, Pan Macmillan, 425/32, Thuy On
HAMILTON, Clive and Mareike Ohlberg, Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world, Hardie Grant Books, 424/7, Ben Bland
HANNAN, Victoria, Kokomo, Hachette, 423/31, Jane Sullivan
HARDCASTLE, Sophie, Below Deck, Allen & Unwin, 420/49, Astrid Edwards
HAYES, Nick, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the lines that divide us, Bloomsbury, 427/63, Gregory Day
HAZZARD, Shirley, The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard, Virago, 427/34, Brenda Niall
HEFFER, Simon, Staring at God: Britain in the Great War, Random House, 420/15, Joan Beaumont
HENNESSY, Peter, Winds of Change: Britain in the early sixties, Allen Lane, 418/29, Glyn Davis
HILL, Barry, Eagerly We Burn: Selected poems 1980–2018, Shearsman Books, 420/41, Geoff Page
HINTON, Hilde, The Loudness of Unsaid Things, Hachette, 420/33, Naama Grey-Smith
HOARE, Judith, The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes, Scribe, 42046, Carol Middleton
HOFFMAN, Adina, Ben Hecht: Fighting words, moving pictures, Yale University Press, 418/62, Aaron Nyerges
HOLBROOK, Carolyn (ed.) and Keir Reeves (ed.), The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration, UNSW Press, 420/14, Kate Ariotti
HOLLAND, Eva, Nerve: A personal journey through the science of fear, Pantera Press, 424/64, Diane Stubbings
HORTON, Luke, The Fogging, Scribe, 423/33, Fiona Wright
IMMERWAHR, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: A short history of the greater United States, Bodley Head, 418/47, Andrew Broertjes
INGLIS, Ken et al., Dunera Lives, Volume II, Monash University Publishing, 425/14, Adam Wakeling
IRVING, Terry, The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe, Monash University Publishing, 423/26, Jon Piccini
JACCARD, Mark, The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming myths that hinder progress, Cambridge University Press, 422/52, Natalie Osborne
JAIRETH, Subhash, Spinoza’s Overcoat: Travels with writers and poets, Transit Lounge, 422/44, Dan Dixon
JAKU, Eddie, The Happiest Man on Earth, Macmillan, 425/35, Tali Lavi
JAMES, Clive, Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected writings on Philip Larkin, Picador, 419/32, Geoff Page
JANACZEWSKA, Noëlle, Scratchland, UWAP, 426/55, James Antoniou
JANSON, Julie, Benevolence, Magabala Books, 423/35, Jessica Urwin
JENNINGS, Kathleen, Flyaway, Picador, 426/31, Georgia White
JOHNSTON, Martin, Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems, Ligature, 427/43, John Hawke
JONES, Gail, Our Shadows, Text, 425/22, Sue Kossew
JONES, Peter, Vox Populi: Everything you wanted to know about the classical world but were afraid to ask, Atlantic, 421/51, Alastair Blanshard
JOSEPHSON, Paul R., Chicken: A history from farmyard to factory, Polity, 424/65, Ben Brooker
KAPLAN, James, Irving Berlin: New York genius, Yale, 421/63, Andrew Ford
KARSKENS, Grace, People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia, Allen & Unwin, 426/7, Alan Atkinson
KATZEN, Hayley, Untethered, Ventura Press, 422/46, Susan Varga
KEANE, John, The New Despotism, Harvard, 422/10, Glyn Davis
KELEN, Stephen K., A Happening in Hades, Puncher & Wattmann, 423/61, James Jiang
KELLY, Paul (ed.), Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly, Hamish Hamilton, 419/40, Kerryn Goldsworthy
KENEALLY, Meg, The Wreck, Echo, 427/35, Pip Smith
KENEALLY, Tom, The Dickens Boy, Vintage, 420/29, Georgie Williamson
KENT, Jacqueline, Vida: A woman for our time, Viking, 425/34, Sylvia Martin
KEYSSAR, Alexander, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, Harvard University Press, 424/13, Varun Ghosh
KHADER, Serene J., Decolonizing Universalism: A transnational feminist ethic, Oxford University Press, 418/51, Daniel Halliday
KINSELLA, John, Displaced: A rural life, Transit Lounge, 424/61, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
KIRK, Edwin, The Genes That Make Us: Human stories from a revolution in medicine, Scribe, 425/60, Diane Stubbings
KNOX, Malcolm, Bluebird, Allen & Unwin, 425/29, Jo Case
Koestenbaum, Wayne, Figure It Out: Essays, Soft Skull Press, 424/24, Keegan O’Connor
KOVAL, Ramona, A Letter to Layla: Travels to our deep past and near future, Text, 426/60, Danielle Clode
KRUIMINK, K.M., A Treacherous Country, Allen & Unwin, 422/29, Nicole Abadee
LAGUNA, Sofie, Infinite Splendours, Allen & Unwin, 426/34, Nicole Abadee
LAWSON, Valerie, Dancing Under the Southern Skies: A history of ballet in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/66, Luke Forbes
LE HUNTE, Bem, Elephants with Headlights, Transit Lounge, 422/31, Declan Fry
LEBRECHT, Norman, Genius and Anxiety: How Jews changed the world, 1847–1947, Oneworld, 423/54, Tali Lavi
LEE, Bri, Beauty, Allen & Unwin, 418/44, Suzy Freeman-Greene
LEE, Daniel, The SS Officer’s Armchair: In search of a hidden life, Jonathan Cape, 426/58, Robert Dessaix
LEE, Hermione, Tom Stoppard: A life, Knopf, 427/17, Geordie Williamson
LEE, Janet, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, modernity and the New Woman, Sydney University Press, 424/46, Susan Sheridan
LEFEVRE, Carol, Murmurations, Spinifex Press, 423/34, Josephine Taylor
LENNAN, Jo, In the Time of Foxes, Scribner, 424/31, Debra Adelaide
LERNER, Ben, The Topeka School, Granta, 418/34, Johanna Leggatt
LEVER Susan, Creating Australian Television Drama: A screenwriting history, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 425/51, Moya Costello
LI, Mary, Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer, Viking, 427/62, Jacqueline Kent
LILLEY, Kate, Tilt, Vagabond, 425/56, Anders Villani
LINZ, Talia and Michelle Newton (eds), Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre, Artspace Confort Moderne and UQ Art Museum, 421/58, Julie Ewington
LLORET, Bruno (translated by Ellen Jones), Nancy, Giramondo, 424/37, Elizabeth Bryer
LOHREY, Amanda, The Labyrinth, Text, 424/32, Morag Fraser
MABBERLEY, David J., Botanical Revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin, NewSouth, 419/46, Danielle Close
MACDONALD, Helen, Vesper Flights: New and collected essays, Jonathan Cape, 424/66, Andrew Fuhrmann
MACHADO, Carmen Maria, In the Dream House: A memoir, Serpent’s Tail, 419/34, Zora Simic
MACKENZIE, Jennifer, Navigable Ink, Transit Lounge, 423/61, James Jiang
MACLEAN, Kama, British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire, UNSW Press, 423/25, Chris Wallace
MACRIS, Anthony, Aftershocks: Selected writings and interviews, UWAP, 419/18, Kári Gíslason
MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Espionage Act: New poems, Quemar Press, 419/41, James Jiang
MAIDEN, Samantha, Party Animals: The secret history of a Labor fiasco, Viking, 421/30, Paul Williams
MANNING, Paddy, Body Count: How climate change is killing us (Second Edition), Simon & Schuster, 425/47, Timothy Neale
MANNIX, Anthony, The Toy of the Spirit, Puncher & Wattmann, 421/60, Barnaby Smith
MARANTZ, Andrew, Antisocial: How online extremists broke America, Picador, 420/17, Andrew Broertjes
MARGARET, Bearman, We Were Never Friends, Brio, 424/34, Mindy Gill
MARSHALL, Wayne, Shirl, Affirm Press, 420/32, Susan Midalia
MARTIN, Adrian, Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on film theory, history and culture, UWA Publishing, 424/62, Nicholas Bugeja
MARTIN, Sylvia, Sky Swimming: Reflection on auto/biography, people and place, UWA Publishing, 423/66, Sarah Walker
MARTINKUS, John, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, Black Inc., 424/11, Kieran Pender
MASLEN, Kylie, Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness, Text, 426/52, Kate Crowcroft
MASON, Meg, Sorrow and Bliss, Fourth Estate, 427/37, Alexandra Philp
MAYOR, Thomas, Finding the Heart of the Nation: The journey of the Uluru Statement towards voice, treaty and truth, Hardie Grant Books, 418/12, David Trigger
MAZZA, Donna, Fauna, Allen & Unwin, 422/35, Rosalind Moran
McConaghy, Charlotte, The Last Migration, Hamish Hamilton, 423/30, J.R. Burgmann
McGREGOR, Russell, Idling in Green Places: A life of Alex Chisholm, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/26, Danielle Clode
McKAY, Laura Jean, The Animals in That Country, Scribe, 421/38, Ben Brooker
McKINNEY, Meredith (ed.), Travels with a Painting Brush: Classical Japanese travel writing from the Manyōshū to Bashō, Penguin, 418/10, Barry Hill
McNEILL, Sophie, We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity, ABC Books, 421/50, Thomas McGee
McPHEE, Justin T., Spinning the Secrets of State: Politics and intelligence in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 427/13, Peter Edwards
McPHEE-BROWNE, Laura, Cherry Beach, Text, 421/53, Chloë Cooper
McTiernan, Dervla, The Good Turn, HarperCollins, 420/35, Kirsten Tranter
MEACHAM, Jon, His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the power of hope, 427/51, Varun Ghosh
MEXTED, Kathy, Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air, NewSouth, 427/64, Jay Daniel Thompson
MILDENHALL, Kate, The Mother Fault, Simon & Schuster, 427/41, Amy Baillieu
MILLER, Alex, Max, Allen & Unwin, 425/36, Jane Sullivan
MITCHELL, David, Utopia Avenue, Sceptre, 424/33, James Bradley
MOALEM, Sharon, The Better Half: On the genetic superiority of women, Allen Lane, 422/51, Zora Simic
MOLITORISZ, Sacha, Net Privacy: How we can be free in an age of surveillance, NewSouth, 422/42, Alex Tighe
MONAGHAN, Paul and Michael Walsh (eds), More Than Mere Words: Essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton, Wakefield Press, 427/56, Stephen Bennetts
MORALES, Helen, Antigone Rising: The subversive power of the ancient myths, Wildfire, 425/46, Greta Hawes
MORAN, Mark and Jodie Curth-Bibb (eds), Too Close to Ignore, Melbourne University Press, 424/11, Kieran Pender
MORRISON, Fiona, Christina Stead and the Matter of America, Sydney University Press, 419/33, Anne Pender
MUELLER, Tom, Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an age of fraud, Atlantic Books, 421/15, Kiernan Pender
MULLINS, Patrick, The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system, Scribe, 422/17, James Ley
NEWSTOK, Scott, How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance education, Princeton University Press, 424/57, David McInnis
NIALL, Brenda, Friends and Rivals: Four great Australian writers, Text, 421/28, Kerryn Goldsworthy
NOSKE, Catherine, The Salt Madonna, Picador, 419/26, Felicity Plunkett
NOWRA, Louis, Collected Stories, Arden, 419/25, Gerard Windsor
NUNEZ, Sigrid, What Are You Going Through: A novel, Virago, 427/40, Brenda Walker
O’BEIRNE, Sean, A Couple of Things Before the End, Black Inc., 420/32, Susan Midalia
O’NEILL, Betty, The Other Side of Absence: Discovering my father’s secrets, Ventura Press, 426/13, Iva Glisic
OCHOA, Gabriel García, The Hypermarket, LCG Media, 420/36, Cassandra Atherton
OGLE, Susan and Melanie Joosten (eds), A Lasting Conversation: Stories on ageing, 422/50, Kerryn Goldsworthy
ORD, Toby, The Precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity, Bloomsbury, 427/59, Robert Sparrow
ORESKES, Naomi, Why Trust Science?, Princeton University Press, 421/44, Diane Stubbings
OVENDON, Richard, Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack, John Murray, 425/53, Simon Caterson
PAGE, Tony, Anh and Lucien, UWAP, 426/55, James Antoniou
PATRICK, Aaron, The Surprise Party: How the coalition went from chaos to comeback, Black Inc., 418/19, Shaun Crowe
PERLSTEIN, Rick, Reaganland: America’s right turn 1976–-1980, Simon & Schuster, 427/52, Andrew Broertjes
PERRY, Kyle, The Bluffs, Michael Joseph, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
PERSSE, Jonathan, David Campbell: A life of the poet, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 424/16, Philip Mead
PHAM, Vivian, The Coconut Children, Vintage, 420/36, Sonia Nair
PIEPER, Liam, Sweetness and Light, Hamish Hamilton, 421/39, Jay Daniel Thompson
PIGGIN, Stuart and Robert D. Linder, Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians in Australian history 1914–2014, Monash University Publishing, 419/14, Hugh Chilton
PINNE, Peter and Peter Wyllie Johnston, The Australian Musical from the Beginning, Allen & Unwin, 419/67, Gillian Wills
PIPPOS, Andrew, Lucky’s, Picador, 426/33, Sonia Nair
PLIBERSEK, Tanya, Upturn: A better normal after Covid-19, NewSouth, 427/8, Morag Fraser
PLUNKETT, Felicity, A Kinder Sea, University of Queensland Press, 420/38, Philip Mead
POIRIER, Agnès, Notre-Dame: The soul of France, Oneworld, 424/63, Gemma Betros
POMARE, J.P., In the Clearing, Hachette, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
POPKIN, Jeremy D., A New World Begins: The history of the French Revolution, Basic Books, 425/49, Peter McPhee
POWER, Samantha, The Education of an Idealist: A memoir, William Collins, 418/46, Varun Ghosh
PROCTER, Alice, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums and why we need to talk about it, Hachette, 422/63, Meg Foster
PULLMAN, Philip, The Book of Dust, Volume Two: The secret commonwealth, Penguin and David Fickling Books, 419/22, Peter Craven
PURCELL, Leah, The Drover’s Wife: The legend of Molly Johnson, Hamish Hamilton, 419/24, Ellen van Neerven
PYBUS, Cassandra, Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse, Allen & Unwin, 420/11, Billy Griffiths
PYNE, Christopher, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble, Hachette, 423/19, James Walter
PYNE, Stephen J., Fire: A brief history, NewSouth, 425/47, Timothy Neale
RABY, Geoff, China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order, Melbourne University Press, 426/14, Hugh White
REAY, Barry, Trans America: A counter-history, Polity, 421/52, Yves Rees
REBANKS, James, English Pastoral: An inheritance, Allen Lane, 426/23, Andrew Fuhrmann
RÉE, Jonathan, Witcraft: The invention of philosophy in English, Allen Lane, 418/50, Janna Thompson
RICATTI, Francesco, Italians in Australia: History, memory, identity, Palgrave Macmillan, 418/49, Diana Glenn
RIELLY, Derek, Gulpilil, Macmillan, 418/27, Stephen Bennetts
RIWOE, Mirandi, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, University of Queensland Press, 421/49, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, Who Owns History? Elgin’s loot and the case for returning plundered treasure, Knopf, 419/44, Janna Thompson
ROBIN, Corey, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Henry Holt, 424/15, Heather Roberts
ROBINSON, Kim Stanley, The Ministry for the Future, Orbit, 425/27, J.R. Burgmann
ROBINSON, Marilynne, Jack, Hachette, 427/39, Alice Nelson
ROCKEL, Angela, Rogue Intensities, UWAP, 419/56, Rayne Allinson
ROWE, Josephine, On Beverley Farmer: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 427/30, Anna MacDonald
RUCKER, Philip and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s testing of America, Bloomsbury, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
RYAN, Brendan, The Lowlands of Moyne, Walleah Press, 420/39, David McCooey
SALOM, Philip, The Fifth Season, Transit Lounge, 427/36, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SAMSON, Polly, A Theatre for Dreamers, Bloomsbury, 412/34, Kirsten Tranter
SANDEL, Michael J., The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good?, Allen Lane, 427/14, Glyn Davis
SANDS, Philippe, The Ratline: Love, lies and justice on the trail of a Nazi fugitive, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 422/25, Sheila Fitzpatrick
SAVAGE, Ellena, Blueberries, Text, 420/24, Caitlin McGregor
SAVIGE, Jaya, Change Machine, University of Queensland Press, 425/55, Judith Bishop
SCALMER, Sean, Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the making of Australian politics, Monash University Publishing, 422/14, Benjamin T. Jones
SCHOLTE, Astrid, The Vanishing Deep, Allen & Unwin, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
SCOTT, Charlotte, The Child in Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, 424/56, Rayne Allinson
SCOTT, John A., Shorter Lives, Puncher & Wattmann, 423/59, Michael Farrell
SCOTT, Ronnie, The Adversary, Hamish Hamilton, 421/37, Alex Cothren
SCOTT, Stanley John, Chis: The life and work of Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888–1981), Ancora Press, 419/45, Colin Nettelbeck
SCRIMGEOUR, Anne, On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946–1949, Monash University Press, 420/12, Jan Richardson
SCULL, Andrew, Psychiatry and its Discontents, University of California Press, 421/54, James Dunk
SERONG, Jock, The Burning Island, Text, 424/38, Nicole Abadee
SIEGELBERG, Mira L., Statelessness: A modern history, Harvard University Press, 427/58, Ruth Balint
SILVEY, Craig, Honeybee, Allen & Unwin, 426/36, Anna MacDonald
SKIDELSKY, Robert, What’s Wrong with Economics? A primer for the perplexed, Yale University Press, 423/55, John Tang
SLUCKI, David, Sing This at my Funeral: A memoir of fathers and sons, Wayne State University Press, 418/63, Merav Fima
SMITH, Ali, Summer, Hamish Hamilton, 425/23, Felicity Plunkett
SMITH, Loretta, A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s first all-girl garage, Hachette, 418/32, Sharon Verghis
SMITH, Zadie, Intimations: Six essays, Penguin, 424/23, Tali Lavi
SOLNIT, Rebecca, Recollections of My Non-Existence, Granta, 421/43, Megan Clement
SPRAGUE, Quentin, The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting, Hardie Grant Books, 422/64, Luke Stegemann
STARR, Kimberley, Torched, Pantera Press, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
STEFFENSEN, Victor, Fire Country: How Indigenous fire management could help save Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 419/53, Tim Low
STONE, Oliver, Chasing the Light: How I fought my way into Hollywood: From the 1960s to Platoon, Oliver Stone, 425/50, Aaron Nyerges
SULLIVAN, Thom, Carte Blache, Vagabond Press, 420/39, David McCooey
SUNSTEIN, Cass R., Conformity: The power of social influences, New York University Press, 420/50, Russell Blackford
TAN, Elizabeth, Smart Ovens for Lonely People, Brio Books, 422/32, Lisa Bennett
TEMPLE, Peter, The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish, Text, 418/41, Chris Flynn
THEROUX, Paul, On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican road trip, Hamish Hamilton, 419/57, Gabriel García Ochoa
THOMAS, Daniel, Recent Past: Writing Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 427/20, Julie Ewington
THOMPSON, Barry Lee, Broken Rules and Other Stories, Transit Lounge, 425/32, Elizabeth Bryer
TICKNER, Robert, Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion, Scribe, 420/43, Josh Black
TOOHEY, Brian, Secret: The making of Australia’s security state, Melbourne University Press, 418/17, Kieran Pender
TREDINNICK, Mark, A Gathered Distance: Poems, Birdfish Books, 422/55, Geoff Page
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh and Richard Davenport-Hines (ed.), The China Journals: Ideology and intrigue in the 1960s, Bloomsbury, 426/16, Nicholas Jose
TROMLY, Benjamin, Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to free Russia, Oxford University Press, 419/42, Mark Edele
TRUMP, Mary, Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created the world’s most dangerous man, Simon & Schuster, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
TSIOLKAS, Christos, Damascus, Allen & Unwin, 418/38, Kerryn Goldsworthy
TU, Jessie, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, Allen & Unwin, 423/35, Astrid Edwards
TURNBULL, Malcolm, A Bigger Picture, Hardie Grant Books, 422/8, Judith Brett
TURNER, Todd, Thorn, Puncher & Wattmann, 427/46, Anders Villani
UGLOW, Jenny, Mr Lear: a life of art and nonsense, Faber, 419/39, James Antoniou
UHLMANN, Anthony, J.M. Coetzee: Truth, meaning, fiction, Bloomsbury Academic, 423/15, Paul Giles
VALLELY, Paul, Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg, Bloomsbury, 427/14, Glyn Davis
VISKIC, Emma, Darkness for Light, Echo, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
VOLK, Felicity, Desire Lines, Hachette, 420/28, Alice Nelson
WAGNER, Izabela, Bauman: A biography, Polity, 424/17, Anthony Elliott
WALLACE, Chris, How to Win an Election, NewSouth, 426/59, Nadia David
WARD, Donna, She I Dare Not Name: A spinster’s meditations on life, Allen & Unwin, 421/41, Jacqueline Kent
WATSON, Don, Watsonia: A writing life, Black Inc., 427/10, Frank Bongiorno
WESTE, Linda, Inside the Verse Novel: Writers on writing, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 424/54, Cassandra Atherton
WHISH-WILSON, David, True West, Fremantle Press, 419/28, Stephen Dedman
WHITE, Christian, The Wife and the Widow, Affirm Press, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
WHITTAKER, Alison (ed.), Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today, University of Queensland Press, 423/60, Declan Fry
WHYTE, Jessica, The Morals of the Market: Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism, Verso, 423/27, Benjamin Huf
WIENER, Anna, Uncanny Valley, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 420/44, Jack Callil
WILSON, A.N., The Mystery of Charles Dickens, Atlantic Books, 425/58, Graham Tulloch
WOOD, John, How I Clawed My Way to the Middle, Viking, 425/61, Diana Simmonds
WOODWARD, Bob, Rage, Simon & Schuster, 426/10, Gideon Haigh
WOTHERS, Peter, Antimony, Gold and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the elements were named, Oxford University Press, 419/50, Robyn Arianrhod
WYLD, Evie, The Bass Rock, Vintage, 419/27, Amy Baillieu
YOUNG, Georgina, Loner, Text, 425/32, Thuy On
ZEVIN, Alexander, Liberalism at Large: The world according to The Economist, Verso, 419/12, Dominic Kelly
Π.O., Heide, Giramondo, 418/61, James Jiang
2020 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Epiphany
DICKSON, Ian, ‘Applause, Applause: The education of an operamane’, 422/48
Film/Television/Streaming
A Hidden Life (Fox Searchlight Pictures / Disney), Jordan Prosser, online only
Hearts and Bones (Madman), 422/61, Jordan Prosser
Mank (Netflix), Barnaby Smith, online only
Mrs. America (Hulu/FX), Jordan Prosser, online only
Mystery Road (Bunya Productions), 423/71, Jordan Prosser
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Madman Films), Richard Leathem, online only
Ratched (Netflix), 426/63, Tim Byrne
The Boys in the Band (Netflix), 426/62, Dennis Altman
The Lighthouse (A24), Andrew Nette, online only
The Plot Against America (HBO), 422/67, Ben Brooker
The Professor and the Madman (Transmission Films), Barnaby Smith, online only
The Social Dilemma (Netflix), 425/16, Josh Krook
The Truth (Palace), 418/71, Felicity Chaplin
True History of the Kelly Gang (Stan), 419/63, Jordan Prosser
Uncut Gems (Netflix), Jack Callil, online only
Music
Messe de Minuit (Pinchgut Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Requiem (Festival d’Aix/Adelaide Festival), 421/62, Michael Morley
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, (Broadway.com), 422/59, Tim Byrne
The Sound of History: Beethoven, Napoleon and Revolution (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra), Peter Tregear, online only
Opera
Attila (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Così fan tutte (WA Opera), Humphrey Bower, online only
Fidelio (Melbourne Opera), 419/63, Elizabeth Kertesz
Fidelio (West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Asher Fisch), Will Yeoman, online only
La Bohème (Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Requiem (Adelaide Festival), Michael Morley, online only
Salome (Victorian Opera), 420/56, Michael Shmith
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, (State Opera South Australia), Ben Brooker, online only
Theatre
Cock, Cock … Who’s There? (Adelaide Festival), 422/66, Tali Lavi
Crunch Time (Ensemble Theatre), Seán Maroney, online only
Emerald City (MTC/Queensland Theatre), 420/58, Diane Stubbings
Home, I’m Darling (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings , online only
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (Belvoir St Theatre), 419/60, Susan Lever
My Brilliant Career (Belvoir St Theatre), Polly Simons, online only
Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA), Francesca Saisnatis, online only
Packer & Sons (Belvoir St Theatre), 418/67, Ian Dickson
The Curtain (fortyfivedownstairs), 420/57, Fiona Gruber
The Deep Blue Sea (Sydney Theatre Company), 419/61, Ian Dickson
The Doctor (Almeida Theatre/Adelaide Festival), Michael Morley, online only
The Doll (State Opera South Australia), 427/64, Ben Brooker
The Feather in the Web (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), Laura Hartnell, online only
The Great Australian Play (Theatre Works), Sarah Walker, online only
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sydney Theatre Company), Ian Dickson, online only
Torch the Place (Melbourne Theatre Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company), 426/61, Ian Dickson
Visual Arts
Assembled: The Art of Robert Klippel, (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 420/59, Patrick McCaughey
Feedback Loops (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Diego Ramirez, online only
Hugh Ramsay (National Gallery of Victoria), 418/69, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines (National Gallery of Victoria), 418/68, Sophie Knezic
Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (TarraWarra Museum of Art), Saskia Beudel, online only
Streeton (Art Gallery of New South Wales), Julie Ewington, online only
Tim, (Museum of Old and New Art), 421/59, Rayne Allinson
Book Talk
‘Diversity and Australian Literary Studies’, online only
‘PEN Melbourne supports Belarusian PEN and Svetlana Alexievich’, online only
‘Q&A with Monash intern Bernd Faveere’, online only
ADABEE, Nicole, ‘A perfect storm: Promoting new books in a time of isolation’, online only
GIANNOUKOS, Tina, ‘Two new poetry series: MPU and the year of the pandemic’, online only
HAWKE, John, ‘Poetry and Australian Book Review’, online only
LIN, Chris, ‘The Case for Myanmar’s Peacock Generation’, online only
ROSE, Peter, ‘Australian Book Review and the Australia Council’, online only
Essays and Commentary
ARCHER, Robyn, ‘“I spoke to many people and listened”: On living in a time of Covid-19’, 421/11
BLACK, Joshua, ‘After the waves: A tribute to a pioneering Labor feminist’, 426/50
FRICKER, David, ‘Questions of access: The National Archives responds to Jenny Hocking’s articles on the “Palace letters”’, 421/13
GRIFFITHS, Tom, ‘Season of Reckoning’, 419/9
HOCKING, Jenny, ‘At Her Majesty’s pleasure: Sir John Kerr and the royal dismissal secrets’, 420/8
HOLMES, David, ‘Listening to the science: Coronavirus and climate change’, 426/54
HOLMES, David, ‘Suddenly last summer: The politics of climate change in Australia’, 419/36
HUGHES-d’AETH, Tony, ‘Thinking in a regional accent: New ways of contemplating Australian writers’, 426/24
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Blankety-blank: The art of the euphemism’, 427/49
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Coronaspeak: Tracking language in a pandemic’, 422/40
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Crisis lexicon’, 419/17
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Whither wowser?’, 418/43
LEATHEM, Richard, ‘Celluloid Clouds: Cinema’s future in Australia’, 427/65
LEGGATT, Johanna, ‘New deserts: A worrying portent for our democracy’, 420/21
MUNZ, Martin, ‘Slurring a good name: The pitfalls of careless scholarship’, 426/12
REES, Yves, ‘Surging into the spotlight: Writing trans and gender-diverse lives’, 419/54
ROSE, Peter, ‘First the pandemic, then the Australia Council’, 421/1
STEVENS, Lara, ‘Acts of intimate banality: Questioning the axing of Casey Jenkin’s grant’, 427/50
TOCHKA, Nicholas, ‘“Fear of the latent germ”: Government versus artists during the Spanish Flu’, 422/60
WALKER, Sarah, ‘Contested breath: The ethics of assembly in an age of absurdity’, 422/20
WOOD, Robert, ‘Rights and responsibilities: Literary journals and freedom of expression’, 422/41
Fellowship Essays
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘Failures of imagination: A journey from Tehran’s prisons to Australia’s immigration detention centres’, 426/39
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘Notes on a pandemic: How society has responded to Covid-19’, 421/18
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
MIDDLETON, Kate, ‘The Dolorimeter’, 424/48
REES, Yves, ‘Reading the mess backwards’, 422/36
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
BROWN, Lachlan, ‘Precision Signs’, 418/54
COLEMAN, Claire G., ‘That Wadjela Tongue’, 418/56
GILLETT, Ross, ‘South Coast Sonnets’, 418/57
JOHNSON, Frances A., ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’, 418/53
MANNING, Julie, ‘Constellation of Bees’, 418/55
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
GARROW, C.J., ‘Egg Timer’, 423/36
HOLLANDER, Simone, ‘Hieroglyph’, 423/41
SAUNDERS, Mykaela, ‘River Story’, 423/45
Interviews
Open Page
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 423/69
BRADLEY, James, 421/56
CERIDWEN, Dovey, 418/64
CLODE, Danielle, 427/42
FIDLER, Richard, 425/62
FORD, Andrew, 419/58
LOHREY, Amanda, 424/40
PYBUS, Cassandra, 420/54
SILVEY, Craig, 426/38
Poet of the Month
ALIZADEH, Ali, 420/42
BISHOP, Judith, 426/57
DUGGAN, Laurie, 424/55
Publisher of the Month
CURRY, Jane, 419/38
GRANT, Sandy, 425/45
Critic of the Month
GILES, Paul, 427/32
Poetry
Poems
BEAVER, Bruce, ‘Sonnet for Dr Michael Kennedy’, 424/28
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Slaughter’, 427/21
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Portraits of the Future’, 426/22
BOYLE, Peter, ‘Crowded Out’, 423/58
DAY, Sarah, ‘To Hassan’, 426/46
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Dawn Solo’, 422/16
FITCH, Toby, ‘New Work Metaphorics’, 426/56
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘Vegas’, 419/30
GORTON, Lisa, ‘On the Characterisation of Male Poets’ Mothers’, 421/46
HARWOOD, Gwen, ‘Carnal Knowledge I’, 422/26
HENRY, Brian, ‘Same Mind’, 425/20
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Charm for 2020’, 424/26
KANE, Paul, ‘In the Luxembourg Gardens’, 421/16
KLEE, Louis, ‘Actually Existing Australia’, 425/38
LILLEY, Kate, ‘For Noting’, 425/52
MALOUF, David, ‘A Grace Note’, 423/17
ROSE, Peter, ‘Come, Memory’, 420/16
RULE, Belinda, ‘Birds’, 419/13
RYAN, Gig, ‘Fortune’s Favours’, 421/29
RYAN, Gig, ‘Simaetha’, 427/48
SAVIGE, Jaya, ‘Bach to the Fuchsia’, 422/34
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, ‘We Play and Hope’, 420/40
WATTISON, Meredith, ‘Votive’, 424/45
Surveys
Books of the Year
ALIZADEH, Ali, 427/23
ANDERSON, Don, 427/23
BIRCH, Tony, 427/23
BONGIORNO, Frank, 427/23
BRETT, Judith, 427/23
DAY, Gregory, 427/23
FRASER, Morag, 427/23
FRY, Declan, 427/23
GILES, Paul, 427/23
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 427/23
GRIFFITHS, Billy, 427/23,
HAWKE, John, 427/23
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 427/23
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 427/23
JOHNSON, Frances A., 427/23
KENT, Jacqueline, 427/23
KINSELLA, John, 427/23
LEY, James, 427/23
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 427/23
McCOOEY, David, 427/23
MEAD, Philip, 427/23
NELSON, Alice, 427/23
NIALL, Brenda, 427/23
PENDER, Kieran, 427/23
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 427/23
REES, Yves, 427/23
ROSE, Peter, 427/23
SILCOX, Beejay, 427/23
SYNDHAM, Susan, 427/23
WALKER, Brenda, 427/23
WALKER, Sarah, 427/23
WALTER, James, 427/23
WILLIAMS, Kim, 427/23
Publisher Picks
CURNOW, Meredith, 418/58
HOLLIER, Nathan, 418/58
HUGHES, Martin, 418/58
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 418/58
MILNE, Catherine, 418/58
RICHTER, Georgia, 418/58
SCOTT, Barry, 418/58
TUFFIELD, Aviva, 418/58
WATKINS, Robert, 418/58
WILLIAMS, Sophy, 418/58
Seismographs of the human heart
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 421/24
ALTMAN, Dennis, 421/24
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 421/24
de KRETSER, Michelle, 421/24
FLANNERY, Tim, 421/24
FLYNN, Chris, 421/24
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 421/24
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 421/24
MAHOOD, Kim, 421/24
NELSON, Alice, 421/24
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 421/24
ROSE, Peter, 421/24
TRANTER, Kirsten, 421/24
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, 421/24
Index for 2019: Nos 408–417 & online features
ABR Index 2019
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2019.
2019 Australian Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
ADELAIDE, Debra, The Innocent Reader: Reflections on reading and writing, Picador, 417/57, Susan Sheridan
ADELAIDE, Debra, Zebra & Other Stories, Picador, 409/55, David Haworth
ALEXANDER, Kirsten, Half Moon Lake, Bantam, 408/31, Jane Sullivan
ANDREW, Christopher, The Secret World: A history of intelligence, Allen Lane, 408/27, Kyle Wilson
ARAMBARU, Fernando (translated by Alfred MacAdam), Homeland, Picador, 412/37, Gabriel García Ochoa
ARIANRHOD, Robyn, Thomas Harriot: A life in science, Oxford University Press, 416/44, Elizabeth Finkel
Arrow, Michelle, The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia, NewSouth, 410/21, Zora Simic
ASHLEY, Melissa, The Bee and the Orange Tree, Affirm Press, 417/47, Lisa Bennett
ATWOOD, Margaret, The Testaments, Chatto & Windus, 416/35, Beejay Silcox
BALLESTRO, Andrea, A Future History of Water, Duke University Press, 415/21, Timothy Neale
BAMFORTH, Tom, The Rising Tide: Among the islands and atolls of the Pacific Ocean, Hardie Grant Books, 416/49, Ceridwen Spark
BARNS, Greg, Rise of the Right: The war on Australia’s liberal values, Hardie Grant Books, 410/33, Andrew Broertjes
BARTULIN, Lenny, Fortune, Allen & Unwin, 415/52, Francesca Sasnaitis
BATE, Jonathan, How the Classics Made Shakespeare, Princeton University Press, 414/56, David McInnis
BENJAMIN, Marina, Insomnia, Scribe, 408/41, Tali Lavi
BERMAN, Sheri, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the present day, Oxford University Press, 414/16, Rémy Davison
BEST, Gillian, The Last Wave, Text Publishing, 409/33, Rose Lucas
BIRD, Carmel, Field of Poppies, Transit Lounge, 416/38, Gregory Day
BISHOP, Alice, A Constant Hum, Text Publishing, 416/40, Debra Adelaide
BLACKFORD, Russell, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the future of liberalism, Bloomsbury, 409/14, Ceridwen Spark
BLAINEY, Ann, King of the Air: The turbulent life of Charles Kingford Smith, Black Inc., 412/49, Michael McGirr
BLAINEY, Geoffrey, Before I forget: An early memoir, Hamish Hamilton, 414/12, Brenda Niall
BONYHADY, Tim, The Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia, Text Publishing, 415/28, Libby Robin
BORNHOLDT, Jenny (ed.), Short Poems of New Zealand, Victoria University Press, 410/52, Joan Fleming
BOUVERIE, Tim, Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war, The Bodley Head, 415/54, Glyn Davis
BOX, Dan, Bowraville, Viking, 413/19, Stephen Dedman
BRAMSTON, Troy, Robert Menzies: The art of politics, Scribe, 412/50, Michael Sexton
BRANDS, Hal and Charles Edel, The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and world order, Yale University Press, 412/11, Rémy Davison
BREARLEY, Mike, On Cricket, Constable, 411/46, Gideon Haigh
BRETT, Judith, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting, Text Publishing, 411/11, Frank Bongiorno
BROOME, Richard et al., Mallee Country: Land, people, history, Monash University Publishing, 417/28, Lilian Pearce
BROWN, Kate, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl guide for the future, Allen Lane, 415/12, Sheila Fitzpatrick
BRUNDAGE, W. Fitzhugh, Civilizing Torture: An American tradition, Harvard University Press, 409/12, Prudence Flowers
BRYER, Elizabeth, From Here On, Monsters, Picador, 414/39, James Halford
BUI, Joey, Lucky Ticket, Text Publishing, 416/54, Cassandra Atherton
BULLOUGH, Oliver, Moneyland: Why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back, Profile Books, 411/14, Kieran Pender
BUTI, Antonio, A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow case, Fremantle Press, 413/16, Michael Winkler
BUTLER, Isaac and Dan Kois (eds), The World Only Spins Forward: The ascent of angels in America, Bloomsbury, 408/59, Tim Byrne\
CALDWELL, Lucy (ed.), Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, Faber, 414/47, Chris Flynn
CALIC, Marie-Janine (translated by Elizabeth Janik), The Great Cauldron: A history of southeastern Europe, Harvard University Press, 415/56, Iva Glisic
CAMPBELL, Craig and Debra Hayes, Jean Blackburn: Education, feminism and social justice, Monash University Publishing, 414/60, Ilana Snyder
CARR, Wally and Gaele Sobott, My Longest Round, Magabala Books, 413/16, Michael Winkler
CARROLL, Steven, The Year of the Beast, Fourth Estate, 209/27, Kerryn Goldsworthy
CARTER, David and Roger Osbourne, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, Sydney University Press, 413/48, Keyvan Allahyari
CHANIN, Eileen, Capital Designs: Australia House and visions of an imperial London, Austrlian Scholarly Publishing, 414/57, Jim Davidson
CHAPMAN, Simon and Fiona Crichton, Wind Turbine Syndrome: A communicated disease, Sydney University Press, 415/27, James Dunk
CHENG, Melanie, Room for a Stranger, Text Publishing, 411/36, Alice Nelson
CHIANG, Ted, Exhalation, Picador, 412/31, Lisa Bennett
CHIM, Wai, The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling, 417/54, Emily Gallagher
CICERO, Marcus Tullius, How to Be a Friend: An ancient guide to true friendship, online only, William Poulos
CLARKE, T.J., Heaven on Earth: Painting and the life to come, Thames & Hudson, 412/58, Christopher Allen
CLEARY, Simon, The War Artist, UQP, 410/41, Robin Gerster
COETZEE, J.M., The Death of Jesus, Text Publishing, 415/42, James Ley
COLEMAN, Claire G., The Old Lie, Hachette, 414/30, Alison Whittaker
COLES, David, Chromatopia: An illustrated history of colour, Thames & Hudson, 408/63, Simon Caterson
CONDON, Matthew, The Night Dragon, University of Queensland Press, 414/55, Ben Smith
COOKE, Richard, Tired of Winning: A chronicle of American decline, Black Inc., 412/52, Varun Ghosh
CORNGOLD, Stanley, Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, humanist, heretic, Princeton University Press, 410/56, Lewis Rosenberg
COSTELLO, Tim, A Lot with a Little, Hardie Grant Books, 415/63, Jacqueline Kent
COTTE, Sabine, Mirka Mora: A life making art, Thames & Hudson, 416/45, Carol Middleton
CROALL, Jonathan, Performing Hamlet: Actors in the modern age, Bloomsbury, 408/58, Brian McFarlane
CROGGON, Alison, Remembered Presences: Responses to theatre, Currency Press, 411/21, Ben Brooker
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie, City of Trees: Essays on life, death and the need for a forest, Text Publishing, 411/9, Johanna Leggatt
CURRAN, Andrew S., Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, Other Press, 411/42, Peter McPhee
CUSK, Rachel, Coventry: Essays, Faber & Faber, 417/12, Johanna Leggatt
D’ANGOUR, Armand, Socrates in Love: The making of a philosopher, Bloomsbury, 413/59, Julia Kindt
DABASHI, Hamid, The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as world literature, Columbia University Press, 411/56, Darius Sepehri
DALE, John (ed.), Sydney Noir, Brio Books, 408/34, Chris Flynn
DALTON, Robyn and Laura Ginters, The Ripples Before the New Wave: Drama at the University of Sydney 1957–1963, Currency Press, 411/23, Gillian Appleton
DAMOUSI, Joy, and Judith Smart (eds), Contesting Australian History: Essays in honour of Marilyn Lake, 412/54, Christina Twomey
DAPIN, Mark, Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs history, NewSouth, 411/20, Michael Sexton
DEL AMO, Jean-Baptiste (translated by Frank Wynne), Animalia, Text Publishing, 413/55, Phoebe Weston-Evans
DELARGY, James, 55, Simon & Schuster, 411/34, Chris Flynn
DENNISS, Richard, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next, Black Inc., 412/53, Rubik Roy
DI FIGUEIREDO, Ivo (translated by Robert Ferguson), Henrik Ibsen: The man and the mask, Yale University Press, 414/51, Kári Gíslason
DIAMOND, Jared, Upheaval: How nations cope with crisis and change, online only, Tim Rowse
DIBBLE, Jeremy and Julian Horton (eds), British Music Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950, online only, Peter Tregear
DISHER, Garry, Kill Shot, Text Publishing, 409/57, David Whish-Wilson
DIXON, R.M.W., Australa’s Original Languages: An introduction, Allen & Unwin, 413/20, Bruce Moore
DOIG, Tom, Hazelwood, Viking, 412/17, Alistair Thomson
DOTEN, Mark, Trump Sky Alpha, Graywolf Press, 411/26, Beejay Silcox
DUNK, James, Bedlam at Botany Bay, NewSouth, 412/13, Alan Atkinson
EADES, Quinn and Son Vivienne (eds), Going Postal: More than ‘yes’ or ‘no’, one year on, online only, Stephen A. Russell
EDGERTON, David, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history, Allen Lane, 408/23, Simon Tormey
ELLMANN, Lucy, Ducks, Newburyport, Text Publishing, 417/45, Shannon Burns
ELVEY, Anne, White on White, Cordite Books, 408/50, Amy Lin
ERNAUX, Annie (translated by Alison L. Strayer), The Years, Seven Stories Press, 409/38, Gemma Betros
EVANS, Alison, Highway Bodies, Echo Publishing, 412/38, Emily Gallagher
EXTINCTION REBELLION, This is Not a Drill, Penguin Press, 415/10, Tim Flannery
FABER, Toby, Faber &Faber: The untold history of a great publishing house, Faber & Faber, 412/56, Jacqueline Kent
FAGAN, Brian, A Little History of Archaeology, Yale University Press, 413/30, Kelly D. Wiltshire
FARMAN, Jason, Delayed response: The art of waiting from the ancient to the instant world, Yale University Press, 410/28, Alex Tighe
FARRELL, Michael (ed.), Ashbery Mode, Tinfish Press, 416/57, John Hawke
FEATHERSTONE, Nigel, Bodies of Men, Hachette, 413/54, Patrick Allington
FERGUSON, Adele, Banking Bad, ABC Books, 416/27, Ben Huf
FERGUSON, Melissa, The Shining Wall, Transit Lounge, 411/39, Jacinta Mulders
FINNEY, Vanessa, Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Austrlkaian Museuem 1857–1893, NewSouth/Australian Museum, 410/13, Philip Jones
FLEMING, Chris, On Drugs, Giramondo, 416/20, James Antoniou
FORBES, Angus, Global Planet Authority: How we’re about to save the biosphere, LID Publishing, 415/10, Tim Flannery
FOX, Candice, Gone by Midnight, Bantam, 409/58, David Whish-Wilson
FOX, Charlie, This Young Monster, Brow Books, 411/24, Keegan O’Connor
FOX, Helena, How it Feels to Float, Macmillan, 412/38, Emily Gallagher
FOX, Peggy L. and Thomas Keith (eds), The Luck of Friendship: The letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, W.W. Norton & Company, 408/44, Ian Dickson
FRAME, Tom (ed.), Back from the Brink, 1997-2001: The Howard Government Volume II, UNSW Press, 408/49, Lyndon Megarrity
FRAME, Tom, Gun Control: What Australia got right (and wrong), UNSW Press, 415/60, Kieran Pender
FRASER, Peg, Black Saturday: Not the end of the story, Monash University Publishing, 412/16, Daniel May
FREW, Peggy, Islands, Allen & Unwin, 420/38, Bronwyn Lea
FUREDI, Frank, How Fear Works: Culture of fear in the twenty-first century, online only, Adrian Walsh
GARNER, Helen, Yellow Notebook: Diaries, volume 1, 1978–1987, Text Publishing, 417/10, Peter Rose
GAYNOR, Andrea (ed.), George Seddon: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 417/61, Judith Brett
GILES, Paul, Backgazing: Reverse time in Modernist culture, Oxford University Press, 417/56, Philip Mead
GILLING, Tom, Project Rainfall: The secret history of Pine Gap, Allen & Unwin, 415/23, Alison Broinowski
GILMOUR, Bejamin, The Gap: An Australian paramedic’s summer on the edge, Viking, 415/39, Nicholas Bugeja
GIRIDHARADAS, Anand, Winners Take All: The elite charade of changing the world, Allen Lane, 412/8, Glyn Davis
GLEESON, Kate and Catherine Lumby (eds), The Age of Consent: Young people, sexual abuse and agency, UWA Publishing, 414/61, Dean Biron
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Invented Lives, Scribe, 410/39, Francesca Sasnaitis
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, Minotaur, Viking, 413/53, Chris Flynn
GOODALL, Jane R., The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia, NewSouth, 415/58, Judith Brett
GOPNIK, Adam, A Thousand Small Sanities: The moral adventure of liberalism, riverrun, 414/15, Russell Blackford
GORDON-SMITH, Eleanor, Stop Being Reasonable, NewSouth, 412/18, Alex Tighe
GORMAN, Ginger, Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout, Hardie Grant Books, 409/53, Jacinta Mulders
GORTON, Lisa, Empirical, Giramondo, 415/65, David McCooey
GRANT, Neil, The Honeyman and the Hunter, Allen & Unwin, 412/38, Emily Gallagher
GRANT, Stan, Australia Day, HarperCollins, 413/10, Bruce Pascoe
GRANT, Stan, On Identity, Melbourne University Press, 413/10, Bruce Pascoe
GREENBLATT, Stephen, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, Bodley Head, 409/47, David McInnis
GREENWICH, Alex and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s journey to marriage equality, online only, Stephen A. Russell
HALFORD, James, Requiem with Yellow Butterflies, UWA Publishing, 412/55, Alice Whitmore
HALL, Doug, Present Tense: Anna Schwartz gallery and thirty-five years of contemporary Australian art, Black Inc., 416/15, Sophie Knezic
HAM, Paul, New Jerusalem, William Heinemann, 410/55, Paul Collins
HARDING, Christopher, Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to present, Allen Lane, 410/48, Alison Broinowski
HARRIS, Robert, The Gang of One: Selected poems, Grand Parade Poets, 413/46, Judith Bishop
HASTE, Cate, Passionate Spirit: The life of Alma Mahler, Bloomsbury, 417/29, Ian Dickson
HAWKE, Steve, The Valley, Fremantle Press, 408/32, Helena Kadmos
HAYES, Patrick and Jan Wilm (eds), Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literatures, philosophy and J.M. Coetzee, OUP, 410/26, Tim Mehigan
HEISS, Anita (ed.), Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, Black Inc., 413/41, David Haworth
HENNETTE, Stéphanie et al., How to Democratize Europe, Harvard University Press (Footprint), 417/24, Paul Muldoon
HILL, Jess, See What You Made Me Do: Power, control and domestic abuse, Black Inc., 414/10, Zora Simic
HOBAN, Mary, An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold, Scribe, 411/40, Jim Davidson
HOOTON, Matthew, Typhoon Kingdom, UWA Publishing, 412/30, Alison Broinowski
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel (translated by Shaun Whiteside), Serotonin, William Heinemann, 417/48, David Jack
HUBER, Florian (translated by Imogen Taylor), Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The mass suicides of ordinary Germans in 1945, Text Publishing, 414/13, Alexander Wells
HURLEY, Susan, Eight Lives, Affirm Press, 412/32, Stephen Dedman
HUSTVEDT, Siri, Memories of the Future, Sceptre, 411/33, James Ley
ISAACS, David, Defeating the Ministers of Death: The compelling history of vaccination, Harpercollins, 413/58, Euzebieusz Jamrozik
JACKSON, Julian, A Certain Idea of France: The life of Charles de Gaulle, Allen Lane, 409/36, Rémy Davison
JAMES, Clive, Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected writings on Philip Larkin, online only, Geoff Page
JAMISON, Leslie, The Recovering: Intoxication and its aftermath, Granta, 408/42, Lucas Thompson
JINKS, Catherine, Shepherd, Text Publishing, 414/40, David Whish-Wilson
JOHNSON, Stephanie, West Island: Five twentieth-century New Zealanders in Australia, Otago University Press, 417/41, Brian Matthews
JONES, Benjamin T., Frank Bongiorno, and John Uhr (eds), Elections Matter: Ten Federal elections that shaped Australia, Monash University Publishing, 410/47, Lyndon Megarrity
JONES, Jannali, My Father’s Shadow, Magabala Books, 417/54, Emily Gallagher
KAMINSKY, Leah, The Hollow Bones, Vintage, 410/49, Jacinta Mulders
KANTOR, Jodi and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement, Bloomsbury Circus, 417/8, Zora Simic
KAUFMANN, Eric, Whiteshift: Populism, immigration and the future of white majorities, Allen Lane, 410/29, Simon Tormey
KELLY, Dominic, Political Troglodytes and economic lunatics: the hard right in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 410/33, Andrew Broertjes
KEMP, David, The Land of Dreams: How Australians won their freedom, 1788-1860, Miegunyah Press, 408/13, Alan Atkinson
KENEALLY, Meg, Fled, Echo Publishing, 412/32, Kerryn Goldsworthy
KENT, Jacqueline, Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook, UQP, 409/29, Susan Sheridan
KENWOOD, Nina, It Sounded Better in My Head, Text Publishing, 417/54, Emily Gallagher
KINSELLA, John, Hollow Earth, Transit Lounge, 415/47, Chris Flynn
KINSELLA, John, Lucida Intervalla, UWA Publishing, 409/24, Francesca Sasnaitis
KISSANE, Andy, David Musgrave, and Carolyn Rickett (eds.), Feeding the Ghost 1: Criticism on contemporary Australian poetry, Puncher & Wattmann, 408/48, John Hawke
KISSANE, Andy, The Tomb of the Unknown Artist, Puncher & Wattmann, 412/57, Geoff Page
KOFMAN, Lee, Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become, Affirm Press, 409/52, Tali Lavi
KOHLER, Alan, It’s Your Money: How banking went rogue, where it is now and how to protect and grow your money, Nero, 416/28, Ben Huf
KON-YU, Natalie et al. (eds), #MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement, Picador, 412/41, Zora Simic
KRIEN, Anna, Act of Grace, Black Inc., 415/46, Alice Nelson
LACKEY, Jennifer, Academic Freedom, online only, Ronan McDonald
LAHIRI, Jhumpa (ed.), The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, Penguin Classics, 416/41, Rita Wilson
LAKE, Marilyn, Progressive New World: How settler colonialism and transpacific exchange shaped American reform, Harvard University Press, 409/9, Ian Tyrell
LAMSTER, Mark, Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century, Little, Brown, 414/58, Patrick McCaughey
LANCHESTER, John, The Wall, Faber & Faber, 411/26, Beejay Silcox
LANDRAGIN, Alex, Crossings, Picador, 412/36, Amy Baillieu
LAWRENCE, Susan and Peter Davies, Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields, La Trobe University Press, 415/18, Alexandra Roginski
LAYMAN, Lenore and Gail Phillips, Asbestos in Australia: From boom to dust, Monash University Publishing, 415/17, Graeme Davison
LE, Nam, On David Malouf, Black Inc., 411/12, Peter Rose
LEE, Christopher, Postcolonial heritage and settler well-being: The historical fictions of Roger McDonald, Cambria Press, 413/45, Robin Gerster
LEFEVRE, Carol, The Happiness Glass, Spinifex Press, 410/40, Susan Varga
LEGGE, Kate, Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story, Miegunyah Press, 410/50, Jarrod Hore
LEHMANN, Geoffrey, Leeward: A memoir, NewSouth, 408/26, Morag Fraser
LEPORE, Jill, These Truths: A history of the United States, W.W. Norton & Company, 408/22, Ben Vine
LESER, David, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing, Allen & Unwin, 414/23, Paul Dalgarno
LEW, Emma, Crow College: New and selected poems, Giramondo, 411/55, Judith Bishop
LIPSTADT, Deborah, Antisemitism: Here and now, Scribe, 413/60, Ilana Snyder
LLEWELLYN, Caro, Diving into Glass: A memoir, Hamish Hamilton, 410/59, Astrid Edwards
LOBB, Joshua, The Flight of Birds: A novel in twelve stories, Sydney University Press, 417/44, Sascha Morrell
LONGERICH, Peter (translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe), Hitler: A life, Oxford University Press, 415/53, Philip Dwyer
LUKIANOFF, Greg and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind, Allen Lane, 411/48, David Rolph
LYDON, Jane (ed.), Visualising Human Rights, UWA Publishing, 409/31, Alison Stieven-Taylor
MACAULEY, Wayne, Simpson Returns: A novella, Text Publishing, 411/31, Alex Cothren
MacDONALD, Reg, The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, a biography, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 409/32, Sheridan Palmer
MACFARLANE, Robert, Underland: A deep time journey, Hamish Hamilton, 416/47, Alison Pouliot
MADDISON, Sarah, The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems, Allen & Unwin, 413/22, Richard J. Martin
MALCOLM, Elizabeth and Dianne Hall, A New History of the Irish in Australia, NewSouth, 409/11, Michael McGirr
MANNING, Paddy, Born to Rule?, Melbourne University Press, 409/16, Paul Williams
MARCUS, Sharon, The Drama of Celebrity, online only, James Antoniou
MARES, Peter, No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s housing crisis, Text Publishing, 409/22, Tom Bamforth
MARTEL, Frédéric, In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, homosexuality, hypocrisy, Bloomsbury, 410/8, Barney Zwartz
MARTIN, Peter, The Dictionary Wars: The American fight over the English language, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 417/40, Bruce Moore
MATHEWS, Iola, Winning for Women: A personal story, online only, Noel Turnbull
McEwan, Ian, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, 411/30, Paul Giles
McGAHAN, Andrew, The Rich Man’s House, Allen & Unwin, 414/29, James Bradley
McLEAN, Felicity, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone, HarperCollins, 412/39, Dean Biron
MCPHEE, Hilary, Other People’s Houses, Melbourne University Press, 416/18, Jane Cadzow
McTIERNAN, Dervla, The Scholar, HarperCollins, 409/57, David Whish-Wilson
MENDELSSOHN, Joanna et al., Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our eyes, Thames & Hudson, 408/60, Ron Radford
MORIARTY, Jaclyn, Gravity Is The Thing, Pan Macmillan, 411/38, Naama Grey-Smith
MOSER, Benjamin, Sontag: Her life, Ecco, 416/17, Paul Kildea
MOUNT, Ferdinand, Prime Movers: From Pericles to Gandhi: Twelve great political thinkers and what’s wrong with each of them, Simon & Schuster, 410/30, Glyn Davis
MULLINS, Patrick, Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon, Scribe, 408/16, James Walter
MUNDELL, Meg, The Trespassers, University of Queensland Press, 416/39, Amy Baillieu
MURNANE, Gerald, A Season on Earth, Text Publishing, 410/36, Paul Giles
MURNANE, Gerald, Green Shadows and Other Poems, Giramondo, 409/46, Geoff Page
MURPHY, Philip, The Empire’s New Clothes: The myth of the Commonwealth, Hurst & Company, Jim Davidson
NIEHAUS, Amanda, The Breeding Season, Allen & Unwin, 415/50, Fiona Wright
NOEL-TOD, Jeremy, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Penguin Classics, 414/62, John Hawke
NOGRADY, Bianca (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2019, NewSouth, 417/60, Robyn Arianrhod
NOLAN, Justine and Martijn Boersma, Addressing Modern Slavery, UNSW Press, 415/61, Sayomi Ariyawansa
O’CALLAGHAN, Amanda, This Taste for Silence: Stories, University of Queensland Press, 414/26, Bronwyn Lea
OLSEN, Penny and Lynette Russell, Australia’s First Naturalists: Indigenous peoples’ contribution to early zoology, NLA Publishing, 413/18, Anna Clark
OLSEN, Penny, Night Parrot: Australia’s most elusive bird, CSIRO Publishing, 411/58, Neil Murray
ORCHARD, Sonia, Into the Fire, Affirm Press, 411/37, Keyvan Allahyari
PACKER, George, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, online only, Benjamin Madden
PARRETT, Favel, There Was Still Love, Hachette, 416/37, Anna MacDonald
PASCOE, Bruce, Salt: Selected stories and essay, Black Inc., 416/29, Steven Kinnane
PENDER, Anne, Seven Big Australians: Adventures with comic actors, Monash University Publishing, 412/59, Desley Deacon
PEPPIATT, Michael, The Existential Englishman: Paris among the artists, Bloomsbury, 411/45, Gemma Betros
PERKINS, Cathy, The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, Monash University Publishing, 417/17, Brenda Niall
PERLMAN, Elliot, Maybe the Horse Will Talk, Vintage, 417/43, Chris Flynn
PETTIT, Philip (edited by Kinch Hoekstra with Michael Tomasello), The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the role and nature of morality, OUP, 411/47, David Neil
PETTITT-SCHIPP, Renee, The Sky Runs Right Through Us, UWA Publishing, 408/50, Amy Lin
PFEIFFER, Dan, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump, Hardie Grant, 408/19, Varun Ghosh
POGREBIN, Robin and Kate Kelly, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, Portfolio, 417/8, Zora Simic
POLAIN, Marcella, Driving Into The Sun, Fremantle Press, 411/39, Stephen Dedman
POLITES, Peter, The Pillars, Hachette, 414/46, Crusader Hillis
RANKIN, Joy Lisi, A People’s History of Computing in the United States, Harvard University Press, 410/58, Josh Specht
RASMUSSEN, Carolyn, The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambition, Melbourne University Press, 410/45, Jacqueline Kent
REYNOLDS, David and Vladimir Pechatnov (eds), The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, Yale University Press, 410/11, Sheila Fitzpatrick
RHODES, Ben, The World as it is: Inside the Obama White House, The Bodley Head, 408/19, Varun Ghosh
RICHARDS, Kate, Fusion, Hamish Hamilton, 409/28, Chris Murray
RIPPON, Gina, The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, Bodley Head, 409/49, Nick Haslam
ROBERTS, Claire and John Thompson (eds), Ian Fairweather: A life in letters, Text Publishing, 416/13, Morag Fraser
ROBINSON, Alice, The Glad Shout, Affirm Press, 410/43, Jane Rawson
ROBINSON, Suzanne, Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and critic, University of Illinois Press (Footprint), 416/42, Suzanne Robinson
RODDAN, Michael, The People vs the Banks, Melbourne University Press, 416/27, Ben Huf
RODRIGUEZ, Judith, The Feather Boy & Other Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 409/44, Jennifer Strauss
ROMER, Anna, Under the Midnight Sky, Simon & Shuster, 411/34, Chris Flynn
ROSE, Heather, Bruny, Allen & Unwin, 415/51, Nicole Abadee
ROSENTHAL, Daniel (ed.), Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre, Profile Books, 410/44, Ian Dickson
ROUPENIAN, Kristen, You Know You Want This, Jonathan Cape, 409/56, Amy Baillieu
ROWE, Josephine, Here until August: Stories, Black Inc., 414/26, Bronwyn Lea
RUNDLE, Guy, Practice: Journalism, essays and criticism, Black Inc., 411/57, Ryan Cropp
RUSBRIDGER, Alan, Breaking News: The remaking of journalism and why it matters now, Canongate, 408/11, Jane Cadzow
SALOM, Philip, The Returns, Transit Lounge, 414/31, Brenda Walker
SALUSINSZKY, Imre, The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga, Melbourne University Press, 417/59, Jacqueline Kent
SANYAL, Mithu, Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo, Verso, 414/10, Zora Simic
SAVVA, Nikki, Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension, Scribe, 413/25, Paul Williams
SCHOLTE, Astrid, Four Dead Queens, Allen & Unwin, 412/38, Emily Gallagher
SCHUBERT, Steven, Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town, ABC Books, 416/51, Russell Marks
SCHWEBLIN, Samanta (translated by Megan McDowell), Mouthful of Birds: Stories, Oneworld, 413/56, James Halford
SEAMER, Peter, Breaking Point: The future of Australian cities, Nero, 411/50, Tom Bamforth
SEGEV, Tom (translated by Haim Watzman), A State at Any Cost: The life of David Ben-Gurion, Head of Zeus, 416/25, Ilana Snyder
SENDZIUK, Paul and Robert Foster, A History of South Australia, Cambridge University Press, 410/16, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SENECA, How To Keep Your Cool: An ancient guide to anger management, online only, William Poulos
SHEARSTON, Trevor, Hare’s Fur, Scribe, 409/58, Jack Callil
SHILTON, Leni, Walking With Camels: The story of Bertha Strehlow, UWA Publishing, 410/51, Jen Webb
SIMONS, Margaret, Penny Wong: Passion and principle, Black Inc., 417/16, Angela Woollacott
SIMPSON, James, Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism, Harvard University Press, 413/42, Paul Giles
SMEE, Sebastian, Net Loss: The inner life in the digital age (Quarterly Essay 72), Black Inc., 408/29, Alex Tighe
SMITH, Ali, Spring, Hamish Hamilton, 412/26, Jack Callil
SMITH, Zadie, Grand Union: Stories, Hamish Hamilton, 417/46, Astrid Edwards
SMYTH, Katharine, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking solace in Virginia Woolf, Atlantic Books, 416/55, Ann-Marie Priest
SNOWDEN, Edward, Permanent Record, Macmillan, 417/13, Brian Toohey
SOLNIT, Rebecca, Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays), Granta, 409/50, Daniel Juckes
SPARROW, Jeff, Trigger Warnings: Political correctness and the rise of the right, Scribe, 410/17, Russell Blackford
SPECHT, Joshua, Red Meat Republic: A hoof-to-table history of how beef changed America, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 416/53, Cameo Dalley
STEINBERG, Peter K. and Karen V. Kukil (eds), The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2: 1956-1963, Faber, 408/8, Sarah Holland-Batt
SUARES, Julie, J.B. Chifley: An ardent internationalist, Melbourne University Publishing, 417/25, David Lowe
SULLIVAN, Jane, Storytime: Growing up with books, Ventura Press, 416/56, Margaret Robson Kett
SVED, Miriam, A Universe of Sufficient Size, Picador, 410/42, Naama Grey-Smith
SWINN, Louise (ed.), Choice words: A collection of writing about abortion, Allen & Unwin, 410/20, Suzy Freeman-Greene
TADDEO, Lisa, Three Women, Bloomsbury Circus, 415/38, Astrid Edwards
TAN, Shaun, Tales from the Inner City, Allen & Unwin, 408/35, Danielle Clode
TANNER, Lindsay, Comeback, Scribe, 411/34, Chris Flynn
THOMAS, Keith, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and civilization in early modern England, Yale, 408/15, Ian Donaldson
THOMPSON, Christina, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, HarperCollins, 412/42, Ceridwen Spark
THOMSON, Mike, Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and redemption in a town under siege, Weidenfield and Nicholson, 415/39, Beejay Silcox
THROSBY, Holly, Cedar Valley, Allen & Unwin, 408/30, Alice Nelson
THUNBERG, Greta, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference, Penguin Press, 415/10, Tim Flannery
TIFFANY, Carrie, Exploded View, Text Publishing, 409/25, James Ley
TILLEY Paul, Changing Fortunes: A history of the Australian treasury, Melbourne University Press, 417/39, Geoffrey Blainey
TOLENTINO, Jia, Trick Mirror: Reflections on self-delusion, Fourth Estate, 413/38, Dan Dixon
TRELOAR, Lucy, Wolfe Island, Picador, 414/38, Naama Grey-Smith
VAN LOON, Julienne, The Thinking Woman, NewSouth, 409/48, Johanna Leggatt
VERHOEVEN, Timothy, Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America, Palgrave Macmillan, 411/41, Ian Tyrell
WAKEFIELD, Vikki, This Is How We Change the Ending, Text Publishing, 417/54, Emily Gallagher
WALKER, Alan, Frederyk Chopin: A life and times, Faber & Faber, 409/34, Paul Kildea
WALLACE-WELLS, David, The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future, Allen Lane, 411/51, Deb Anderson
WALTER, James, Inside the Greens: The origins and future of the party, the people and the politics, Black Inc., 416/23, James Walter
WALWICZ, Ania, Horse, UWA Publishing, 408/33, Bernard Cohen
WARDE, Paul, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sorlin, The Environment: A history of the idea, Johns Hopkins University Press, 408/39, James Dunk
WARNER, Dave, Rivers of Salt, Fremantle Press, 411/34, Chris Flynn
WARREN, Matthew, Blackout: how is energy-rich Australia running out of electricity?, Affirm Press, 412/15, Kate Griffiths
WATSON, Fred, Cosmic Chronicles: A user’s guide to the universe, NewSouth, 416/50, Robyn Williams
WHITE, Hugh, How to Defend Australia, La Trobe University Press, 414/21, Chengxin Pan
WHITE, Jessica, Hearing Maud, UWA Publishing, 414/54, Rachel Robertson
WHITINGTON, Anthropogenic Rivers: The production of uncertainty in Lao hydropower, Cornell University Press, 415/21, Timothy Neale
WHITTAKER, Alison, Blakwork, Magabala Books, 410/51, Jen Webb
WHITTIER TREAT, John, The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Chicago Press, 409/59, Mark Gibeau
WIGGLESWORTH, Mark, The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters, Faber & Faber, 414/64, Paul Kildea
WILDING, Michael, Wild About Books: Essays on books and writing, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 417/57, Susan Sheridan
WINEAPPLE, Brenda, The Impeachers: The trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation, Random House, 417/22, Samuel Watts
WINTERSON, Jeanette, Frankissstein: A love story, Jonathan Cape, 412/29, Nicole Abadee
WOMERSLEY, Chris, A Lovely and Terrible Thing, Picador, 411/32, Brenda Walker
WOOD, Charlotte, The Weekend, Allen & Unwin, 416/32, Felicity Plunkett
WOOLLACOTT, Angela, Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia, Allen & Unwin, 415/62, Christina Slade
WULF, Andrea (ed.), Alexander von Humboldt: Selected writings, Everyman, 414/20, Tom Griffiths
ZIFFER, Daniel, A Wunch of Bankers: A year in the Hayne Royal Commission, Scribe, 416/28, Ben Huf
ZUBRZYCKI, John, Empire of Enchantment: The story of Indian magic, Scribe, 408/51, Alexandra Roginski
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Arts commentary
DICKSON, Ian, ‘Letter from Bucharest’, online only
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, ‘The Golden Age on St Kilda Road’, 412/68
SHMITH, Michael, ‘Musician of the world: A tribute to Andrew Davis’, online only
Dance
Burrbgaja Yalirra (Marrugeku), online only, Amelia Zhou
Epiphany
ARCHER, Robyn, ‘Braving Glyndebourne’, 412/67
CHEETHAM, Deborah, ‘A Night at the Opera’, 413/62
GRIFFITHS, Jane Montgomery, ‘Becoming Electra’, 414/71
Festivals
2019 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, online only, Des Cowley
2019 Stonnington Jazz Festival, online only, Des Cowley
Light and The Dark Master (OzAsia Festival), online only, Ben Brooker
Film
1985 (EPK), online only, Stuart Richards
All Is True (Sony), 412/65, Johanna Leggatt
Anne Frank: Parallel Stories (Sharmill Films), 416/66, Tali Lavi
At Eternity’s Gate (Transmission Films), online only, Jack Callil
Burning (Palace Films), 411/67, Richard Leathem
By the Grace of God (Sharmill Films), online only, Nicholas Bugeja
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (Transmission Films), online only, Andrew Nette
Dogman (Palace Films), 415/71, Jack Callil
Green Book (Entertainment One), online only, Barnaby Smith
Halston (Madman Films), 415/69, Felicity Chaplin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Entertainment One), 409/62, Patricia Maunder
Joker (DC/Warner Bros.), 416/70, Dilan Gunawardana
Judy and Punch (Madman Films), 417/66, Anwen Crawford
Late Night (Roadshow), online only, Richard Leathem
Lean on Pete (Transmission Films), 408/56, Anwen Crawford
Little Woods (Limelight Distribution), 412/62, Anwen Crawford
Loro (Palace Films), online only, Anwen Crawford
On the Basis of Sex (Entertainment One), online only, Patricia Maunder
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Sony), online only, Patrick Boyle
Pain and Glory (Palace Films), online only, Richard Leathem
Palm Beach (Production Company Five), 414/71, Jake Wilson
Rocketman (Universal), online only, Patrick Boyle
Sorry We Missed You (Icon Films), online only, Jack Callil
Stan & Ollie (Universal), online only, Richard Leathem
The Dead Don’t Die (Focus Features), online only, Aaron Nyerges
The Irishman (Netflix), 417/65, Aaron Nyerges
The Truth (Palace Films), online only, Felicity Chaplin
Us (Universal), online only, Barnaby Smith
Who You Think I Am (Palace Films), online only, Felicity Chaplin
Music
An Evening with Gun-Brit Barkmin (West Australian Symphony Orchestra), online only, Humphrey Bower
Australian World Orchestra – Conducted by Alexander Briger (Australian World Orchestra), online only, Michael Shmith
Hansel and Gretel (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Michael Shmith
Heavenly (Queensland Symphony Orchestra), online only, Gillian Wills
Ives Westlake Debussy (Australian String Quartet), online only, Sheila Fitzpatrick
Leaf and Shadow (Australian Art Orchestra), online only, Des Cowley
Nicole Car, Étienne Dupuis and Jayson Gillham (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only, Peter Rose
Season Opening Gala (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), 411/65, Elizabeth Kertesz
Sir Andrew’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Morag Fraser
Stravinsky Double Bill (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Elizabeth Kertesz
The Film Scores of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Tim Byrne
Opera
Andrea Chénier (Opera Australia), online only, Peter Rose
Anna Bolena (Opera Australia), 413/70, Peter Rose
Billy Budd (Royal Opera House), online only, Ian Dickson
Così Fan Tutte (Opera Australia), online only, Peter Rose
Farnace (Pinchgut Opera), online only, Ian Dickson
Il Viaggio a Reims (Opera Australia), online only, Elizabeth Kertesz
Karl V (Bayerische Staatsoper), online only, Peter Tregear
Les Troyens (Opéra National de Paris), online only, Christopher Menz
Macbeth (West Australian Opera), online only, William Yeoman
Madama Butterfly (State Opera South Australia), online only, Peter Rose
Moby-Dick (Chicago Opera Theatre), online only, Ian Dickson
Ned Kelly (Lost & Found Opera), online only, Humphrey Bower
Nina Stemme Returns (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra), online only, Peter Rose
Norma (Melbourne Opera), online only, Rob Holdsworth
Oscar and Lucinda (Sydney Chamber Opera), online only, Michael Halliwell
Peter Grimes (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only, Peter Rose
Rigoletto (Opera Australia), online only, Peter Rose
Salome (Opera Australia), 410/67, Michael Halliwell
The Flying Dutchman (Melbourne Opera), 409/64, Barney Zwartz
The Ghost Sonata (Opera Australia), online only, Michael Halliwell
The Great Symphony: Simone Young Returns (QSO), 413/67, Gillian Wills
The Return of Ulysses (Pinchgut Opera), online only, Michael Halliwell
The Selfish Giant (Victorian Opera), 417/67, Peter Tregear
Turandot (Opera Australia), online only, Peter Rose
West Side Story (Opera Australia), 411/66, Peter Tregear
Whiteley (Opera Australia), 413/68, Michael Halliwell
Wozzeck (Opera Australia), online only, Michael Halliwell
Theatre
Bottomless (fortyfivedownstairs), 408/57, Maxim Boon
33 Variations (Comedy Theatre), online only, Tim Byrne
A Man of Good Hope (Isango Ensemble/Young Vic), online only, Ben Brooker
A Room of One’s Own (fortyfivedownstairs), 414/69, Lisa Gorton
A View from the Bridge (Melbourne Theatre Company), 410/66, Maxim Boon
All About Eve (National Theatre Live), online only, Anwen Crawford
Anthem (Arts Centre Melbourne), 416/71, Fiona Gruber
Arbus & West (Melbourne Theatre Company), 410/62, Fiona Gruber
Australian Realness (Malthouse), 415/70, Sarah Walker
Beware of Pity (Sydney Festival), online only, Jonathan Dunk
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Sydney Theatre Company), 412/71, Tim Byrne
Così (Melbourne Theatre Company), 412/66, Maxim Boon
Death of a Salesman (Queensland Theatre), 409/65, Bronwyn Lea
Escaped Alone (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only, Tim Byrne
Gender Euphoria (Arts Centre Melbourne/Melbourne International Arts Festival), online only, Sarah Walker
Golden Shield (Melbourne Theatre Company), 414/66, Tim Byrne
Hydra (State Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre), online only, Ben Brooker
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only, Tim Byrne
Krapp’s Last Tape (Red Line Productions/Old Fitz Theatre), online only, Ian Dickson
Life of Galileo (Belvoir St Theatre), online only, Ian Dickson
Lord of the Flies (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ian Dickson
Mary Stuart (Sydney Theatre Company), 409/63, Ian Dickson
Mosquitoes (Sydney Theatre Company), 411/62, Ian Dickson
Much Ado About Nothing (Bell Shakespeare), online only, Tim Byrne
My Dearworthy Darling (Malthouse Theatre and THE RABBLE), 414/67, Tali Lavi
Oh No! Satan Stole My Pineal Gland! (Melbourne Fringe), online only, Sarah Walker
Oil (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), 417/64, Laura Hartnell
Packer & Sons (Belvoir St Theatre), online only, Ian Dickson
Picaresque (Adelaide Festival), online only, Ben Brooker
Prima Facie (Griffin Theatre Company), online only, Steve Dow
Slaughterhouse Five (MUST and Theatre Works), online only, Laura Hartnell
The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ian Dickson
The Magic Flute (Adelaide Festival), online only, Steve Dow
The Miser (Bell Shakespeare), online only, Steve Dow
The Nico Project (Melbourne International Arts Festival), online only, Dilan Gunawardana
The Torrents (Sydney Theatre Company), 413/66, Susan Lever
Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare), 415/68, Susan Lever
Two Feet (Adelaide Festival), 410/63, Lee Christofis
Ulster American (Traverse Theatre Company/Adelaide Festival), online only, Michael Morley
Wake in Fright (Malthouse Theatre), 413/65, Tim Byrne
White Pearl (Royal Court Theatre), 412/63, Alexander Douglas Thom
Visual Arts
David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948-2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney), 408/55, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester, Through Love… (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 408/62, Fiona Gruber
A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), online only, Julie Ewington
Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective (GAGPROJECTS/Adelaide Festival), 410/64, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Civilization: The Way We Live Now (National Gallery of Victoria), 416/68, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Edward Burne-Jones: Pre-Raphaelite Visionary (Tate Britain), online only, Christopher Menz
Hugh Ramsay (National Gallery of Australia), online only, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Juno Gemes: The Quiet Activist, A Survey Exhibition 1979–2019 (Macquarie University Gallery), 412/70, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines (National Gallery of Victoria), online only, Sophie Knezic
Manet and Modern Beauty (Getty Center), online only, Patrick McCaughey
Māori markings: Tā moko (National Gallery of Australia), 411/63, David Hansen
Monet: Impression Sunrise (National Gallery of Australia), 413/63, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Story Time: Australian Children’s Literature (National Library of Australia), online only, Margaret Robson Kett
Water (Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art), online only, Alison Stieven-Taylor
Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art), 409/66, Patrick McCaughey
Book Talk
ROSE, Peter, ‘Get Adam and Eve out of Paradise’, online only
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘MUP, Looking Ahead’, online only
EGAN, Robbie, ‘Long Live the Bookshop’, online only
TORNEY, Kate, ‘Australian Libraries Join Forces to Build National Digital Collection’, online only
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE, ‘ASAL Protests the Non-Appointment of the University of Sydney Chair of Australian Literature’, online only
JUCKES, Daniel, ‘The closure of UWA Publishing’, online only
WHITE, Robert, ‘Buildings or Books – What Makes a University?’, 417/2
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘Open Letter to the Chancellor of the University of Western Australia’, online only
Essays and Commentary
KELLY, Dominic, ‘“Well, there are other publishing companies”: On MUP and the resilience of non-fiction publishing’, 409/19
SIMMONDS, Alecia, ‘Forced Marriage: MAFS and reality television’s chamber of horrors’, 410/25
HALLIDAY, Daniel, ‘Why do politicians find justice so hard?’, 411/17
RUSSELL, Lynette, ‘Living in the Indigenous Space’, 413/5
MADDISON, Sarah and Dale Wandin, ‘So much at stake: Forging a treaty with authority and respect’, 413/13
TOFIGHIAN, Omid, ‘Behrouz Boochani and the politics of naming’, 413/44
ALTMAN, Dennis, ‘“Things That Never Were”: Contradictions in the 2019 Federal election’, 414/18
GRIFFITHS, Billy, ‘Scar Tissue: Searching for Retribution Camp’, 415/14
MAHOOD, Kim, ‘The Night Parrot: It’s a Whitefella Thing’, 415/24
SCOTT, Kim, ‘Australian Dreaming’, 415/36
TWOMEY, Christina, ‘Putting the terror in extraterritoriality’, 417/20
PENDER, Kieran, ‘Hot Water: The erosion of democratic accountability’, 416/8
TERRACINI, Lyndon, ‘A Lyric Future: Enabling the Sydney Opera House to fulfil its potential’, 416/22
BROERTJES, Andrew, ‘Death and Sandwiches’, 417/49
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘One’s last gumtree’, 416/46
Fellowships
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘“A Mutinous and Ferocious Grace”: Nick Cave and Trauma’s Aftermath’, 2019 ABR Patrons’ Fellow essay, 412/44
Fiction
BOEHMER, Elleke, ‘Supermarket Love’, online only
ROWE, Josephine, ‘Anything Remarkable’, online only
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Metal Language’, 412/24
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
KARSKENS, Grace, ‘Nah Doongh’s Song’, 413/31
WALKER, Sarah, ‘Floundering’, 412/20
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
FOULCHER, John, Dancing with Stephen Hawking’, 409/39
GILLETT, Ross, ‘The Mirror Hurlers’, 409/40
KISSANE, Andy, ‘Searching the Dead’, 409/43
LING, Belle, ’63 Temple Street, Mong Kok’, 409/41
TREDINNICK, Mark, ‘Raven’, 409/43
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
DECHIAN, Sonja, ‘The Point-Blank Murder’, 414/32
JAMSHED, Raaza, ‘Miracle Windows’, 414/41
NUNAN, Morgan, ‘Rubble Boy’, 414/49
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
BIN SALLEH, Rachel, 413/39
BRENNAN, Michael, online only
COONEY, Sam, 412/40
CURNOW, Meredith, 410/60
DUFFY, Madonna, 416/58
Open Page
ADELAIDE, Debra, 409/60
BRETT, Judith, 411/60
DALTON, Trent, 415/44
GARNER, Helen, 414/24
LEHMANN, Geoffrey, 408/52
PASCOE, Bruce, 413/27
SIMONS, Margaret, 417/62
WOMERSLEY, Chris, 412/24
Poet of the Month
GORTON, Lisa, 415/63
LEW, Emma, 411/53
Poetry
Poems
BANG, Mary Jo, ‘The Experience of Being Outside’, 415/26
BERNSTEIN, Charles, ‘Karen Carpenter’, 411/29
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, ‘Flight from Manus’, 409/7
FARRELL Michael, ‘Advantages of Stopovers’, 414/63
HARRIS, Robert, ‘Don’t Feel Sorry About It’, 413/57
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘The Resident’, 417/19
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘Classical Allegory’, 417/21
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘Night Flight’, 414/53
KINDT, Julia, ‘Nature’s Ancient History’, 415/33
KINSELLA, John, ‘Hailstone Villanelle’, 415/59
LANG, Kristen, ‘Painting the Horizon’, 411/17
LE, Bianca, ‘An Evergreen Canopy: The Alluring and Resilient Eucalypt’, 415/30
LEA, Bronwyn, ‘Lost World Sonnets’, 410/57
LI, Bella, ‘As Time Goes By’, 411/52
McNAUGHT, Rowan, ‘Honeywell’, 412/19
NOTLEY, Alice, ‘Jim Carroll’s Ass’, 408/49
PAPERTALK GREEN, Charmaine, ‘Walgajunmanha All Time’, 413/28
RIGBY, Karen, ‘Tangelo’, 412/23
RODRIGUEZ, Judith, ‘The Feather Boy’, 409/45
WAGAN WATSON, Samuel, ‘Songline Contraband’, 413/15
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ARCHER, Robyn, 416/60
BOWER, Humphrey, 416/60
BROOKER, Ben, 416/60
BYRNE, Tim, 416/60
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 416/60
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, 416/60
COWLEY, Des, 416/60
DICKSON, Ian, 416/60
HALLIWELL, Michael, 416/60
KNEZIC, Sophie, 416/60
LAVI, Tali, 416/60
LEATHEM, Richard, 416/60
LEVER, Susan, 416/60
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, 416/60
ROSE, Peter, 416/60
SASNAITIS, Francesca, 416/60
SHMITH, Michael, 416/60
STIEVEN-TAYLOR, Alison, 416/60
WELLS, Gillian, 416/60
WILLIAMS, Kim, 416/60
YEOMAN, Will, 416/60
ZWARTZ, Barney, 416/60
Books of the Year
ALIZADEH, Ali, 417/32
BONGIORNO, Frank, 417/32
DALTON, Trent, 417/32
DAVIS, Glyn, 417/32
DAY, Gregory, 417/32
DOOGUE, Geraldine, 417/32
DOVEY, Ceridwen, 417/32
EDWARDS, Astrid, 417/32
FLYNN, Chris, 417/32
GILES, Paul, 417/32
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 417/32
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 417/32
GORTON, Lisa, 417/32
GRIFFITHS, Billy, 417/32
HAIGH, Gideon, 417/32
HAWKE, John, 417/32
KARSKENS, Grace, 417/32
KENT, Jacqueline, 417/32
KILDEA, Paul, 417/32
KINSELLA, John, 417/32
LAKE, Marilyn, 417/32
LEA, Bronwyn, 417/32
LEY, James, 417/32
NELSON, Alice, 417/32
NIALL, Brenda, 417/32
PENDER, Kieran, 417/32
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 417/32
SILCOX, Beejay, 417/32
SIMIC, Zora, 417/32
VAN NEERVAN, Ellen, 417/32
WALKER, Brenda, 417/32
WRIGHT, Fiona, 417/32
WYNDHAM, Susan, 417/32
Environment
ADAMS, Michael, 415/31
CLODE, Danielle, 415/31
DOVEY, Ceridwen, 415/31
GAYNOR, Andrea, 415/31
GRIFFITHS, Billy, 415/31
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 415/31
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 415/31
KINSELLA, John, 415/31
MORGAN, Ruth A., 415/31
RUSSELL, Lynette, 415/31
Publisher Picks
CHRISTER, Nikki, 408/36
COONEY, Sam, 408/36
CURNOW, Meredith, 408/36
GRUNDY, Alice, 408/36
HEYWARD, Michael, 408/36
HOLLIER, Nathan, 408/36
IMLAH, Mathilda, 408/36
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 408/36
MILNE, Catherine, 408/36
MUSGRAVE, David, 408/36
SCOTT, Barry, 408/36
TUFFIELD, Aviva, 408/36
WHITE, Terri-ann, 408/36
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Index for 2018: Nos 398–407 & online features
ABR Index 2018
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2018.
2018 Australian Book Review Index
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ABBS, Carolyn, The Tiny Museums, UWAP Poetry, 401/40, Joan Fleming
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, The Lebs, Hachette, 399/34, Jay Daniel Thompson
AIKEN, Michael, Satan Repentant, UWA Publishing, 405/57, David Dick
AITKEN, Adam, Archipelago, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ALBISTON, Jordie, Warlines, Hybrid, 406/47, David McCooey
ALCOFF, Linda Martin, Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation, Polity, 402/9, Alecia Simmonds
ALLEN, Elizabeth, Present, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ARNOTT, Robbie, Flames, Text Publishing, 401/37, Amy Baillieu
ATHERTON, Michael, A Coveted Possession: The rise and fall of the piano in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 405/69, Gillian Wills
ATKINS, Clare, Between Us, Black Inc., 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
ATKINS, Peter, Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature, Oxford University Press, 403/62, Robyn Williams
ATKINSON, Meera, Traumata, UQP, 403/54, Ceridwen Spark
ATTENBOROUGH, David, Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest expeditions, Two Roads, 398/24, Danielle Clode
AVERILL, Roger, Relatively Famous, Transit Lounge, 401/36, Shannon Burns
BALL, Jesse, Census, Text Publishing, 402/21, Beejay Silcox
BANNOS, Pamela, Vivian Maier: A photographer’s life and afterlife, University of Chicago Press, 399/64, Helen Ennis
BANVILLE, John, Mrs Osmond, Viking, 398/25, Brenda Niall
BARNES, John, La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor, Halstea Press, 398/34, John Arnold
BECK, Luke, Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution: Origins and future, Routledge, 403/66, David Rolph
BELL, Stephen and Michael Keating, Fair Share: Competing claims and Australia’s economic future, Melbourne University Press, 402/14, Richard Walsh
BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2017, Black Inc., 398/28, Rachel Robertson
BENNETTS, Alexander (ed.), The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two, Brow Books, 398/57, Dan Dixon
BERESFORD, Bruce, The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts, Text Publishing, 398/65, Desley Deacon
BERESFORD, Quentin, Adani and the War Over Coal, NewSouth, 405/18, Susan Reid
BERRY, Vanessa, Mirror Sydney, Giramondo, 398/50, Lucas Thompson
BETTS, A.J., Hive, Pan Macmillan, 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
BEVERIDGE, Judith, Sun Music: New and selected poems, Giramondo, 404/43, Judith Bishop
BISHOP, Judith, Interval, UQP, 400/65, Jill Jones
BISHOP, Stephanie, Man Out of Time, Hachette, 404/35, Johanna Leggatt
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, translated by Omid Tofighian, No Friend but the Mountains, Picador, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
BORDWELL, David, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling, University of Chicago Press, 402/37, Desley Deacon
BRADFORD, David, Tell Me I’m Okay: A doctor’s story, Monash University Publishing, 403/61, Robert Reynolds
BRAYSHAW, Ian, Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror, Hardie Grant Books, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
BRENNER, Michael, In Search of Israel: The history of an idea, Princeton University Press, 403/55, Mark Baker
BROPHY, Kevin, Look at the Lake, Puncher & Wattmann, 404/45, Joan Fleming
BROWN, Craig, Ma’am Darling: Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret, Fourth Estate, 401/26, David Rolph
BROWN, Gordon, My Life, Our Times, Vintage, 406/49, Simon Tormey
BROWN, Pam, Click Here For What We Do, Vagabond Press, 403/69, Tim Wright
BROWN, Tina, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 398/23, Susan Wyndham
BUTLER, Rex and Sheridan Palmer (eds), Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith, Monash University Publishing, 405/53, Brian Matthews
CALLOWAY, Colin G., The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation, Oxford University Press, 407/63, Josh Specht
CAMPBELL, Marion May, The Man on the Mantelpiece: A memoir, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
CARR, Bob, Run For Your Life, Melbourne University Press, 404/20, Stephen Mills
CHAN, Gabrielle, Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up, Vintage, 406/12, Shaun Crowe
CHAPLIN, Felicity, La Parisienne in Cinema: Between art and life, Manchester University Press, 402/33, Philippa Hawker
CHAUDHURI, Amit, The Origins of Dislike, Oxford University Press, 407/55, Robert Dessaix
CHRISTOPHER, Emma, Freedom in White and Black: A lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy, University of Wisconsin Press, online only, Trevor Burnard
COCHRANE, Peter, Best We Forget: The war for white Australia, 1914-18, Text Publishing, 403/11, Marilyn Lake
COCHRANE, Peter, The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning, Viking, 406/53, David Whish-Wilson
COHEN, Bernard, When I Saw the Animal, UQP, 406/39, Anthony Lynch
COHEN, David, The Hunter and Other Stories of Men, Transit Lounge, 405/21, Sophie Frazer
COHEN, Marcelo, translated by Chris Andrews, Melodrome, Giramondo, 406/52, Alice Whitmore
COHEN, Mitchell, The Politics of Opera: A history from Monteverdi to Mozart, Princeton University Press, 398/66, Michael Halliwell
COLE, Catherine, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark, UWA Publishing, 398/52, Rachael Mead
COLLINS, Paul, Absolute Power: How the Pope became the most influential man in the world, PublicAffairs, 404/41, Gerard Windsor
COWEN, Lady Anna, My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982, Miegunyah Press, online only, Susan Magarey
CRESPINO, Joseph, Atticus Finch: The biography, Basic Books, 404/10, Clare Corbould
CREWS, Frederick, Freud: The making of an illusion, Profile Books, 399/15, Nick Haslam
CRYLE, Peter and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A critical genealogy, University of Chicago Press, 401/46, James Bennett
CUSK, Rachel, Kudos, Faber, 403/28, Kirsten Tranter
DALLEK, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A political life, Allen Lane, 401/23, Andrew Broertjes
DAVIS, Richard, Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender, Wakefield Press, 399/68, Ian Dickson
DAVISON, Graeme (ed.), Hugh Stretton: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 407/25, Tom Griffiths
DAY, Greogry, A Sand Archive, Picador, 401/34, Gillian Dooley
DAY, Sarah, Towards Light & Other Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 406/47, David McCooey
DEKKERS, Midas, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, The Story of Shit, Text Publishing, 402/53, Lauren Fuge
DER-WEI WANG, David (ed.), A New Literary History of Modern China, Harvard, 398/15, Nicholas Jose
DIMÓPULOS, Mariana, translated by Alice Whitmore, All My Goodbyes, Giramondo, 398/29, Lilit Thwaites
DISHER, Gary, Her, Hachette, 398/51, Anna MacDonald
DIXON, Robert (ed.), Richard Flanagan: New critical essays, Sydney University Press, 403/42, Susan Lever
DOBLIN, Alfred, translated by Michael Hofmann, Berlin Alexanderplatz, New York Review Books Classics, 402/25, Joachim Redner
DOLLIMORE, Jonathan, Desire: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 401/27, Dion Kagan
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Crime and Punishment, Oxford University Press, 401/38, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
DOVEY, Ceridwen, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Hamish Hamilton, 400/55, Ashley Hay
DOVEY, Ceridwen, Writers on writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee, Black Inc., 406/27, Felicity Plunkett
DOVEY, Kim, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones (eds), Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985 - , Melbourne University Press, 405/39, Sara Savage
DREWE, Robert, The True Colour of the Sea, Hamish Hamilton, 404/33, Anthony Lynch
DUBERMAN, Martin, Has the Gay Movement Failed?, University of California Press, 404/46, Dennis Altman
DWYER, Philip, Napoleon: Passion, death and resurrection 1815-1840, 405/49, Bloomsbury, Peter McPhee
EDWARDS, John, John Curtin’s War: Volume I, Viking, 400/30, James Walter
EMERSON, Craig, The Boy from Brisbane, Scribe, 400/60, Lyndon Megarrity
ENGEL, Matthew, That’s the Way It Crumbles: The American conquest of English, Profile Books, 398/58, Bruce Moore
ETTLER, Justine, Bohemia Beach, Transit Lounge, 402/20, Fiona Wright
EVANS, Harold, Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why writing well matters, Abacus, 403/40, Richard Walsh
FARRELL, John A., Richard Nixon: The life, Scribe, 398/38, Andrew Broertjes
FERGUSON, Robert, Scandinavians: In search of the soul of the north, Overlook Press, 404/31, Kári Gíslason
FERNANDES, Clinton, Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy, Monash University Publishing, 405/21, David Brophy
FEWSTER, Alan, Three Duties and Talleyrand’s Dictum: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/27, Geoffrey Blainey
FINK, Hannah, Bronwyn Oliver: Strange things, Piper Press, 401/51, Brigitta Olubas
FLANNERY, Tim, Europe: A natural history, Text Publishing, 406/13, David Garrioch
FORD, Clementine, Boys Will Be Boys, Allen & Unwin, 406/17, Astrid Edward
FRAME, Tom and Albert Palazzo, Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian Army, UNSW Press, 399/57, Deborah Zion
FRANASZEK, Andrzej, Miłosz: A biography, Belknap Press, 398/41, Peter Goldsworthy
FRANCE, David, How to Survive a Plague: The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS, Picador, 398/51, Robert Reynolds
FRENKEL, Françoise, translated by Stephanie Smee, No Place to Lay One’s Head, Vintage, online only, Avril Alba
FRY, Stephen, Mythos, Michael Joseph, 400/44, Julia Kindt
GANDOLFO, Enza, The Bridge, Scribe, 402/24, Carol Middleton
GAPPS, Stephen, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817, NewSouth, 403/13, Alan Atkinson
GATLAND-VENESS, Meg, I Had Such Friends, Pantera Press, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
GAYFORD, Martin, Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters, Thames & Hudson, 405/67, Patrick McCaughey
GAYNOUR, Andrea, The Allure of Fungi, CSIRO Publishing, 405/31, Andrea Gaynor
GENONI, Paul and Tanya Dalziell, Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964, Monash University Publishing, 406/35, Brian Matthews
GERGIS, Joelle, Sunburnt Country: The history and future of climate change in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 405/34, Lauren Rickards
GINNA, Peter (ed.), What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing, University of Chicago Press, 400/63, Richard Walsh
GIOVANNONI, Moreno, The Fireflies of Autumn: And other tales of San Ginese, Black Inc., 403/32, Michael Brennan
GLASKIN, Katie, Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea, UWA Publishing, 401/18, Richard Martin
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2017, Black Inc., 399/24, Lucas Thompson
GORDON, Lyndall, Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world, Virago, 401/15, Dorothy Driver
GOW, Ian D., and Stuart Kells, The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly, La Trobe University Press/Black Inc., 402/13, Remy Davison
GRAEBER, David, Bullshit Jobs: A theory, Allen Lane, 403/14, Gideon Haigh
GREEN, Jonathan, Meanjin A-Z: Fine fiction 1980 to now, Melbourne University Press, 403/66, Francesca Sasnaitis
GRIFFITHS, Billy, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia, Black Inc, 400/38, Kim Mahood
HAGAN, Joe, Sticky Fingers: The life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine, Viking, 400/57, Anwen Crawford
HAIGH, Gideon, A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean, Hamish Hamilton, 400/42, Anna MacDonald
HAIGH, Gideon, Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way, Slattery Media Group, 406/44, Kieran Pender
HALDANE, Robert, The People’s Force: A history of Victoria Police, Melbourne University Press, 401/50, John Arnold
HALL, Rodney, A Stolen Season, Picador, 400/52, Brian Matthews
HALLIWELL, Michael, National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths reconsidered, Routledge, 407/74, Peter Tregear
HAM, Rosalie, The Year of the Farmer, Pan Macmillan, 405/47, Brenda Walker
HAMILTON, Clive, Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 400/11, David Brophy
HARDING, Luke, Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House, Guardian Books/Faber, 399/14, Varun Ghosh
HARRISON, Jennifer, Anywhy, Black Pepper, 406/47, David McCooey
HEMPENSTALL, Peter, Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology, University of Wisconsin Press, 400/40, Simon Caterson
HENRY-JONES, Eliza, P is for Pearl, Angus & Robertson, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
HENSHER, Philip, The Friendly Ones, Fourth Estate, 402/19, Robert Dessaix
HERSH, Seymour, Reporter: A memoir, Allen Lane, 404/17, Gideon Haigh
HESSLER, Stefanie (ed.), MIT Press, 405/23, Michael Adams
HILL, Barry, Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980-2017, Monash University Publishing, 401/12, Patrick McCaughey
HINTON, Les, The Bootle Boy: An untidy life in news, Les Hinton, 404/23, Michael Shmith
HOFMANN, Michael, One Lark, One Horse, Faber, 407/52, Philip Mead
HOMER, translated by Emily Wilson, The Odyssey, Wiley, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOMER, translated by Peter Green, The Iliad: A new translation, University of California Press, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOOPER, Chloe, The Arsonist, Hamish Hamilton, 405/22, Fiona Gruber
HYNES, Samuel, On War and Writing, University of Chicago Press, 405/55, Robin Gerster
INGLIS, Ken, Seumas Spark, and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan, Dunera Lives: Volume 1: A visual history, Monash University Publishing, 404/24, Astrid Edwards
ISAAC, Geoff, Featherston, Thames & Hudson, 398/67, Christopher Menz
JAMES, Clive, The River in the Sky, Picador, 406/48, Geoff Page
JENKINS, Tiffany, Keeping Their Marbles: How the treasures of the past ended up in museums … and why they should stay there, Oxford University Press, 401/52, Christopher Allen
JENNER, Micheline, The Secret Life of Whales: A marine biologist’s revelations, NewSouth, 398/56, Rachael Mead
JOHNSON, Katherine, Matryoshka, Ventura Press, 406/40, Alice Nelson
JONES, Benjamin T., This Time: Australia’s republican past and future, Redback, 401/21, Billy Griffiths
JONES, Gail, The Death of Noah Glass, Text Publishing, 400/53, Kerryn Goldsworthy
JONES, Jill, Brink, Five Islands Press, 398/44, Toby Fitch
JONES, Jonah, An Introduction to Pontormo, Mauro Pagliai Editore, 404/63, Vivien Gaston
JONES, S.A., The Fortress, Echo Publishing, 401/44, Anna MacDonald
JORDAN, Deborah, Loving Words: Love letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer 1909-1914, Brandl & Schlesinger, 404/12, Brenda Niall
JORDAN, Toni, The Fragments, Text Publishing, 407/38, Suzanne Falkiner
JOSEV, Tanya, The Campaign Against the Courts: A history of the judicial activism debate, Federation Press, 398/55, John Eldridge
JUKES, Helen, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A year of keeping bees, Scribner, 405/32, Keegan O’Connor
KANE, Paul, A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina, White Crane, 407/48, David McCooey
KELLS, Stuart, Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature, Text Publishing, 405/68, David McInnis
KENNEDY, Sarah, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 404/14, James Ley
KILDEA, Paul, Chopin’s Piano: A journey through Romanticism, Allen Lane, 404/60, John Allison
KINDT, Julia, Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 399/60, Greta Hawes
KING, Jonathan, Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle, Scribe, 399/56, Martin Crotty
KINGSOLVER, Barbara, Unsheltered, Faber, 407/42, Nicole Abadee
KINLEY, David, Necessary Evil: How to fix finance by saving human rights, Oxford University Press, 404/27, Giovanni Di Lieto
KINSELLA, John and Paul Kane, Renga: 100 poems, GloriaSMH Press, 399/29, David McCooey
KLEINHENZ, Elizabeth, Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, Knopf, 407/12, Zora Simic
KRYNICKI, Ryszard, translated by Alissa Valles, Our Life Grows, NYRB Poets, 401/43, Benjamin Ivry
LAKE, Jessica, The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy, Yale, 401/49, Marama Whyte
LAKE, Meredith, The Bible in Australia: A cultural history, NewSouth, 401/8, Alan Atkinson
LATOUR, Bruno, Down to Earth: Politics in the new climate regime, Wiley, 405/20, Tim Flannery
LEIGH, Andrew, Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world, La Trobe University Press, 404/26, Michael Sexton
LEWIS, Rhodri, Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness, Princeton University Press, 399/51, David McInnis
LIBERMAN, Serge, The Storyteller: Selected stories, Serge Liberman, online only, Tali Lavi
LILLEY, Rozanna, Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life, UWA Publishing, 402/55, Susan Sheridan
LINDSEY, Tim and Dave McRae (eds), Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian century, Hart Publishing, 404/29, David Fettling
LOZANO, Rosina, An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States, University of California Press, 406/43, Timothy Verhoeven
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Too Much Lip, UQP, 405/46, Jane Sullivan
LUKINS, Robert, The Everlasting Sunday, UQP, 400/63, Anna MacDonald
MACINTYRE, Stuart, André Brett, and Gwilym Croucher, No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified national system of higher education, Melbourne University Press, 398/54, Paul Giles
MACLEAN, Nancy, Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, Scribe, 398/36, Max Holleran
MACRON, Emmanuel, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott, Revolution, Scribe, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Selected Poems 1967-2018, Quemar Press, 403/67, Gig Ryan
MALEKI, Mohammad Ali, translated by Mansour Shoushtari, Truth in the Cage, Rochford Street Press, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
MALOUF, David, An Open Book, UQP, 407/47, Judith Bishop
MANNE, Robert, On Borrowed Time, Black Inc., 401/14, Shaun Crowe
MARR, David, My Country, Black Inc., 407/9, Glyn Davis
MASTERS, Chris, No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at war in Afghanistan, Allen & Unwin, 398/13, Kevin Foster
MAUNSELL, Jerome Boyd, Portraits from Life: Modernist novelists and autobiography, OUP, online only, Richard Freadman
MAUPIN, Armistead, Logical Family: A memoir, Doubleday, 399/54, Dennis Altman
MAY, Elaine Tyler, Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, Basic Books, 401/25, Max Holleran
McCANN, Joy, Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean, NewSouth, 405/35, Paul Humphries
McFARLANE, Brian, Making a Meal of it: Writing about film, Monash University Publishing, 402/45, Varun Ghosh
McGUINESS, Phillipa, The Year Everything Changed: 2001, Vintage, 402/49, Paul Morgan
McKNIGHT, David, Populism Now! The case for progressive populism, NewSouth, 403/57, Matteo Bonotti
McMAHON, Elizabeth and Brigitta Olubas, Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays, Sydney University Press, 399/53, Susan Sheridan
McMULLAN, Gordon et al., Antipodal Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, 404/22, David McInnis
McMULLIN, Ross, Pompey Elliott at War: In his own words, Scribe, 403/60, Geoffrey Blainey
MEAD, Philip, Zanzibar Light, Vagabond Press, 402/56, Judith Bishop
MENDILOW, Jonathan and Eric Phélippeau (eds), Handbook of Political Party Funding, Edward Elgar, online only, Stephen Mills
MEWBURN, Inger, How to be an Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all, NewSouth, 399/24, Kirk Graham
MEYRICK, Julian, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett, What Matters? Talking value in Australian culture, Monash University Publishing, 406/25, Gabrielle Coslovich
MICHAEL, Rose, The Art of Navigation, UWA Publishing, 398/38, Lisa Bennett
MIDALIA, Susan, The Art of Persuasion, Fremantle Press, 404/36, Sophie Frazer
MIDDLETON, Kate, Passage, Giramondo, 398/44, Toby Fitch
MILLS, Jennifer, Dyschronia, Picador, 399/38, James Bradley
MITCHELL, Stephen (translator), Beowulf, Yale, 399/27, Bruce Moore
MOLE, Tom, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history, Princeton University Press, 401/47, Michael Falk
MOORE, Lorrie, See What Can Be Done: Essays, criticisms, and commentary, Faber, 403/64, Lucas Thompson
MOORE, Peter, Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world, Vintage, 405/50, Alan Atkinson
MOORHEAD, Joanna, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, Virago Press, online only, Gabriel García Ochoa
MOORHOUSE, Frank, The Drover’s Wife, Knopf, 399/52, Paul Genoni
MORGAN, Margaret, The Second Cure, Vintage, 405/26, Jack Rowland
MORRIS, Heather, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Echo, 399/35, Tali Lavi
MSIMANG, Sisonke, Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home, Text Publishing, 403/53, Dorothy Driver
MURAKAMI, Haruki, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Killing Commendatore, 405/44, Harvill Secker, Cassandra Atherton
MURRAY, Les, Collected Poems, Black Inc., 407/44, Peter Goldsworthy
MURRAY, Ruby J., The Biographer’s Lover, Black Inc.,404/34, Suzanne Falkiner
NAMJOSHI, Suniti, Aesop the Fox, Spinifex, 404/36, Susan Varga
NELSON, Alice, The Children’s House, Vintage, 405/48, Sarah Holland-Batt
NELSON, Camilla and Rachel Robertson, Dangerous Idea About Mothers, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Felicity Plunkett
NIALL, Brenda, Josephine Dunin, and Frances O’Neill, Newman College: A history 1918–2018, Newman College, online only, Barney Zwartz
NIVEN, Bill, Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer’s hidden passion, Yale, 402/31, Peter Goldsworthy
O’DONNELL, Lawrence, Playing with Fire: The 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Penguin, 399/13, Barbara Keys
O’GRADY, Emily, The Yellow House, Allen & Unwin, 405/58, Jay Daniel Thompson
O’HANLON, Seamus, City Life: The new urban Australia, Seamus O’Hanlon, 405/38, Frank Bongiorno
O’NEILL, Ryan, The Drover’s Wives: 99 reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s Australian classic, Brio, 403/30, Jen Webb
OLSSON, Kristina, Shell, Scribner, 406/38, Susan Wyndham
ONDAATJE, Michael, Warlight, Jonathan Cape, 404/32, Beejay Silcox
ORR, Stephen, Incredible Floridas, Wakefield Press, 400/56, Gregory Day
PAGE, Geoff, Hard Horizons, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PAQUET, Philippe, translated by Julie Rose, Simon Leys: Navigator between worlds, La Trobe University Press, 400/22, Ian Donaldson
PARAMADITHA, Intan, translated by Stephen J. Epstein, Apple and Knife, Brow Books, 401/39, Lisa Bennett
PARKS, Tim, Out of My Head: On the trail of consciousness, Harvill Secker, 407/60, Nick Haslam
PARRISH, Tommi, The Lie and How We Told It, Fantagraphics, online only, Ronnie Scott
PATRIC, A.S., The Butcherbird Stories, Transit Lounge, 407/37, Susan Sheridan
PERCIVAL WOOD, Sally, Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia, Scribe, 398/53, Blanche Clark
PERRY, Gina, The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment, Scribe, 402/52, Nick Haslam
PERSIAN, Jayne, Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians, NewSouth, 398/46, Francesca Sasnaitis
PFEFFER, Anshel, Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Basic Books, 406/41, Louise Adler
PHILIPPS, Roland, A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald Maclean, Bodley Head, 405/10, Sheila Fitzpatrick
PICKRELL, John (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2018, NewSouth, 407/57, Paul Humphries
PIGGIN, Stuart, and Robert D. Linder, The Fountains of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian history 1740-1914, Monash University Publishing, 405/52, Paul Collins
PINCKNEY, Darryl (ed.), The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, NYRB, 400/34, Patrick McCaughey
PINKER, Steven, Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress, Allen Lane, 402/50, Benjamin Madden
PLANT, Margaret, Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century, Thames and Hudson, 402/16, Paul Giles
PLOWRIGHT, Adam, The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk, Icon Books, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
POIRIER, Agnes, Left Bank: Art, passion and the rebirth of Paris 1940-1950, Bloomsbury, 407/56, Gemma Betros
PRETTY, Ron, The Left Hand Mirror, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PRIOR, James, America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia-American alliance, 1940-1942, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/37, Remy Davison
RASMUSSEN, Carolyn, Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975-2015, Miegunyah, 407/61, Kate Murphy
RITTER, David, The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy, UWA Publishing, 405/18, Susan Reid
ROBINSON, Marilynne, What Are We Doing Here?: Essays, Virago, 401/10, Morag Fraser
ROWSE, Tim, Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901, UNSW Press, 399/18, Philip Jones
RUDD, Kevin, Not for the Faint-Hearted: A personal reflection on life, politics and purpose, Macmillan, 400/20, Neal Blewett
RYAN, Christian, Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar, riverrun, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
RYAN, Jackie, We’ll Show the World: Expo 88, UQP, 404/47, Lyndon Megarrity
SALES, Leigh, Any Ordinary Day, Hamish Hamilton, 405/11, Gail Bell
SAMPSON, Fiona, In Search of Mary Shelley: The girl who wrote Frankenstein, Profile Books, 403/49, Geordie Williamson
SASAKI, Fred and Don Share, Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry magazine, University of Chicago Press, 401/42, David McCooey
SCOTT, Andrew C., Burning Planet: The story of fire through time, Andrew C. Scott, 407/58, Billy Griffiths
SCOTT, James C., Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states, Yale, 399/55, Kate Griffiths
SENECA, edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die: An ancient guide to the end of life, Princeton University Press, 404/39, Marguerite Johnson
SERONG, Jock, Preservation, Text Publishing, 407/39, James Bradley
SHERBORNE, Craig, Off the Record, Text Publishing, 399/37, Susan Lever
SHINE, Rick, Cane Toad Wars, University of California Press, 405/26, Libby Robbin
SHIPMAN, Tim, Fall Out: A year of political mayhem, William Collins, 401/22, Ross McKibbin
SHRIVER, Lionel, Property, The Borough Press, 401/35, Chris Flynn
SINGER, Peter (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on objectivity, OUP, 398/40, Janna Thompson
SKOVRON, Alex, The Man Who Took to his Bed, Puncher & Wattmann, 399/39, Jill Jones
SLATTERY, Luke, Mrs M: An imagined history, Fourth Estate, 399/36, Gillian Dooley
SLEZAK, Michael (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2017, NewSouth, 399/23, Rachel Mead
SMITH, Yvonne, David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings, Cambria Press, 398/16, David McCooey
SMITH, Zadie, Feel Free: Essays, Hamish Hamilton, 400/33, Sarah Holland-Batt
SOLNIT, Rebecca, The Mother of All Questions: Further feminisms, Granta Books, 400/36, Johanna Leggatt
SORENSEN, Tracy, The Lucky Galah, Picador, 401/39, Josephine Taylor
SORKIN, Michael, What Goes Up: The right and wrongs to the city, Verso, 403/65, Sara Savage
SPURLING, Hilary, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time, Hamish Hamilton, 398/35, Brian McFarlane
ST AUBYN, Edward, Dunbar, Hogarth Shakespeare, 398/26, Lisa Gorton
STEED, Laurie, You Belong Here, Margaret River Press, 401/39, Gretchen Shirm
STEINBERG, Peter K. and Karen V. Kukil (eds), The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956, Faber, 400/31, Felicity Plunkett
STEVENS, Norma and Steven M.L. Aronson, Avedon: Something personal, William Heinemann, 399/66, Kevin Rabelais
STRANGIO, Paul, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, The Pivot of Power: Australian prime ministers and political leadership 1949 –2016, Miegunyah, 398/12, Frank Bongiorno
SUMMERS, Anne, Unfettered and Alive: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 407/12, Zora Simic
SUNY, Ronald Grigor, Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution, Verso, 400/28, Sheila Fitzpatrick
TAFT, Margaret and Andrew Markus, A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish in Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 406/45, Tali Lavi
TAUBMAN, William, Gorbachev: His life and times, Simon & Schuster, 400/25, Barbara Keys
TAYLOR, Daniel, The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war, La Trobe University Press, 406/22, Daniel Flitton
THOMAS, Richard F., Why Dylan Matters, William Collins, 401/58, James Ley
THOMSON, David, Warner Bros: The making of an American movie studio, Yale, 402/41, Jake Wilson
TINGLE, Laura, Follow the Leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71), Black Inc., 406/8, Paul Strangio
TOBIN, Vera, Elements of Surprise: Our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot, Harvard University Press, 403/63, Andrea Goldsmith
TOIBIN, Colm, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Picador, 406/28, Simon Caterson
TOMALIN, Claire, A Life of My Own, Viking, 398/18, Brenda Niall
TOMSIC, Mary, Beyond the Silver Screen: A history of women, film-making and film culture in Australia 1920-1990, Melbourne University Publishing, 402/44, Suzy Freeman-Greene
TOOZE, Adam, Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changes the world, Allen Lane, 407/27, Rémy Davison
TREMAIN, Rose, Rosie: Scenes from a vanished life, Chatto & Windus, 403/50, Brenda Niall
TREVOR, William, Last Stories, Viking, 402/22, Geordie Williamson
TRIGGS, Gillian, Speaking Up, Melbourne University Press, 406/19, Jane Cadzow
TSIOLKAS, Christos, On Patrick White: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 403/41, Barnaby Smith
TUFFIELD, Aviva (ed.), Best Summer Stories, Black Inc., 407/41, Anthony Lynch
TUNLEY, David, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji, Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce, Lyrebird Press, 401/59, Paul Watt
TWOMEY, Anne, The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems, Cambridge University Press, 404/40, Stephen Murray
TWOMEY, Christina, The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia, NewSouth, 403/58, Carolyn Holbrook
TWYFORD-MOORE, Sam, The Rapids: Ways of looking at mania, NewSouth, 403/52, Shannon Burns
UHLMANN, Anthony, Saint Antony in His Desert, UWA Publishing, 403/33, Suzie Gibson
VAN VELZEN, Marianne, Missing in Action: Australia’s World War I grave services, an astonishing story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing, Allen & Unwin, online only, Simon Caterson
VATIKIOTIS, Michael, Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 399/22, David Fettling
VEYNE, Paul, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Palmyra: An irreplaceable pleasure, University of Chicago Press, 399/58, Christopher Allen
VINCENT, Eve, Against Native Title: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 401/18, Richard Martin
WAKELING, Adam, Stern Justice: The forgotten story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes trials, Viking, 407/65, Michael Sexton
WALKER, Shaun, The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past, OUP, 400/61, Shaun Walker
WALSH, Adrian, The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath, Oxford University Press, 404/38, Adrian Walsh
WALSH, Stephen, Debussy: A painter in sound, Faber, 406/65, Paul Kildea
WATERS, Alice, Coming to my Senses: The making of a counterculture cook, Hardie Grant Books, 398/21, Mimi Biggadike
WESTAD, Odd Arne, The Cold War: A world history, Allen Lane, 398/10, Barbara Keys
WHEATLEY, Nadia, Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir, Text Publishing, 404/18, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WHISH-WILSON, David, The Coves, Fremantle Press, 405/59, Gillian Dooley
WHITE, Hugh, Without America: Australia in the new Asia (Quarterly Essay 68), Black Inc., 399/19, David Brophy
WILD, Kate, Waiting for Elijah, Scribe, 402/54, Johanna Leggatt
WILLESEE, Mike, Memoirs, Macmillan, 398/20, Richard Walsh
WILLIAMS, Robyn, Turmoil: Letters from the brink, NewSouth, 405/13, Danielle Clode
WILSON, Katherine, Tinkering: Australians reinvent DIY culture, Monash University Publishing, 398/66, Alex Tighe
WINTON, Tim, The Shepherd’s Hut, Hamish Hamilton, 399/34, Brenda Niall
WOLFF, Michael, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Hachette, 399/11, Gideon Haigh
WOOD, James, Upstate, Jonathan Cape, 406/37, Brenda Niall
WOODWARD, Bob, Fear: Trump in the White House, Simon & Schuster, 406/10, Varun Ghosh
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, Beautiful Revolutionary, Scribe, 405/43, Anna MacDonald
WRIGHT, Alexis, Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth, Giramondo, 398/8, Michael Winkler
WRIGHT, Clare, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, Text Publishing, 406/16, Maggie MacKellar
WRIGHT, Fiona, Domestic Interior, Giramondo, 401/40, Joan Fleming
WRIGHT, Fiona, The World was Whole, Giramondo, 405/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
ZIELONKA, Wellings, Counter-revolution: Liberal Europe in retreat, Oxford University Press, 405/15, Ben Wellings
ZIZEK, Slavoj, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza, Reading Marx, Polity Press, 404/42, Ali Alizadeh
ZUSAK, Markus, Bridge of Clay, Picador, 405/42, Nicole Abadee
2018 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here
Arts commentary
GRANT, Sally, ‘The Brodie Set: Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, 402/38
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, ‘On Black Panther’, 402/43
McNAMARA, James, ‘The Drama of it: Television Comedy’s New Aesthetic’, 402/34
TREAGER, Peter, ‘Strange Times for Artistic Practice’, 404/50
Dance
CASEY, Maryrose, Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre), 405/66
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Giselle (Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, La Bayadère (Queensland Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Le Dernier Appel (Marrugeku Dance Theatre), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Milky Way – Ballet at the Quarry (West Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Murphy (The Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Spartacus (The Australian Ballet), 406/67
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, The Piano: The Ballet (Royal New Zealand Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Xenos (Adelaide Festival), online only
Film
ALTMAN, Dennis, Boy Erased (Universal Pictures), 407/70
COWLEY, Des, Cold War (Palace Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BlacKkKlansman (Universal Pictures), 404/51
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Madman Entertainment), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Disobedience (Roadshow Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lady Bird (Universal Pictures and A24), 399/63
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lean on Pete (Transmission Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Loveless (Palace Films), 402/61
CRAWFORD, Anwen, The Death of Stalin (Madman Entertainment), 401/60
CRAWFORD, Anwen, You Were Never Really Here (Umbrella Entertainment), 405/65
GRANT, Sally, McQueen (Bleecker Street), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Disaster Artist, (Roadshow Films), 398/64
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Brothers’ Nest (Label Distribution), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, The Second, online only
KAGAN, Dion, Happy Hour (Transmission Films), online only
LAVI, Tali, Foxtrot (Sharmill Films), 403/72
McFARLANE, Brian, Breath (Roadshow Films), 402/60
McFARLANE, Brian, Darkest Hour (Universal Pictures), online only
McFARLANE, Brian, Peterloo (British Film Festival), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Suspiria (Transmission Films), online only
SASNAITIS, Francesca, The Insult (Palace Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Transmission Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Gaugin: Voyage de Tahiti (Studio Canal), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Human Flow (Roadshow Entertainment), 400/68
SMITH, Barnaby, Mary Shelley, online only
SMITH, Barnaby, The Wife (Icon Film Distribution), 404/59
SMITH, Barnaby, Wildlife (Roadshow Films), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, A Fantastic Woman (Sony Pictures), 400/69
WINDSOR, Harry, Sweet Country (Transmission Films), 399/62
WINDSOR, Harry, The Post (Entertainment One), online only
Music
APPLEBY, Rosalind, Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo (Perth Festival), online only
COWLES, Des, 2018 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, online only
COWLEY, Des, Kites of Tianjin (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, The Calling (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, online only
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, online only
FRASER, Morag, L’Enfance du Christ (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
FRASER, Morag, The Dream of Gerontius (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Die Walküre, Act One (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Tristan und Isolde (West Australian Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Anne-Sophie Mutter in concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, 'Beethoven’s Nine, Ode to Joy' (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Brahms Revelation (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Daniel Barenboim conducting Staatskapelle Berlin (Sydney Opera House), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, David Robertson and Emanuel Ax’s Mozart concert series (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Dramatic Mozart, Seductive Mozart, and Magnificent Mozart (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 399/70
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler Six (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 404/62
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
Opera
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth Festival), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Athalia (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Don Quichotte (Opera Australia), 401/61
HALLIWELL, Michael, La Traviata (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Metamorphosis (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Parsifal and The Flying Dutchman (Bavarian State Opera), online only
KERTESZ, Elizabeth, Otello (Melbourne Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Cendrillon and Lucia di Lammermoor and Tosca (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Così fan tutte (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Lucia di Lammermoor and Aida (Opera Australia), online only
SHMITH, Michael, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Opera Australia), 407/73
SHMITH, Michael, Stuart Skelton (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only
SHMITH, Michael, William Tell (Victorian Opera), 403/74
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Riccardo Muti conducts the Australian World Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, The Nose (Opera Australia), online only
TREGEAR, Peter, Evita (Opera Australia), 405/71
WILLS, Gillian, Peter Grimes (Brisbane Festival), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Der Rosenkavalier (Melbourne Opera), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Tristan and Isolde (Melbourne Opera), online only
Theatre
BETROS, Gemma, Au revoir la-haut (See You Up There), 401/56
BOON, Maxim, Bottomless (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BROOKER, Ben, A Doll's House, Part 2 (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, After Dinner (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 401/63
BROOKER, Ben, Assassins (Black Swan State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Brothers Wreck (written and directed by Jada Alberts), 403/73
BROOKER, Ben, Creditors (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Gloria (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Kings of War (Adelaide Festival), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Sense and Sensibility (State Theatre Company of South Australia), online only
BROOKER, Ben, That Eye, The Sky (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Thyestes (The Hayloft Project), 400/73
BYRNE, Tim, Scaramouche Jones (Wander Productions), 404/56
BYRNE, Tim, Strangers in Between (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company), 407/71
BYRNE, Tim, Watt (performed at the Playhouse, Arts Centre), 406/56
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Richard Wagner Festival Theatre), 404/55
CRAVEN, Peter, Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare Company), 404/58
DAVIDSON, Jim, Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask, 403/75
DICKSON, Ian, A Cheery Soul (written by Patrick White and directed by Kip Williams), 406/68
DICKSON, Ian, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, An Enemy of the People (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Degenerate Art (Red Line Productions), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story (Sydney Theatre Company), 402/63
DICKSON, Ian, The Children (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company), 401/57
DICKSON, Ian, The Dance of Death (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Top Girls (Sydney Theatre Company), 399/71
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Waiting for Godot (Wits’End), 398/60
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Wild (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
GRUBER, Fiona, Bliss (Malthouse Theatre), 402/65
GRUBER, Fiona, Fury (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, On Body and Soul (Daricheh Cinema), online only
HAINING, Maggie, Hedda (Bille Brown Theatre), 407/69
HAINING, Maggie, Nearer the Gods (Queensland Theatre Company), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Dry River Run (Queensland Conservatorium), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Hamlet (Adelaide Festival), 400/72
HARTNELL, Laura, The Harp in the South (Sydney Theatre Company), 405/62
LAVI, Tali, Hir (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 399/67
LAVI, Tali, The Antipodes (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Antony and Cleopatra (Bell Shakespeare), 400/75
LEVER, Susan, I'm Not Running (National Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures), 398/63
LEY, James, Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
MORLEY, Michael, Memorial and human requiem (Adelaide Festival), online only
RICKARD, John, The Dressmaker: A Musical Adaptation (Monash University), online only
ROSE, Peter, Three Tall Women (John Golden Theatre, New York), 402/63
SIMMONDS, Fiona, Saint Joan (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
SPITZKOWSKY, Fiona, Prize Fighter (La Boite Theatre Company), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Scenes from a Marriage (Sydney Opera House), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), 402/66
YEOMAN, Will, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Black Swan State Theatre Company), 402/67
Visual Arts
CLARK, Jane, Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
ENNIS, Helen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 398/61
FRASER, Morag, Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 406/58
FRASER, Morag, The Lady and the Unicorn (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 400/71
GLISIC, Iva, A Window on Italy – The Corsini Collection: Masterpieces from Florence (Art Gallery of Western Australia), online only
GRANT, Sally, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), online only
GRANT, Sally, Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC), 405/64
GRUBER, Fiona, Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester, Through Love (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
GUNN, Grazia, The Field Revisited and Robert Hunter (NGV Australia), online only
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, John Russell: Australia’s French Impressionist (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 404/54
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, Love and Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate (National Gallery of Australia), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco, Louise Paramor: Palace of the Republic, Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley, and Gareth Sansom: Transformer (all at National Gallery Victoria), 398/62
KNEZIC, Sophie, Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Hilarie Mais (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, The Hilarie Mais exhibition (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 400/74
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Wonderland (ACMI), online only
OCHOA, Gabriel Garcia, Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), online only
STIEVEN-TAYLOR, Alison, David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art), online only
Commentary
CHAPLIN, Felicity, ‘Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions Surround the #MeToo Movement’, 402/28
DAMOUSI, Joy, ‘Protecting the National Interest: A Covert Attack on Independent Scholarly Research’, 407/19
DAVIS, Glyn, ‘The PM Years by Kevin Rudd’, online only
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘Odysseus and Me’, 400/58
MACDONALD, Ranald, ‘The Voice of Australia: Defending the Principle of an Independent and Well-Funded ABC’, 403/9
RICKARDS, Lauren, ‘Aluminium Dreams’, 405/29
Fellowships
COLLINS, Paul, ‘God and Caesar in Australia: The close nexus between government and Catholicism’, ABR RAFT Fellowship essay 399/40
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Defying the moment’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 399/14
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘The Art of Pain: Writing in the Age of Trauma’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 406/29
SILCOX, Beejay,‘We Are All MFAs Now: The Rise and Rise of American Creative Writing Degrees’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 403/17
Fiction
FINN, S.J., ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, online only
RICHARDS, Allee, ‘What This Is’, online only
RIWOE, Mirandi, ‘Hardflip’, online only
TASKER, Michael Caleb, ‘Clear Midnight’, online only
WILSON, Chloe, ‘Break Character’, online only
Tribute
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘An Imagination on High Alert: Dorothy Porter (1954–2008)’, 407/50
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
GRAINGER-BROWN, Lucas, ‘We Three Hundred’, 400/45
TRANTER, Kirsten, ‘Once Again: Outside in the House of Art’, 401/29
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
CHONG, Eileen, ‘Compass’, 399/31
HEALY, Katherine, ‘Decoding Paul Klee’s Mit Grunen Strumpfen (With Green Stockings) 1939’, 399/33
HOLT, L.K., ‘The Abstract Blue Background’, 399/32
SLAUGHTER, Tracey, ‘breather’, 399/33
WONG, Nicholas, ‘101, Taipei’, 399/30
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
AMAN, Claire, ‘Vasco’, 403/24
APHRODITE, Sharmini, ‘Between the Mountain and the Sea’, 403/35
LUCAS, Madelaine, ‘Ruins’, 403/44
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
CALLIL, Carmen, 403/70
FEIK, Chris, 405/60
HOLLIER, Nathan, 400/66
MORRISON, Rod, 399/72
Open Page
ETTLER, Justine, 401/64
HAIGH, Gideon, 406/54
KRISTINA OLSSON, 405/56
MASTERS, Chris, 398/68
O’NEILL, Ryan, 404/48
SENTILLES, Sarah, 400/76
SUMMERS, Anne, 407/66
TREMAIN, Rose, 403/76
Poet of the Month
BROPHY, Kevin, 407/54
BROWN, Pam, 401/54
MEAD, Philip, 402/58
WEARNE, Alan, online only
Critic of the Month
NIALL, Brenda, 402/68
Poetry
Poems
ALBISTON, Jordie, ‘break’, 403/56
ALLISON, Davina, ‘Wittgenstein, 1951, Peppered Moth’, 405/16
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Boathouse’, 400/64
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Recital’, 406/50
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby, ‘The Cave of Bliss’, 404/15
ELVEY, Anne, ‘Natality’, 401/19
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Syllabic Patterning’, 403/29
GORTON, Lisa, ‘Landscape with Magic Lantern Slides’, 405/41
HIRSHFIELD, Jane, ‘Interruption: An Assay’, 402/17
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Cyndi Lauper’, 407/53
HOSE, Duncan, ‘Dalgety Dalgety’, 404/21
KINSELLA, John, ‘Inverting Holderlin’s “Geh unter, schone Sonne”’, 400/29
KLEINZAHLER, August, ‘“Coming On The Hudson”: Weehawken’, 406/42
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘The Measurement Institute’, 407/40
MANNING, Julie, ‘Four Rooms’, 401/41
PATTERSON, Ian, ‘The Field’, 401/53
PORTER, Dorothy, ‘Faith’, 407/51
RYAN, Gig, ‘Spring Idylls’, 400/41
SCOTT, John A., Herr Doktor Tulp’s Interrogation (1942), 398/45
States of Poetry
NB the poems listed below are a selection from the States of Poetry anthologies which appeared in print. The complete anthologies can be found and read online here.
BURTON, Pascalle, ‘stones sequence sucked’, 398/49
FERNEY, Liam, ‘Main Street Social’, 398/48
FROST, Zenobia, ‘before / now’, 398/49
JACOBSON, Anna, ‘Discovery’, 398/49
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘Poetry in Queensland’, 398/47
STAVANGER, David, ‘Stock Market’, 398/48
WATSON, Samuel Wagan, ‘When we dreamt like Kerouac, 398/48
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ALLISON, John, 406/59
BOWER, Humphrey, 406/59
BROOKER, Ben, 406/59
BYRNE, Tim, 406/59
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 406/59
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, 406/59
CRAVEN, Peter, 406/59
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 406/59
DICKSON, Ian, 406/59
GRUBER, Fiona, 406/59
HALLIWELL, Michael, 406/59
KILDEA, Paul, 406/59
KNEZIC, Sophie, 406/59
LAVI, Tali, 406/59
LEVER, Susan, 406/59
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 406/59
McFARLANE, Brian, 406/59
MORLEY, Michael, 406/59
RADFORD, Ron, 406/59
ROSE, Peter, 406/59
SCHOFIELD, Lee, 406/59
SHMITH, Michael, 406/59
SIMMONDS, Diana, 406/59
SZABO, Zoltan, 406/59
TREGEAR, Peter, 406/59
WILLIAMS, Kim, 406/59
WILLS, Gillian, 406/59
YEOMAN, Will, 406/59
ZWARTZ, Barney, 406/59
Books of the Year
ALTMAN, Dennis, 407/29
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 407/29
BISHOP, Judith, 407/29
BONGIORNO, Frank, 407/29
CORBOULD, Clare, 407/29
DAVIS, Glyn, 407/29
DAY, Gregory, 407/29
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 407/29
EDELE, Mark, 407/29
EDWARDS, Astrid, 407/29
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 407/29
FRASER, Morag, 407/29
FREEMAN-GREENE, Suzy, 407/29
GILES, Paul, 407/29
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 407/29
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 407/29
GORTON, Lisa, 407/29
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 407/29
HAWKE, John, 407/29
KINSELLA, John, 407/29
LAKE, Marilyn, 407/29
LEY, James, 407/29
LYNCH, Anthony, 407/29
McCOOEY, David, 407/29
NIALL, Brenda, 407/29
PAGE, Geoff, 407/29
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 407/29
SHERIDAN, Susan, 407/29
SILCOX, Beejay, 407/29
WALKER, Brenda, 407/29
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 407/29
WRIGHT, Fiona, 407/29
WYNDHAM, Susan, 407/29
Publisher Picks
BIN SALLEH, Rachel, 398/31
CHRISTER, Nikki, 398/31
CURNOW, Meredith, 398/31
DUFFY, Madonna, 398/31
HEYWARD, Michael, 398/31
IMLAH, Matilda, 398/31
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 398/31
MORRISON, Rod, 398/31
RICHTER, Georgia, 398/31
SCOTT, Barry, 398/31
Favourite Films
ADDISON, Alice, 402/47
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 402/47
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 402/47
DEACON, Desley, 402/47
DU FRESNE, Kylie, 402/47
HARRISS, Lauren Carroll, 402/47
HAWKER, Philippa, 402/47
JONES, Gail, 402/47
KAGAN, Dion, 402/47
McFARLANE, Brian, 402/47
McNAMARA, James, 402/47
PEARCE, Craig, 402/47
PRESCOTT, Nick, 402/47
ROMEI, Stephen, 402/47
ROSE, Peter, 402/47
SHERMAN, Emile, 402/47
WILSON, Jake, 402/47
ARC Grant Controversy
BRETT, Andre, 407/20
DONALDSON, Ian, 407/20
EDELE, Mark, 407/20
FEATHERSTONE, Lisa, 407/20
FULLAGAR, Kate, 407/20
GARDNER, Margaret, 407/20
GARTON, Stephen, 407/20
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/20
HARRIS, Margaret, 407/20
KEVIN, Catherine, 407/20
MEAD, Philip, 407/20
PHIDDIAN, Robert, 407/20
SCHMIDT, Brian, 407/20
Index for 2017: Nos 388–397 & online features
ABR Index 2017
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2017.
2017 Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
AARONS, Mark and John Grenville, The Show: Another side of Santmaria’s Movement, Scribe, 394/17, Lyndon Megarrity
ABBOTT, Sally, Closing Down, Hachette, 392/39, Piri Eddy
ADAMSON, Robert, Flute of Milk, UWA Publishing, 391/40, Geoff Page
AGIER, Michel, translated by David Fernbach, Borderlands: Towards an anthropology of the cosmopolitan condition, Polity, 388/10, Klaus Neumann
ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War, Penguin Classics, 396/60, Miriam Cosic
ALIZADEH, Ali, The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc, Giramondo, 395/21, Shannon Burns
ANDERSON, Jaynie, Christopher R. Marshall, and Andrew Yip (eds), The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics, Power Publications, 391/53, Andrew Fuhrmann
ANGEL, Libby, The Trapeze Act, Text Publishing, 390/34, Anna MacDonald
APTER, Jeff, A Pure Drop: The life and legacy of Jeff Buckley, Echo, 392/68, David Latham
ARMSTRONG, Judith, Dymphna, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 389/16, Brian Matthews
ASHLEY, Melissa, The Birdman’s Wife, Affirm Press, 388/63, Anna MacDonald
ATTWOOD, Bain, The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the Protectors, Monash University Publishing, 397/43, Amanda Nettelbeck
AUSTER, Paul, 4321, Faber & Faber, 390/29, Beejay Silcox
AUSTIN, Cassandra, All Fall Down, Hamish Hamilton, 391/49, Benjamin Chandler
BAIRD, Julia, Victoria: The woman who made the modern world, HarperCollins, 389/18, Margaret Harris
BARKAN, Leonard, Berlin for Jews: A twenty-first century companion, University of Chicago Press, 389/57, Andrea Goldsmith
BARNES, John, La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor, Halstead Press, online only, John Arnold
BATUMAN, Elif, The Idiot, Jonathan Cape, 391/31, Beejay Silcox
BAUM, Caroline, Only: A singular memoir, Allen & Unwin, 389/36, Gillian Dooley
BAXTER, Carol, The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller: An Australian’s true story of adventure, romance, danger and murder, Allen & Unwin, 391/47, Simon Caterson
BECK, Deborah, Rayner Hoff: The life of a sculptor, NewSouth, 396/46, Christopher Menz
BELLOS, David, The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Miserables, Particular Books, 391/29, Paul Kildea
BICKERS, Robert, Out of China: How the Chinese ended the era of Western domination, Allen Lane, online only, Andres Rodriguez
BIRCH, Tony, Common People, UQP, 394/14, Fiona Wright
BLACK, Maggie, Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, NewSouth, 388/16, John Arnold
BOSWORTH, R.J.B., Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover, Yale University Press, 392/53, Diana Glenn
BOYCE, James, Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry, Redback, 391/20, Michael Winkler
BOYLE, Peter, Ghostspeaking, Vagabond, 388/31, Kevin Brophy
BRADLEY, James, The Change Delivery: The silent invasion, Pan Australia, 390/34, Benjamin Chandler
BRAMSTON, Troy, Paul Keating: The big-picture leader, Scribe, 389/8, James Walter
BRANDI, Mark, Wimmera, Hachette, 395/32, Jay Daniel Thompson
BRENNAN, Bernadette, A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her work, Text Publishing, 391/13, Jan McGuinness
BRETT, Judith, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, Text Publishing, 394/8, John Rickard
BRODIE, Nick, The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain’s Tasmanian invasion, Hardie Grant Books, 394/32, Billy Griffiths
BROINOWSKI, Anna, Please Explain: The rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson, Viking, 397/11, Shaun Crowe
BROOKS, Peter, Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel and a terrible year, Basic Books, 397/42, Gemma Betros
BUCKRICH, Judith, The Political Is Personal: A 20th century memoir, Lauranton Books, 390/46, Suzy Freeman-Greene
BURNSIDE, Julian, Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice, Scribe, 396/61, John Eldridge
BURT, Stephen, The Poem Is You: 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them, Harvard University Press, 391/41, Benjamin Madden
CAHILL, Michelle, The Herring Lass, Arc Publications, 392/43, Rose Lucas
CAPP, Fiona, To Know My Crime, HarperCollins, 389/52, Gretchen Shirm
CAREY, Peter, A Long Way from Home, Hamish Hamilton, 396/26, Paul Giles
CARROLL, Steven, A New England Affair, Fourth Estate, 394/16, Patrick Allington
CASTAGNA, Felicity, No More Boats, Giramondo, 392/36, Donata Carrazza
CASTRO, Brian, Blindness and Rage: A phantasmagoria: A novel in thirty-four cantos, Giramondo, 394/40, Patrick Holland
CAUSER, Tim (ed.), Memorandoms by James Martin: An astonishing escape from early New South Wales, UCL Press, online only, James Dunk
CHAIT, Jonathan, Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail, Custom House, 392/12, Varun Ghosh
CHENG, Melanie, Australia Day, Text Publishing, 394/40, Johanna Leggatt
CLARKSON, Rebekah, Barking Dogs, Affirm Press, 389/52, Tali Lavi
CLEARY, Paul, Trillion Dollar Baby: How Norway beat the oil giants and won a lasting fortune, Black Inc., 388/54, Adrian Walsh
COETZEE, J.M., Late Essays 2006–2017, Knopf, 394/11, Sue Kossew
COLE, Teju, Blind Spot, Faber & Faber, 396/58, Louis Klee
COLE-ADAMS, Kate, Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness, Text Publishing, 393/43 Ceridwen Spark
COLEMAN, Claire G., Terra Nullius, Hachette, 397/60, Catherine Noske
COLLIE, Craig, Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks, Allen & Unwin, 392/55, Simon Caterson
COLLINI, Stefan, Speaking of Universities, Verso Books, 395/50, Robert Phiddian
COLLIS, Paul, Dancing Home, University of Queensland Press, 397/43, Jay Daniel Thompson
COLVIN, Mark, Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy’s son, Melbourne University Press, 389/29, Morag Fraser
CONRADI, Peter, Who Lost Russia? How the world entered a new cold war, OneWorld, 393/51, Iva Glisic
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, Whiteley on Trial, Melbourne University Press, 396/34, Johanna Leggatt
CRANE, Ralph, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams, The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950, OUP, 390/12, Paul Giles
CRIBB, Robert, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffen, Wild Man from Borneo: A cultural history of the orangutan, University of Hawai’i Press, 392/40, Danielle Clode
CRONE, J.H., Our Lady of the Fence Post, UWA Publishing, 388/59, Peter Kenneally
DALRYMPLE, Williams and Anita Anand, Koh-I-Noor: The history of the world’s most infamous diamond, Bloomsbury, 396/62, Claudia Hyles
DAPIN, Mark, Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military, New South, 394/49, Elisabeth Holdsworth
DAVIDSON, Jim, A Führer for a Father: The domestic face of colonialism, NewSouth, 394/34, Brian Matthews
DAWE, Bruce, Border Security, UWA Publishing, 388/59, Peter Kenneally
DE KRETSER, Michelle, The Life to Come, Allen & Unwin, 394/18, Beejay Silcox
DE SAINT PHALLE, Catherine, Poum and Alexandre: A Paris memoir, Transit Lounge, 388/59, Kate Ryan
DESSAIX, Robert, The Pleasures of Leisure, Knopf, 391/26, David McCooey
DIONNE Jr, E.J. and Joy-Ann Reid (eds), We Are The Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, Bloomsbury, 392/12, Varun Ghosh
DOLIN, Tim, Joanne Jones and Patricia Dowsett (eds), Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools since 1945, Monash University Publishing, 395/62, Ilana Snyder
DONNELLY, Catherine (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, 389/36, Christopher Menz
DOWER, John W., The Violent American Century: War and terror since World War II, Haymarket Books, 393/52, Alison Broinowski
DOWN, Jennifer, Pulse Points, Text Publishing, 392/13, Susan Midalia
DOWSE, Sara, As The Lonely Fly, For Pity Sake Publishers, 392/38, Tali Lavi
DU PREEZ, Michael and Jeremy Dronfield, Dr James Barry: A woman ahead of her time, 388/49, Oneworld Publications, James Dunk
EDESON, Robert, Bad to Worse, Fremantle Press, 397/62, Barry Reynolds
EDGAR, Patricia and Don Edgar, Peak: Reinventing middle age, Text Publishing, 390/20, Paul Morgan
EDGAR, Stephen, Transparencies, Black Pepper, 393/42, Geoff Page
EMMOTT, Bill, The Fate of the West: The battle to save the world’s most successful political idea, The Economist Books, 396/15, Mark Chou
ERRINGTON, Wayne and Peter van Onselen, The Turnbull Gamble, Melbourne University Press, 388/18, Lucas Grainger-Brown
EVANS, Gareth, Incorrigible Optimist: A political memoir, Melbourne University Press, 396/13, James Walter
FAHEY, Diane, A House By The River, Puncher & Wattmann, 392/45, Gig Ryan
FALUDI, Susan, In the Darkroom, William Collins, 388/11, Suzy Freeman-Greene
FARMER, Beverley, This Water: Five tales, Giramondo, 392/20, Anna MacDonald
FARR, Tracy, The Hope Fault, Fremantle Press, 394/53, Sonia Nair
FERGUSON, Robert, Scandinavians: In search of the soul of the North, Overlook Press, online only, Kári Gíslason
FINDER, Henry (ed.), The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a decade, William Heinemann, 389/21, Diana Bagnall
FINDLAY, Daniel, Year of the Orphan, Bantam, 391/18, Andrew Nette
FISCHER, Luke, A Personal History of Vision, UWA Publishing, 391/39, Geoff Page
FITZGERALD, Michael, The Pacific Room, Transit Lounge, 397/41, Gillian Dooley
FLANAGAN, Richard, First Person, Knopf, 396/27, James Ley
FLANNERY, Tim, Sunlight and Seaweed: An argument for how to feed, power, and clean up the world, Text Publishing, 395/26, Kate Griffiths
FORD, Richard, Between Them: remembering my parents, Bloomsbury, 392/25, Kevin Rabalais
FOX, Catherine, Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business, NewSouth, 394/20, Tali Lavi
FRANCIS, David, Wedding Bush Road, Brio Books, 389/35, Fiona Gruber
FRAZER, Brentley, Scoundrel Days: A memoir, University of Queensland Press , 389/36, Duncan Fardon
GEARTY, Conor, On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and human rights, OUP, 390/47, John Eldridge
GEERING, Ron (ed.), Christina Stead: A web of friendship, selected letters (1928-1973), Miegunyah Press, 391/38, Graeme Powell
GEMMELL, Nikki, After, Fourth Estate, 390/48, Gillian Dooley
GHOSH, Amitav, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, University of Chicago Press, 393/8, Tom Griffiths
GIORGI, Kyra, The Circle and the Equator, UWA Publishing, 393/24, David Latham
GOLDBLOOM, Goldie, Gwen, Fremantle Press, 389/33, Suzanne Falkiner
GONSALVES, Roanna, The Permanent Resident, UWA Publishing, 390/34, Sara Savage
GORMAN, Joe, The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, University of Queensland Press, 397/64, Ryan Cropp
GOTTLIEB, Anthony, The Dream of Enlightenment: The rise of modern philosophy, Allen Lane, 391/48, Tim Smartt
GRANT, Bruce, Subtle Moments: Scenes on a life’s journey, Monash University Publishing, 390/23, Alison Broinowski
GRAY, Jenny, Zoo Ethics: The challenges of compassionate conservation, CSIRO Publishing, 395/47, Matthew Chrulew
GRAYLING, A.C., The Age of Genius: The seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind, Bloomsbury, 388/50, Kristian Camilleri
GREEN, Charles, and Anthony Gardner, Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The exhibitions that created contemporary art, Wiley-Blackwell, 392/69, Sophie Knezic
GREEN, Michael et al. (ed.), They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention, Allen & Unwin, 391/18, Madeline Gleeson
GREENFIELD, Susan, A Day in the Life of the Brain: The neuroscience of consciousness from dawn till dusk, Allen Lane, 390/26, Nick Haslam
GRENVILLE, Kate, The Case Against Fragrance, Text Publishing, 390/22, Diana Bagnall
GRESTE, Peter, The First Casualty, Viking, 397/23, Kevin Foster
GYNGELL, Allan, Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942, La Trobe University Press/ Black Inc., 391/17, Frank Bongiorno
HAMILTON, Clive, Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene, Allen & Unwin, 395/41, Lauren Rickards
HANINK, Johanna, The Classical Debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity, Belknap Press, online only, Peter Acton
HASKELL, David George, The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors, Black Inc., 395/31, Roger McDonald
HASKELL, Molly, Steven Spielberg: A life in films, Yale University Press, 391/58, Jake Wilson
HAWKE, Bob with Derek Rielly, Wednesdays with Bob, Macmillan, 397/14, Richard Walsh
HAY, Ashley, A Hundred Small Lessons, Allen & Unwin, 391/34, Tessa Lunney
HAYES, Bill, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and me, Bloomsbury, 391/46, Suzy Freeman-Greene
HELM, Dieter, Burn Out: The end game for fossil fuels, Yale University Press, 395/46, Peter Christoff
HERRERA, Yuri, translated by Lisa Dillman, The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World, Text Publishing, 388/30, Gabriel García Ochoa
HEYMAN, Kathryn, Storm and Grace, Allen & Unwin, 389/34, Anna MacDonald
HIGGINS, Claire, Asylum by boat: Origins of Australia’s refugee policy, UNSW Press, 396/18, Klaus Neumann
HOCKING, Jenny (ed.), Making modern Australia: The Whitlam government’s 21st century agenda, Monash University Publishing, 396/19, Stephen Mills
HOCKING, Jenny, The Dismissal Dossier: everything you were never meant to know about November 1975, Melbourne University Press, 397/13, Frank Bongiorno
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2016, Black Inc., 389/44, John Hawke
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2017, Black Inc., 397/58, Gregory Day
HORNE, Nick (ed.), Donald Horne: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 393/14, Ryan Cropp
HORNUNG, Eva, The Last Garden, Text Publishing, 392/22, Bernadette Brennan
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, Like Nothing On This Earth: A literary history of the wheatbelt, 392/38, Delys Bird
HUNT, Bruce, Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880, Monash University Publishing, ONLINE, Seumas Spark
HUNT, Bruce, Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880, Monash University Publishing, ONLINE, Seumas Spark
HUSTVEDT, Siri, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on art, sex, and the mind, Sceptre, 388/55, Jennifer Levasseur
HYTNER, Nicholas, Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre, Jonathan Cape, 396/48, Brian McFarlane
INGS, Simon, Stalin and the Scientists: A history of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953, Faber & Faber, 390/35, Mark Edele
IRISH, Paul, Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney, NewSouth, 393/13, Alan Atkinson
JAMES, Jamie, The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the lost age of the exotics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 391/44, Paul Giles
JAMES, Karl, Double Diamonds: Australian commandos in the Pacific War 1941–45, NewSouth, 388/51, Kevin Foster
JANACZEWSKA, Noelle, The Book of Thistles, UWA Publishing, 397/39, Ceridwen Spark
JOHNSON, Judy, Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet, UWA Publishing, 391/40, Geoff Page
JOHNSON, Miranda, The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, law and the settler state, Oxford University Press, 391/42, Kevin Bell
JOHNSTON, Ian, The Souls of China: The return of religion after Mao, Allen Lane, 397/16, David Brophy
JONES, Rebecca, Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 395/24, Deb Anderson
JONES, Reece, Violent Borders: Refugees and the right to move, Verso, 388/8, Klaus Neumann
JOOSTEN, Melanie, Gravity Well, Scribe, 392/37, Naama Grey-Smith
JOSEPH, Sue, Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers, Hybrid Pulihsers, 390/48, Tali Lavi
JOY, Amanda, Snake Like Charms, UWA Publishing, 392/43, Rose Lucas
KAMINSKY, Leah, We’re All Going to Die, HarperCollins, 389/60, John Funder
KAY, Adam, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret diaries of a junior doctor, Picador, 397/40, James McNamara
KEFALA, Antigone, Fragments, Giramondo Poets, 392/45, Gig Ryan
KELADA, Odette, Drawing Sybylla, UWA Publishing, 397/61, Fiona Wright
KELLS, Stuart, The Library: A catalogue of wonders, Text Publishing, online only, Des Cowley
KEOGH, Paula, The Green Bell, Affirm Press, 389/52, Gig Ryan
KEVIN, Tony, Return to Moscow, UWA Publishing, 389/58, Nick Hordern
KIERNAN, Ben, Viet Nam: A history from earliest times to the present, OUP, 392/9, Robin Gerster
KIMBER, Gerri, Katherine Mansfield: The early years, Edinburgh University Press (NewSouth), 388/23, Ann-Marie Priest
KINSELLA, John and Tracy Ryan (eds), The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle Press, 390/38, Geoff Page
KINSELLA, John, Graphology Poems 1995–2015, Five Islands Press, 389/47, David McCooey
KINSELLA, John, Old Growth, Transit Lounge, 390/30, Brenda Walker
KIRCHICK, James, The End of Europe: Dictators, demagogues, and the coming Dark Age, Yale University Press, 394/19, Colin Wight
KISHTAINY, Niall, A Little History of Economics, Yale University Press, 394/42, Geoffrey Blainey
KOHLER, Sheila, Once We Were Sisters, Allen & Unwin, 393/19, Tali Lavi
KULIKOWSKI, Michael, Imperial Triumph: The Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine, Profile Books, 390/36, Christopher Allen
KURMELOVS, Royce, Rogue Nation: Despatches from Australia’s populist uprisings and outsider politics, Hachette, 397/11, Shaun Crowe
LAGUNA, Sofie, The Choke, Allen & Unwin, 394/12, James Ley
LAKE, Peter, How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and succession in the history plays, Yale University Press, 396/36, Robert S. White
LAMB, Jonathan, Scurvy: The disease of discovery, Princeton University Press, 390/14, Alan Atkinson
LAMOND, Julieanne (ed.), Australian Literary Studies, Australian Literary Studies, 390/45, Gillian Dooley
LANGFORD, Martin et al. (eds), Contemporary Australian Poetry, Puncher & Wattmann, 389/43, John Hawke
LATOUR, Bruno, translated by Catherine Porter, Facing Gaia: Eight lectures on the new climatic regime, Polity, 396/15, Kathrin Bartha
LAW, Benjamin, Moral Panic 101: Equality, acceptance and the Safe Schools scandal (Quarterly Essay 67), Black Inc.,397/44, Dan Dixon
LE CARRÉ, John, A Legacy of Spies, Viking, 395/64, Simon Caterson
LEUCHTENBERG, William E., The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, Oxford University Press, 394/46, Andrew Broertjes
LEVY, Ariel, The Rules Do Not Apply, Hachette, 396/32, Carol Middleton
LEWIS, Cassie, The Blue Decodes, Grand Parade Poets, 394/58, Joan Fleming
LONEY, Alan, Melbourne Journal: Notebooks: 1988–2003, UWA Publishing, 388/60, Peter Kenneally
LUCE, Edward, The retreat of Western Liberalism, Little, Brown, 396/15, Mark Chou
MACINTYRE, Stuart, Lenore Layman, and Jenny gregory, A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton, Monash University Publishing, 393/18, Wilfrid Prest
MACKLIN, Robert, Hamilton Hume: Our greatest explorer, Hachette, 390/48, Katy Gerner
MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Metronome, Giramondo, 391/24, Jill Jones
MALEY, William, What Is a Refugee?, Scribe, 388/8, Klaus Neumann
MANHIRE, Bill, Some Things to Place in a Coffin, Victoria University Press, 392/42, Paul Hetherington
MANNE, Robert, The Mind of the Islamic State, Redback, 392/52, Michael Winkler
MARR, David, The White Queen: One Nation and the politics of race (Quarterly Essay 65), Black Inc., 391/21, Lucas Grainger-Brown
MASSY, Charles, The Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture – a new Earth, University of Queensland Press, 395/44, Tim Flannery
MATHEWS, Race, Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria 1891–1966, Monash University Publishing, 392/50, John Rickard
MATTHEWS, Brian, Benaud: An appreciation, Text Publishing, 388/62, Varun Ghosh
MCCOOEY, David, Star Struck, UWA Publishing, 388/60, Peter Kenneally
MCCREDDEN, Lyn, The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and sacred, Sydney University Press, 392/23, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
MCDONALD, Neil, with Peter Brune, Valiant for Truth: The life of Chrster Wilmot, war correspondent, NewSouth, 390/27, Kevin Foster
McDONALD, Roger, A Sea-Chase, Vintage, 396/31, Brian Matthews
McGrath, Ann, Illicit Love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia, University of Nebraska Press, 390/16, Mark McKenna
MCGUIRE, M.E., Cynthia Nolan: A biography, Melbourne Books, 388/25, Jill Burton
MCKENNA, Mark, From the Edge: Australia’s lost histories, Melbourne University Press, 388/14, Michael Winkler
MCKINNON, Catherine, Storyland, Fourth Estate, 391/32, Doug Wallen
McKNIGHT, Harriet, Rain Birds, Black Inc., 395/31, Gretchen Shirm
MCLENNAN, Cathy, Saltwater, University of Queensland Press, 388/61, Sue Bond
MCMILLAN, Andrew, Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil, Hachette, 391/54, Gareth Hipwell
MCNAB, Duncan, Getting Away With Murder, Vintage Books, 389/55, Robert Reynolds
MENKHORST, Peter et al., The Australian Bird Guide, CSIRO Publishing, 395/49, Richard Noske
MILLER, Alex, The Passage of Love, Allen & Unwin, 396/23, Geordie Williamson
MILLIGAN, Louise, Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell, Melbourne University Press, 395/16, Barney Zwartz
MODIANO, Patrick, translated by Euan Cameron, So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood, Quercus, 394/37, Phoebe Weston-Evans
MONBIOT, George, How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, equality, nature, Vero, 393/21, David Schlosberg
MORRISON, Simon, Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today, Fourth Estate, 388/35, Lee Christofis
MULDOON, Paul, Selected Poems 1968–2014, Faber Poetry, 394/57, Anthony Lawrence
MURNANE, Gerald, Border Districts, Giramondo, 397/26, Beejay Silcox
MURRAY, Valerie, Flight From the Brothers Grimm: A European-Australian memoir, Books Unleashed, 389/54, Elisabeth Holdsworth
NEILL, Roger, Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and her pupils, NewSouth, 388/37, John Rickard
NGUYEN, Viet Thanh, The Refugees, Corsair, 390/32, Kerryn Goldsworthy
NIALL, Brenda, Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story, Text Publishing, 397/38, Susan Wyndham
NOWRA, Louis, Woolloomooloo: A biography, NewSouth, 391/27, Nicole Abadee
O’REILLY, Nathanael, New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham, UWA Publishing, 390/39, Susan Sheridan
O’ROURKE, P.J., How the Hell did this Happen? The election of 2016, Allen & Unwin, 391/9, James McNamara
ORR, Stephen, Datsunland, Wakefield Press, 392/35, Catherine Noske
PATERSON, Eddie, Redactor, Whitmore Press, 394/58, Joan Fleming
PATRIC, A.S., Atlantic Black, Transit Lounge, 397/29, Kerryn Goldsworthy
PENNY, Laurie, Bitch Doctrine: Essays for dissenting adults, Bloomsbury, 396/22, Suzy Freeman-Greene
PERIČIĆ, Marija, The Lost Pages, Allen & Unwin, 393/38, Shannon Burns
PERLOFF, Marjorie, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire, University of Chicago, 391/30, Shannon Burns
PERSIAN, Jayne, Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians, NewSouth, online only, Francesca Sasnaitis
PETTIFOR, Ann, The Production of Money: How to break the power of bankers, Verso, 392/54, Adrian Walsh
PIERCE, Brett, Beyond the Vapour Trail: The beauty, horror and humour of life: An aid worker’s story, Transit Lounge, 391/42, Katy Gerner
POLITES, Peter, Down the Hume, Hachette, 391/49, Crusader Hillis
PRENDERGAST, Christopher, (ed.), A history of Modern French Literature: From the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, Princeton University Press, 394/55, Colin Nettelbeck
PRESCOTT, Shaun, The Town, The Lifted Brow, 394/36, Shannon Burns
PRESSER, Bram, The Book of Dirt, Text Publishing, 396/30, Anna MacDonald
PURI, Anisa, and Alistair Thomson, Australian Lives: An intimate history, Monash University Publishing, 393/16, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
RABINOVICH, Itamar, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, leader, statesman, Yale University Press, 394/45, Danielle Celermajer
RABINYAN, Dorit, translated by Jessica Cohen, All The Rivers, Serpent’s Tail, online only, Ilana Snyder
RACHMAN, Gideon, Easternization: Asia’s rise and America’s decline: From Obama to Trump and beyond, Other Press, 397/47, David Fettling
RAWSON, Jane, From the Wreck, Transit Lounge , 390/31, Fiona Wright
REDFIELD JAMISON, Kay, Robert Lowell: Setting the river on fire: A study of genius, mania and character, Knopf, 394/52, Ian Dickson
RICE, Condoleezza, Democracy: Stories from the long road to freedom, Twelve, 393/22, Mark Chou
ROBERTSON, Eliza, Demi-Gods, Bloomsbury, 397/27, Felicity Plunkett
ROBERTSON, Peter, Radio Astronomers: John Bolton and a new window on the universe, NewSouth, 394/43, Robyn Williams
ROSE, Heather, The Museum of Modern Love, Allen & Unwin, 388/63, Duncan Fardon
ROY, Arundhati, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Hamish Hamilton, 392/18, Kerryn Goldsworthy
RUBIN SULEIMAN, Susan, The Némirovsky Question: The life, death and legacy of a Jewish writer in 20th-century France, Yale University Press, 391/15, Colin Nettelbeck
SAFRAN, John, Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going rogue with Australian deplorables, 392/26, Johanna Leggatt
SALA, Michael, The Restorer, Text Publishing, 390/33, Blanche Clarke
SANDERS, Jennifer (ed.), Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana fund, NewSouth, 397/71, John Thompson
SAUNDERS, George, Lincoln in the Bardo, Bloomsbury, 389/31, Beejay Silcox
SAYER, Mandy, Australian Gypsies: Their secret history, NewSouth, 397/46, Michael Winkler
SCHILLING, Heinz, translated by Rona Johnston, Martin Luther: Rebel in an age of upheaval, Oxford University Press, 396/10, Morag Fraser
SCHLINK, Bernhard, The Woman on the Stairs, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 389/30, Miriam Cosic
SCHMIDT, Sarah, See What I Have Done, Hachette, 391/49, Anna MacDonald
SCHULTZ, Julianne and Patrick Allington (eds), Griffith Review 55: State of hope, Griffith University/Text Publishing, 392/56, Robert Crocker
SCHWARZ, Alan, ADHD Nation: The disorder, the drugs, the inside story, Hachette, 388/46, Nick Haslam
SCOTT, Kim, Taboo, Picador, 393/35, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
SCRUTON, Roger, The Ring of Truth, Allen Lane, 388/45, Tim Byrne
SEBBA, Anne, Les Parisiennes: How the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 390/45, Colin Nettelbeck
SENTILLES, Sarah, Draw Your Weapons, Text Publishing, 393/11, Bernadette Brennan
SERONG, Jock, On the Java Ridge, Text Publishing, 393/36, Miriam Cosic
SHAMSIE, Kamila, Home Fire, Bloomsbury, 395/22, Nicole Abadee
SHIRM, Gretchen, Where the Light Falls, Allen & Unwin, 388/51, Josephine Taylor
SIGMAN, Mariano, The Secret Life of The Mind: How our brain thinks, feels and decides, Williams Collins, 394/44, Nick Haslam
SIMPSON, John, The Word Detective: A life in words, from serendipity to selfie, Little, Brown, 389/59, Bruce Moore
SISMAN, Adam (ed.), Dashing for the Post: The letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray, online only, Ian Britain
SMITH, Ali, Autumn, Hamish Hamilton, 388/27, Shannon Burns
SMITH, Pip, Half Wild, Allen & Unwin, 397/40, Anna MacDonald
SPARGO-RYAN, Anna, The Gulf, Picador, 394/39, Josephine Taylor
SPARROW, Jeff, No Way But This: In search of Paul Robeson, Scribe, 390/55, Andrew Fuhrmann
SPOTTS, Frederic, Cursed Legacy: The tragic life of Klaus Mann, Yale University Press (Footprint), 388/43, Evelyn Juers
SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce, Born to Run, Simon & Schuster, 389/66, Varun Ghosh
STEDMAN JONES, Gareth, Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion, Allen Lane, 389/14, Sujatha Fernandes
STEINER, George and Laure Adler, A Long Saturday: Conversations, University of Chicago Press, 397/63, Andrew Fuhrmann
STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ, Seth, Everybody Lies: What the internet can tell us about who we really are, Bloomsbury, 396/21, Kirk Graham
STOCKINGS, Craig and John Connor (eds), The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth, 394/48, Seumas Spark
STOURTON, James, Kenneth Clark: Life, art and civilization, HarperCollins, 390/56, Patrick McCaughey
SYME, Rodney, Time to Die, Melbourne University Publishing, 390/19, Deborah Zion
TAIBBI, Matt, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, Penguin, 391/9, James McNamara
TAMPKE, Jürgen, A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles peace treaty and the success of the Nazis, Scribe, 392/22, Miriam Cosic
TAN, Elizabeth, Rubik, Brio, 369/29, Cassandra Atherton
TAPLIN, Jonathan, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy, Macmillan, online only, Joel Deane
TAYLOR JOHNSON, Heather, Jean Harley Was Here, University of Queensland Press, 391/33, Anna Spargo-Ryan
TAYLOR, Cheryl (ed.), Thea Astley: Selected poems, University of Queensland Press, 396/59, Susan Sheridan
TAYLOR, Rebe, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity, Melbourne University Press, 391/22, Philip Jones
THAROOR, Shashi, Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India, Scribe, 395/61, Mridula Nath Chakraborty
THOMSON, David, Television: A biography, Thames & Hudson, 389/71, James McNamara
TIFFEN, Rodney, Disposable Leaders: Media and leadership coups from Menzies to Abbott, NewSouth, 390/24, Dennis Altman
TÓIBÍN, Colm, House of Names, Picador, 393/34, Robert Dessaix
TONKIN, Maggie, Fifty: Half a century of Australian dance theatre, Wakefield Press, online only, Lee Christofis
TOVEY, Noel, And Then I Found Me, Magabala Books, 391/45, Dennis Altman
TRENTMANN, Frank, Empire of Things: How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first, Allen Lane, 388/47, Benjamin Madden
TRÜMPI, Fritz, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg, The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich, University of Chicago Press, 392/67, Michael Morley
TRUONG, Marcelino, translated by David Homel, Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961 – 63, NewSouth, 392/51, Dilan Gunawardana
TYNAN, Elizabeth, Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story, NewSouth, 389/23, Danielle Clode
VAROUFAKIS, Yanis, Adults in the Room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment, The Bodley Head, 393/24, Simon Tormey
WALSH, Richard, Reboot: A democracy makeover to empower Australia’s voters, Melbourne University Press, 394/33, Shaun Crowe
WATSON, Anne, the Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House, OpusSOH, 396/47, Andrew Montana
WATSON, Don (compiler), A Single Tree: Voices from the bush, Hamish Hamilton, 388/13, Angelo Loukakis
WATT, Paul, Ernest Newman: A critical biography, The Boydell Press, 396/44, Michael Shmith
WEARNE, Alan, These Things Are Real, Giramondo, 397/59, Peter Kenneally
WEBB, Robert, How Not To Be A Boy, Canongate, 397/40, James McNamara
WHISH-WILSON, David, Old Scores, Fremantle Press, 388/63, Dean Biron
WHITE, R.S., Shakespeare’s Cinema of Love: A study in genre and influence, Manchester University Press, 392/63, David McInnis
WILLIAMS, Mark (ed.), A History of New Zealand Literature, Cambridge University Press, 390/10, Elizabeth McMahon
WILLIAMSON, Geordie (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2016, Black Inc., 389/22, Glyn Davis
WILSON, A.N., Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker, John Murray, 397/22, Danielle Clode
WILSON, Josephine, Extinctions, UWA Publishing, 388/28, Gillian Dooley
WINDSOR, Gerard, The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today, NewSouth, 390/21, Michael McGirr
WOHLLEBEN, Peter, translated by Jane Billinghurst, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, grief and compassion – surprising observations of a hidden world, Bodley Head, online only, Ben Brooker
WOMERSLEY, Chris, City of Crows, Picador, 395/63, David Whish-Wilson
WOOD, Charlotte (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2016, Black Inc., 388/26, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WOOLFE, Sue, Do You Love Me Or What?, Simon & Schuster, 389/32, Jane Sullivan
YOUNG, Ashleigh, Can You Tolerate This?:Personal essays, Giramondo, 394/56, Mark Williams
ZIEGLER, Edith M. (ed.), Darling Mother, Darling Son: The letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972, NewSouth and Sydney Living Museums, online only, John Thompson
ZISIN, Nevo, Finding Nevo, Black Dog Books, 392/50, Crusader Hillis
2017 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here
Arts commentary
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘A win for Namatjira’, 397/72
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘The Copyright of Albert Namatjira’, 390/18
SHMITH, Michael, Why I Quit as Opera Critic of The Age, online only
Dance
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (The Australian Ballet), 395/71
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Woolf Works and a Winter’s Tale (The Royal Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Lord of the Flies (New Adventures/Re:Bourne), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Faster (The Australian Ballet), online only
Festivals
BROOKER, Ben, The Sound of Falling Stars (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), 393/71
COWLEY, Des, 2017 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues (Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues), online only
COWLEY, Des, 2017 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF), online only
COWLEY, Des, Jazz Greats Weekend at Monash (Monash Academy of Performing Arts), online only
GRUBER, Fiona, The Age of Bones (AsiaTOPA), 390/63
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Satan Jawa (AsiaTOPA), 390/61
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, 2017 Melbourne Festival (Melbourne Festival), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Dark Mofo (MONA), online only
MORLEY, Michael, Adelaide Festival, 390/51
Film
BYRNE, Tim, Lion (Transmission Films), 389/67
BYRNE, Tim, Silence (Transmission), 390/58
CRAWFORD, Anwen, A Quiet Passion (Palace Films), 393/67
CRAWFORD, Anwen, A United Kingdom (Transmission Films), 388/42
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Berlin Syndrome (Entertainment One), 391/56
CRAWFORD, Anwen, God’s Own Country (Rialto Distribution), 395/66
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Manchester by the Sea (Universal Pictures),390/60
CRAWFORD, Anwen, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Madman Films), 397/70
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Things to Come (Palace Films), 392/64
DUNK, James, Land of Mine (Palace Films), 391/60
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Denial (Entertainment One), 391/59
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Disaster Artist (Roadshow Films), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Wonder Wheel (Entertainment One), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Three Summers (Transmission Films), online only
KAGAN, Dion, Tom of Finland (Palace Films), online only
MCFARLANE, Brian, My Cousin Rachel (Fox Searchlight), online only
MENEGHELLO, Nadia, The Sense of an Ending (Roadshow Films), online only
MONAGHAN, Whitney, Moonlight (Roadshow Films), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Jasper Jones (Madman Films), 389/68
OCHOA, Gabriel Garcia, Neruda (Palace Films), online only
SASNAITIS, Francesca, On Chesil Beach (Palace Cinemas), 397/67
SASNAITIS, Francesca, Song to Song (Roadshow Films), 396/71
SASNAITIS, Francesca, The King’s Choice (Palace Films), 394/67
SEPEHRI, Darius, Loving Vincent (Madman Entertainment), online only
SILCOX, Beejay, I Am Not Your Negro (Madman Entertainment), 396/69
SMITH, Barnaby, Namatjira Project (Umbrella Entertainment), 395/67
SMITH, Barnaby, Whiteley (Transmission Films), 392/58
WILSON, Jake, The Lost City of Z (StudioCanal), 394/63
WINDSOR, Harry, Suburbicon (Roadshow Films), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, Blade Runner 2049 (Sony Pictures), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, Mother! (Paramount Pictures), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, A Monster Calls (Entertainment One), online only
Music
BARMBY, David, Turangalîla-Symphonie (Australian World Orchestra), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Que Reste t’il (Arts Centre Melbourne), online only
COWLEY, Des, Travelling Tales (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, The Usefulness of Art (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
FRASER, Morag, Das Lied von der Erde (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), 393/62
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Long String Instrument (The Substation and Liquid Architecture), online only
LARKIN, David, Hong Kong Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden (Hong Kong Philharmonic), online only
LARKIN, David, András Schiff: ‘The Last Sonatas’ (Kajimoto), online only
MENZ, Christopher, Angela Hewitt (Musica Viva), 392/66
ROSE, Peter, Maxim Vengerov (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), 390/60
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Rachel Podger and the OAE (Musica Viva), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Sibelius & Mahler (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Yuja Wang plays Beethoven (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Pelléas et Mélisande (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Maria Callas Live (Warner Classics Erato), online only
Opera
ALLISON, John, Otello (Royal Opera House), online only
APPLEBY, Rosalind, Lucia di Lammermoor (WA Opera), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Norma (Metropolitan Opera), online only
DICKSON, Ian, The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera / Victorian Opera), online only
DOOLEY, Gillian, Eugene Onegin/Orpheus Underground (Co-Opera/Various People Inc), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Hamlet (Glyndebourne Opera), 393/63
HALLIWELL, Michael, Coronation of Poppea (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, La Bohème (Opera Australia), online only
HOLDSWORTH, Rob, Roberto Devereux (Melbourne Opera), online only
JACKSON, Alastair, Cav-and-Pag (Opera Australia), 392/61
JACKSON, Alastair, La Bohème and Die Zauberflote (Royal Opera House), online only
JACKSON, Alastair, Cunning Little Vixen (Victorian Opera), online only
LARKIN, David, King Roger (Opera Australia), 389/69
MENZ, Christopher, Parsifal (Opera Australia), 394/60
ROSE, Peter, De Ring des Nibelungen (Opera Australia), 388/39
ROSE, Peter, Thaïs (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Thais (Opera Australia), online only
ROSE, Peter, La Sonnambula (Victorian Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Tis Pity (Victorian Opera), online only
Television and Games
FLYNN, Chris, Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Entertainment), 391/61
FLYNN, Chris, The Walking Dead: A new frontier (Telltale Games), 391/61
FLYNN, Chris, What Remains of Edith Finch / Little Nightmares (Giant Sparrow / Tarsier Games), online only
MCNAMARA, James, The Crown (Netflix), 388/38
Theatre
BRENNAN, Bernadette, The Testament of Mary (Sydney Theatre Company), 389/62
BROOKER, Ben, 1984 (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 392/70
BROOKER, Ben, Macbeth (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 395/70
BYRNE, Tim, Merrily We Roll Along (Watch This), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Shrine (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Awakening (MUST/fortyfivedownstairs), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company), 390/59
DICKSON, Ian, Cloud Nine (Sydney Theatre Company), 393/68
DICKSON, Ian, Ghosts (Belvoir St Theatre), 396/68
DICKSON, Ian, The Bleeding Tree (Sydney Theatre Company), 391/55
DICKSON, Ian, Three Sisters (Sydney Theatre Company), 397/66
DICKSON, Ian, Kindertransport (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, This Much Is True (Red Line Productions), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Mark Colvin’s Kidney (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Away (Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, John (Melbourne Theatre Company), 390/62
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Shakespeare: The complete works (Decca), 389/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, The Real and Imagined History of Elephant Man (Malthouse Theatre Company), 394/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Three Little Words (Melbourne Theatre Company), 392/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Waiting for Godot (Wits' End / Eleventh Hour Theatre), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Macbeth (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Little Emperors (Malthouse Theatre), online only
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, The Merchant of Venice (Bell Shakespeare), 394/61
GRUBER, Fiona, American Song (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 396/67
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Trainspotting (In Your Face Theatre), 391/57
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, A Trip to Spain (Madman Entertainment), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Woyzeck in Winter (Landmark Productions / Galway International Arts Festival), online only
LEA, Bronwyn, Noises Off (Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company), 393/70
LEA, Bronwyn, Scenes from a Marriage (Queensland Theatre), 397/69
LEVER, Susan, Richard 3 (Bell Shakespeare), 390/50
LEVER, Susan, The Father (Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company), 395/68
LEVER, Susan, Muriel's Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures), online only
MCLEOD, Andrew, Apologia (Trafalgar Studios), online only
MIDDLETON, Carol, Minnie & Liraz (Melbourne Theatre Company), 392/71
ROSE, Peter, L'amante anglaise by Marguerite Duras (La Mama Theatre and fortyfivedownstairs), online only
ROSS, Dina, The Realistic Joneses (Red Stitch), online only
SULLIVAN, Jane, Ink, 394/65
VAN SCHILT, Stephanie, Ladies in Black (Queensland Theatre), online only
Visual Arts
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Letter From Paris (Centre Pompidou, Museum of Art and History of Judaism, Palais Garnier), 390/53
CLARK, Jane, Not As The Songs of Other Lands (Ian Potter Museum of Art), 391/63
ENNIS, Helen, Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium (Art Gallery of NSW), online only
GASCOIGNE, Hester, Nude: Art from the Tate collection (Art Gallery of NSW), online only
GRANT, Sally, On Country (The Metropolitan Museum), 396/65
HILL, Peter, Van Gogh and the Seasons (National Gallery of Victoria), 392/59
KNEZIC, Sophie, Del Kathryn Barton, Louise Paramor, Helen Maudsley, and Gareth Sansom (NGV Australia), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Philippe Parreno: Thenabouts (ACMI), online only
MARTIN-CHEW, Louise, Gerhard Richter: The life of images (QAGOMA), online only
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, Giacometti (Tate Modern), 393/66
MENZ, Christopher, Versailles: Treasures from the Palace and A History of the World in 100 Objects (National Gallery of Australia and National Museum of Australia), 388/33
MENZ, Christopher, On the Origin of Art (MONA), 398/63
SASNAITIS, Francesca, In Cahoots: artists collaborate across Country (Fremantle Arts Centre), online only
SHMITH, Michael, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics (Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal Opera House), online only
ZDANOWICZ, Irena, Fred Williams in the You Yangs (Geelong Gallery), 396/64
Commentary
EDELE, Mark, ‘A century after 1917: Why should you care about the Russian Revolution?’, 395/10
FRASER, Morag, ‘The irreplaceable: A tribute to John Clarke (1948–2017)’, 391/52
JONES, Philip, ‘Among the Trees’, 395/33
MCKIBBIN, Ross, ‘Whatever it takes: A chronicle of failure and deceit in the Chilcot Report’, 389/11
OCHOA, Gabriel García, ‘The City of Palaces’, 388/20
PENDER, Kieran, ‘When sport and politics collide’, 397/19
REID, Susan, ‘Adani and the Galilee Basin’, 395/29
ROSE, Peter, ‘The same-sex marriage debate’, 394/2
ROSE, Peter, ‘Victory for marriage-equality’, 396/9
WESTON-EVANS, Phoebe, ‘Letter from Paris’, 392/15
WINTER, Jay, ‘Inga Clendinnen: An Appreciation’, 389/24
Fellowships
HOLDSWORTH, Elisabeth, ‘If This Is a Jew: Progressive Judaism around the world’, 396/49
JOHNSON, Marguerite, ‘Picnic and Hanging Rock fifty years on’, ABR Gender Fellowship Essay, 397/49
JONES, Philip, ‘Beyond Songlines’, ABR Patrons’ Fellowship Essay, 394/21
ORR, Stephen, ‘Ambassadors from Another Time’, ABR Eucalypt Fellowship Essay, 395/52
Fiction
ALVER, Stevi-Lee, ‘Contributory Negligence’, online only
GETHINS, Marie, ‘The Fog Harvester’, online only
CHIDGEY, Catherine, ‘The Man I Should Have Married’, online only
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ADAMS, Michael, ‘Salt Blood’, 392/27
SEPEHRI, Darius, ‘To Speak of Sorrow’, 393/53
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
DZERIGIAN, Ronald ‘Four Egrets’, 389/38
KLEE, Louis, ‘Sentence to Lilacs’, 389/41
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Laika’, 389/39
O’BRIEN, Damen, ‘pH’, 389/42
PHILLIPS, Michael Lee, ‘Drone’, 389/37
SAUNDERS, Jen, ‘The Snow Lies Deep’, 389/38
TU, Jessie, ‘and it is what it is’, 389/40
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
AMERENA, Dominic, ‘The Leaching Layer’, 393/27
CURTIS, Lauren Aimee, ‘Butter’, 393/39
ROBERTSON, Eliza, ‘Pheidippides’, 393/44
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
ADLER, Louise, 393/65
GALASSI, Jonathan, 389/72
HEYWARD, Michael, 388/53
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 391/50
ROSENBLOOM, Henry, 392/49
WALSH, Richard, 394/68
Open Page
DAY, Gregory, 393/72
HAY, Ashley, 390/64
MAHOOD, Kim, 388/64
McDONALD, Roger, 396/72
NOWRA, Louis, 391/64
WILSON, Josephine, 395/72
Poet of the Month
HETHERINGTON, Paul, 390/40
LEA, Bronwyn, 389/46
Critic of the Month
FRASER, Morag, 392/72
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 390/28
Poetry
Poems
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The New Maps Keep a Weather Eye’, 395/27
BRIGLEY THOMPSON, Zoe, ‘Swan’, 397/48
DEWALD, Jay, ‘[sanctum sanctorum our windowless attic...]’, 393/26
DEWEESE, Christopher, ‘I was the greatest art potter’, 391/43
DOUGAN, Lucy, ‘Art Detective’, 394/41
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Liked In Prison’, 392/17
FLEMING, Joan, ‘Imprints of Water’, 396/35
HETHERINGTON, Paul, ‘Ship’, 390/17
KOCHER, Shari, ‘Back Door with Snow’, 392/62
LEA, Bronwyn, ‘Zeitgeist’, 391/19
MEAD, Philip, ‘Ithaca Road’, 397/24
ROSE, Peter, ‘Attention, Please’, 395/19
WELSON, Annamaria, ‘ghost flock’, 396/24
ZWICKY, Fay, ‘Little Fly’, 393/15
States of Poetry
NB the poems listed below are a selection from the States of Poetry anthologies which appeared in print. The complete anthologies can be found and read online here: Series One and Series Two
BARNES, Stuart, ‘Black Cockatoos’, 388/57
BOBIS, Merlinda, ‘Lucy afloat’, 392/48
BROCK, Steve, ‘dreaming with Ted Berrigan’, 389/50
CRONIN, MTC, ‘The World’s Yard’, 388/57
EBERHARD, Adrienne, ‘kangaroo grass’, 390/42
FOGARTY, Lionel, ‘Jealousy of the Undertow/Tombstone’, 388/56
FOULCHER, John, ‘Mark, Pauline and Me’, 392/48
HETHERINGTON, Graeme, ‘Bill and Gwen’, 390/43
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah ‘Lapis Lazuli/Sketches from the Nile’, 388/57
KENNEALLY, Cath, ‘A Rich Full Life’, 389/50,
KNIGHT, Karen, ‘Where am I?’, 390/43
LEIGH KOCH, Jules, ‘Eulogy’, 389/51
NICHOLAS, Louise, ‘Roget’s Thesaurus’, 389/51
OWEN, Jan, ‘String says’, 389/50
OXLEY, Louise, ‘Reply from the Women of Tangier’, 390/41
PAGE, Geoff, ‘Patriotism’, 392/47
REED-GILBERT, Kerry, ‘Wiradjuri country’, 392/47
SHEPHERDSON, Nathan, ‘statements to forget when remembered’, 388/58
SMITH, Melinda, ‘What you get when you search for silence’, 392/46
SYMES, Dominic, ‘Poem for A’, 389/49
THORNE, Tim, ‘Waking’, 390/42
UNIKOWSKI, Isi, ‘Still Life’, 392/48
VAN NEERVEN, Ellen, ‘Chips’, 388/56
WILLIAMS, Jane, ‘On World Heart Day’, 390/44
Reading Australia
NB all the essays published as part of ABR's collaboration with Reading Australia can be read here
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, ‘Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, 391/35
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ALLISON, John, 396/38
APPLEBY, Rosalind, 396/38
ARCHER, Robyn, 396/38
BROOKER, Ben, 396/38
BYRNE, Tim, 396/38
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 396/38
COWLEY, Des, 396/38
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 396/38
DICKSON, Ian, 396/38
FORD, Andrew, 396/38
FRASER, Morag, 396/38
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 396/38
GRYBOWSKI, Tony, 396/38
HALLIWELL, Michael, 396/38
LEVER, Susan, 396/38
MCFARLANE, Brian, 396/38
MENZ, Christopher, 396/38
ROSE, Peter, 396/38
SCHOFIELD, Leo, 396/38
SHMITH, Michael, 396/38
SIMMONDS, Diana, 396/38
SZABO, Zoltan, 396/38
WILLIAMS, Kim , 396/38
WINDSOR, Harry, 396/38
YEOMAN, Will, 396/38
ZWARTZ, Barney, 396/38
Books of the Year
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 397/30
BONGIORNO, Frank, 397/30
BRENNAN, Bernadette, 397/30
BURNS, Shannon, 397/30
DAVIS, Glyn, 397/30
DAY, Gregory, 397/30
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 397/30
EDELE, Mark, 397/30
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 397/30
FRASER, Morag, 397/30
FREEMAN-GREENE, Suzy, 397/30
GILES, Paul, 397/30
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn , 397/30
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 397/30
HAWKE, John, 397/30
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 397/30
HUGHES-D'AETH, Tony, 397/30
HUHRMANN, Andrew, 397/30
JONES, Jill, 397/30
JOSE, Nicholas , 397/30
LAKE, Marilyn, 397/30
LEA, Bronwyn, 397/30
LEY, James, 397/30
MACDONALD, Anna , 397/30
MCCOOEY, David, 397/30
MCNAMARA, James, 397/30
NIALL, Brenda, 397/30
NOSKE, Catherine, 397/30
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 397/30
SHERIDAN, Susan, 397/30
SILCOX, Beejay, 397/30
SULLIVAN, Jane, 397/30
WALTER, James, 397/30
WEBB, Jen, 397/30
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 397/30
WRIGHT, Fiona, 397/30
WYNDHAM, Susan, 397/30
Environment Issue
ADAMS, Michael, 395/42
ATKINSON, Alan, 395/42
BRADLEY, James, 395/42
CLODE, Danielle, 395/42
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie, 395/42
GAYNOR, Andrea, 395/42
HAY, Ashley, 395/42
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 395/42
HUGES-D'AETH, Tony, 395/42
JONES, Philip, 395/42
KARSKENS, Grace, 395/42
KINSELLA, John, 395/42
MAHOOD, Kim, 395/42
SCOTT, Kim, 395/42
TAYLOR, Rebe, 395/42
THOMAS, Martin, 395/42
Index for 2016: Nos 378–387
ABR Index 2016
NB: this index includes only the material published in the print magazine and therefore does not include all the material published by ABR in 2016.
2016 Reviews Index
ABBS, Annabel, The Joyce Girl, Hachette, 387/63, Ann-Marie Priest
ACKLAND, Jenny, The Secret Son, Allen & Unwin, 378/47, Katerina Bryant
ADELAIDE, Debra, (ed.), The Simple Act of Reading, Vintage, 378/67, Gillian Dooley
ADUT, Deng Thiak and Ben McKelvey, Songs of a War Boy: My story, Hachette, 387/58, Dilan Gunawardana
AITKIN, Don, The Canonbury Tales, Danbree Books, 380/59, Carol Middleton
ALBISTON, Jordie, Jack & Mollie (& Her), UQP, 381/50, Geoff Page
AMSTERDAM, Steven, The Easy Way Out, Hachette, 384/47, Fiona Wright
ANANIAN-WELSH, Rebecca, Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch, The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia’s greatest judicial crisis, NewSouth, 386/21, David Rolph
ANDERSON, Deb, Endurance: Australian stories of drought, CSIRO, 380/41, Emily O’Gorman
ARNOTT, Georgina, The Unknown Judith Wright, UWAP, 386/12, Ian Donaldson
ASHBERY, John, Breezeway, Carcanet Press, 378/44, Gig Ryan
ATHERTON, Cassandra, Exhumed, Grand Parade Poets, 380/50, Peter Kenneally
ATTRIDGE, Derek, The Work of Literature, OUP, 378/36, Paul Giles
ATWOOD, Margaret, Hag-seed: The Tempest retold, Penguin, 386/25, Lisa Gorton
BABKENIAN, Vicken and Peter Stanley, Armenia, Australia and the Great War, NewSouth, 384/26, Joy Damousi
BAKER, Jeannine, Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam, NewSouth, 378/48, Susan Sheridan
BAKER, Mark, Phillip Schuler: The remarkable life of one of Australia’s greatest war correspondents, Allen & Unwin, 385/24, Kevin Foster
BARKER, Anthony J. and Michael l. Ondaatje, A Little America in Western Australia: The US naval communication station at North West Cape and the founding of Exmouth, UWAP, 379/57, Seumas Spark
BARNES, Julian, The Noise of Time, Jonathan Cape, 381/55, Andy Lloyd James
BARRON, Stephanie & Sabine Eckmann, New Objectivity: Modern German art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 386/48, Christopher Menz
BARRY, Bernice, Georgiana Molloy: The mind that shines, Picador, 382/30, Danielle Clode
BATE, Jonathan, Ted Hughes: The unauthorised biography, Fourth Estate, 378/8, Michael Hofmann
BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal, translated by Jan Owen, Arc Publications, 378/45, Brian Nelson
BAZZANI, Rozzi, Hector, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 378/51, John Rickard
BEARD, Mary, SPQR :A history of Ancient Rome, Profile, 379/19, Christopher Allen
BEATTY, Paul, The Sellout, Bloomsbury, 387/29, James McNamara
BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine, Carrying the World, Hachette, 385/26, Catherine Noske
BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine, The Hate Race: A memoir, Hachette, 385/26, Catherine Noske
BERNSTEIN, Charles, Pitch of Poetry, University of Chicago Press, 385/60, John Hawke
BEVERIDGE, Judith and Susan Ogle (eds), Falling and Flying: Poems on ageing, Brandl & Schlesinger, 379/24, David McCooey
BIARUJIA, Javant, Spelter to Pewter, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith
BIRCH, Tony, Broken Teeth, Cordite Books, 383/67, Lucas Smith
BIRNS, Nicholas, Contemporary Australian Literature: A world not yet dead, Sydney University Press, 379/34, Susan Lever
BLACKMAN, Barbara, All My Januaries: Pleasures of life and other essays, UQP, 383/74, Carol Middleton
BLAIN, Georgia, Between a Wolf and a Dog, Scribe, 381/29, Jo Case
BLAINEY, Geoffrey, The Story of Australia’s People: The rise and rise of a new Australia, Viking, 387/9, Brian Matthews
BLOCH, Michael, Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British politicians, Little, Brown, 378/57, David Rolph
BLOM, Philipp, Fracture: Life and culture in the West 1918-1938, Atlantic Books, 385/21, Peter Morgan
BLOOM, Harold, The Daemon Knows: Literary greatness and the American sublime, OUP, 380/20, James Ley
BOYD, David R., The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing towards a greener future, ECW Press, 379/47, Ian Lowe
BOYD RIOUX, Anne, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a lady novelist, W. W. Norton & Company Inc. (Wiley), 384/10, Brenda Niall
BRABON, Katherine, The Memory Artist, Allen & Unwin, 383/28, Felicity Plunkett
BRENNAN, Sean, et al, (ed.) Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A vehicle for change and empowerment, Federation Press, 383/72, Richard Martin
BRIGGS, Rachel, Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith
BROOKS, David, Napoleon’s Roads, UQP, 379/38, Jane Sullivan
BROPHY, Kevin, and Jordie Albiston (eds), Prayers of a secular world, Inkerman & Blunt, 378/67, Peter Kenneally
BROWN, James, Firing Line: Australia’s path to war (Quarterly Essay 62), Black Inc, 381/14, Lucas Grainger-Brown
BROWNSTEIN, Carrie, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Virago, 378/42, Anwen Crawford
BRUMBY, John, The Long Haul: Lessons from public life, MUP, 378/13, John Byron
BRYSON, Fran, In Brazil: Encountering festivals, gods, and heroes in one of the world’s most seductive nations, Scribe, 380/12, Kevin Rabalais
BUTLER, Mark, Advanced Australia: The politics of ageing, MUP, 382/58, Renata Singer
BYRSKI, Liz, In Love and War: Nursing heroes, Fremantle Press, 378/49, Carol Middleton
CAHILL, Michelle, Letter to Pessoa & Other Short Fictions, Giramondo, 387/31, Fiona Hile
CANNANE, Steve, Fair Game: The incredible untold history of Scientology in Australia, ABC Books, 387/47, Fiona Gruber
CARLIN, David and Francesca Rendle-Short (eds.), The Near and the Far: New stories from the Asia-Pacific region, Scribe, 386/24, Sara Savage
CARMODY, Isobelle, The Red Queen, Viking, 379/47, Benjamin Chandler
CARMODY, Sam, The Windy Season, Allen & Unwin, 386/65, Alex Cothren
CARNEY, Shaun, Press Escape, MUP, 387/14, Michael McGirr
CAVANAGH, David, Good Night and Good Riddance: How thirty-five years of John Peel helped to shape modern life, Faber, 379/43, Fiona Hile
CAY JOHNSTON, David, The Making of Donald Trump, Hardie Grant, 385/14, David Smith
CHABON, Michael, Moonglow, Fourth Estate, 387/32, Kevin Rabalais
CHAN, Julius, Playing the Game, UQP, 381/43, Lyndon Megarrity
CHANDLER, Jo, (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2016, NewSouth, 387/52, Ian Gibbins
CLARE, Ruth, Enemy: A daughter’s story of how her father brought the Vietnam War home, Viking, 381/41, Carol Middleton
CLARK, Anna, Private Lives, Public History, MUP, 380/27, Billy Griffiths
COATNEY, Caryn, John Curtin: How he won over the media, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 386/54, Paul Strangio
COETZEE, J.M., The Schooldays of Jesus, Text, 385/29, Sue Kossew
COLE, Teju, Known and Strange Things, Allen & Unwin, 386/56, Sujatha Fernandes
COLMAN, James, The House that Jack Built: Jack Mundey, green bans hero, NewSouth, 385/11, Dennis Altman
COMPTON, Jennifer, Now You Shall Know, Five Islands Press, 379/54, Rose Lucas
COOK, Kenneth, Fear is the Rider, Text, 379/37, Andrew Nette
COSTELLO, Elvis, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Viking, 378/41, Doug Wallen
COX, Jack, Dodge Rose, Text, 381/28, Luke Horton
CRAWFORD, Jen, Koel, Cordite Books, 383/67, Lucas Smith
CRITCHLEY, Simon, On Bowie, Serpent’s Tail, 383/40, Doug Wallen
DAMOUSI, Joy, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia’s Greek immigrants after World War II and the Greek civil war, Cambridge University Press, 382/16, Alistair Thomson
DAS, Satyajit, A Banquet of Consequences: Have we consumed our own future?, Viking, 381/39, Reuben Finighan
DAUGHERTY, Tracy, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion, St Martin’s Press, 383/58, Kevin Rabalais
DAVIDOW, Shelley, Whisperings in the Blood: A memoir, UQP, 381/57, Francesca Sasnaitis
DAVIS, Megan & Marcia Langton (eds.), It’s Our Country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, MUP, 386/16, Kevin Bell
DAVISON, Graeme, City Dreamers: The urban imagination in Australia, NewSouth, 386/57, Brian Matthews
DEANE, Joel, Year of the Wasp, Hunter, 387/57, Nathanael Pree
DE LILLO, Don, Zero K, Picador, 382/22, James Ley
DE MOORE, Greg and Ann Westmore, Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bi-polar disorder, Allen & Unwin, 386/66, James Dunk
DE SOUZA, Hebe, Black British: A novel, Ventura Press, 386/67, Sonia Nair
DILLARD, Annie, The Abundance, Canongate, 384/66, Kevin Rabalais
DONVAN, John and Caren Zucker, In a Different Key: The story of autism, Allen Lane, 382/43, Nick Haslam
DOWN, Jennifer, Our Magic Hour, Text, 380/39, Gretchen Shirm
DRABBLE, Margaret, The Dark Flood Rises, Text, 387/30, Jane Sullivan
DRUMMOND, Sarah, The Sound, Fremantle Press, 384/68, Piri Eddy
DUSINBERRE, Edward, Beethoven for a Later Age: The journey of a string quartet, Faber, 383/47, Paul Kildea
DYER, David, The Midnight Watch, Hamish Hamilton, 381/26, Felicity Plunkett
EAGAR, Kirsty, Summer Skin, Allen & Unwin, 382/62, Ruth Starke
EAGLETON, Terry, Culture, Yale University Press, 385/49, Andrew Fuhrmann
EARLS, Nick, The Wisdom Tree: Five novellas, Inkerman & Blunt, 384/52Anthony Lynch
EGGINTON, William, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world, Bloomsbury, 386/61, Gabriel Garcia Ochoa
ELKIN, Lauren, Flaneuse: Women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, Chatto & Windus, 386/60, Anna MacDonald
ELLIOTT, Tim, Farewell to the Father, Picador, 384/22, Kári Gíslason
ELLIS, Bob, compiled by Anne Brooksbank, Bob Ellis: In his own words, Black Inc., 386/63, Jan McGuinness
ENFIELD, N.J., The Utility of Meaning: What words mean and why, OUP, 378/29, Kate Burridge
ERDRICH, Louise, LaRose, Corsair, 383/29, Sarah Myles
ERRINGTON, Wayne and Peter van Onselen, Battleground: Why the Liberal Party shirtfronted Tony Abbott, MUP, 379/16, Frank Bongiorno
FALKINER, Suzanne, Mick: A life of Randolph Stow, UWAP, 379/13, Kerryn Goldsworthy
FARRELL, Fiona, The Skinny Louie Book, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais
FERGUSON, Sarah with Patricia Drum, The Killing Season Uncut, MUP, 383/12, Neal Blewett
FISCHER, Tim, Maestro John Monash: Australia’s greatest citizen general, Monash University Publishing, 378/58, John Ramsland
FISH, Stanley, Think Again: Contrarian reflections on life, culture, politics, religion, law, and education, Princeton University Press, 379/15, Glyn Davis
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, On Stalin’s Team: The years of living dangerously in Soviet politics, MUP, 380/9, Mark Edele
FOULCHER, John, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 382/55, Peter Kenneally
FRAILLON, Zana, The Bone Sparrow, Hachette, 387/63, Margaret Robson Kett
FRAME, Tom (ed.), Anzac Day Then and Now, UNSW Press, 382/21, Seumas Spark
FRAME, Tom (ed.), Moral Injury: Unseen wounds in an Age of Barbarism, UNSW Press, 378/54, Damian Cox
FREEBURY, Jane, Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer, Currency Press, 382/46, Jake Wilson
FREEMAN, Damien & Shireen Morris (eds.), The Forgotten People: Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples, MUP, 386/16, Kevin Bell
FRENCH, Jackie and Bruce Whatley, Cyclone, Scholastic, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
FREW, Peggy, Hope Farm, Scribe, 378/27, Patrick Allington
GAME, David, D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the edge of empire, Routledge, 382/27, Paul Giles
GARDNER, Scot, The Way We Roll, Allen & Unwin, 382/62, Ruth Starke
GARRETT, Peter, Big Blue Sky: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 378/61, Dennis Altman
GARNER, Helen, Everywhere I Look, Text, 381/19, Jill Jones
GARNETT, Tony, The Day the Music Died, Constable, 387/53, Michael Shmith
GEE, Maurice, The Burning Boy, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais
GERGES, Fawaz A., Isis: A history, Princeton University Press, 387/15, Colin Wight
GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich, Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold, Wakefield Press, 385/15, Christopher Menz
GHOSH, Ronojoy, No Place Like Home, Random House, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
GILDEA, Robert, Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance, Harvard University Press, 382/54, Peter Monteath
GILLIVER, Peter, The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, OUP, 387/49, Bruce Moore
GIROUD, Vincent, Nicolas Nabokov: A life in freedom and music, OUP, 380/17, Michael Morley
GLEASON, Toby (ed.), Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason interviews, Yale University Press, 386/30, Des Cowley
GLEESON, Madeline, Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru, NewSouth, 383/9, Peter Mares
GODWIN, Jane and Davina Bell, illus. by Freya Blackwood, Hattie Helps Out, Allen & Unwin, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
GOETZMANN, William N., Money Changes Everything: How finance made civilisation possible, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 384/27, Peter Acton
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, The Rise of the Machines and other Love Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 379/55, Philip Harvey
GOPNIK, Alison, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children, Bodley Head, 387/51, Tim Smartt
GRACE, Patricia, Potiki, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais
GRAYLING, A.C., The Challenge of Things: Thinking through troubled times, Bloomsbury, 380/53, Simon Caterson
GREDER, Armin, Australia to Z, Allen & Unwin, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
GREENWELL, Garth, What Belongs to You, Picador, 382/50, Dion Kagan
GREHAN, Helena and Edward Scheer, William Yang: Stories of love and death, NewSouth, 381/57, Jay Daniel Thompson
GRESTE, Juris, et al., Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle, Viking, 386/55, Kate Ryan
GRIFFITHS, Tom, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft, Black Inc, 383/41, Mark McKenna
GWYNNE, Joel (ed.), Transgressions in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, sex and the deviant body, Columbia University Press, 386/29, Dion Kagan
HACKING, Juliet, Lives of the Great Photographers, Thames & Hudson, 379/44, Helen Ennis
HAIGH, Gideon, Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the shot that changed cricket, Hamish Hamilton, 387/62, Bernard Whimpress
HALLIDAY, Claire, Things my Mother Never Taught Me, Echo Publishing, 382/61, Daniel Juckes
HALLORAN, Jacinta, The Science of Appearances, Scribe, 386/27, Fiona Wright
HAMMER, Langdon, James Merrill: Life and art, Knopf, 379/60, Ian Dickson
HANCOCK, Ian, Tom Hughes QC: A cab on the rank, Federation Press, 383/59, Peter Heerey
HARPER, Jane, The Dry, Pan Macmillan, 382/51, Chris Flynn
HARRIS, James A., Hume: An intellectual biography, Cambridge University Press, 385/55, Janna Thompson
HARRISON, Andrew, The Life of D.H. Lawrence, Wiley-Blackwell, 387/56, Shannon Burns
HASKELL, Dennis, Ahead of Us, Fremantle Press, 382/55, Peter Kenneally
HATHORN, Libby illus. by Phil Lesnie, A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy, Lothian, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
HAZAREESINGH, Sudhir, How the French Think: An affectionate portrait of an intellectual people, Allen Lane, 380/58, Colin Nettelbeck
HAZZARD, Shirley, We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected essays, Columbia University Press, 381/12, Brian Matthews
HEATHCOTE, Christopher, Inside the Art Market: Australia’s galleries: A history 1956-1976, Thames & Hudson, 386/49, Francesca Sasnaitis
HENDERSON, Gerard, Santamaria: A most unusual man, Miegunyah, 378/18, Michael McGirr
HERBORN, Daniel, You’re the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About, HarperCollins, 378/63, Laura Elvery
HIGHLEY, Kerry, Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio, Monash University Publishing, 379/59, Paul Morgan
HILLS, Rachel, The Sex Myth: The gap between our fantasies and reality, Viking, 378/55, Dion Kagan
HILMES, Oliver, tr. Stewart Spencer, Franz Liszt: Musician, superstar, celebrity, Yale University Press, 387/46, David Larkin
HOLLAND, Patrick, One, Transit Lounge, 382/58, Dean Biron
HUGHES, John, Asylum, UWAP, 382/23, Lucas Smith
JACOBSON, Howard, Shylock is My Name, Hogarth Shakespeare, 384/50, Andrea Goldsmith
JACOBSON, Megan, Yellow, Penguin, 382/62, Ruth Starke
JAMES, Clive, Play All: A binge-watcher’s notebook, Yale University Press, 386/38, Peter Goldsworthy
JAMES, John Stanley, The Vagabond Papers, Monash University Publishing, 384/64, John Arnold
JENNINGS, Rebecca, Unnamed Desires: A Sydney lesbian history, Monash University Publishing, 378/56, Sylvia Martin
JONES, Jill, Breaking the Days, Whitmore Press, 380/50, Peter Kenneally
JONES, Lloyd, The Book of Fame, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais
JOOSTEN, Melanie, A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age, Scribe, 384/65, Patrick Allington
JORDAN, Toni, Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, Text, 382/27, Josephine Taylor
JOSE, Jane, Places Women Make: Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities, Wakefield Press, 381/57, Gillian Dooley
KAMINSKY, Leah, The Waiting Room, Vintage, 378/24, Naama Amram
KANAKE, Sarah, Sing Fox to Me, Affirm Press, 380/52, Alex Cothren
KAPLAN, James, Sinatra: The chairman, Sphere, 378/39, Michael Shmith
KAVAN, Anna, Ice, Penguin, 386/23, Kevin Rabalais
KEALING, Bob, Life of the Party: How the remarkable Brownie Wise built and lost a Tupperware party empire, Affirm Press, 384/29, Rachel Fuller
KENT, Hannah, The Good People, Picador, 385/31, Amy Baillieu
KIEZA, Grantlee, Monash: The soldier who shaped Australia, ABC Books, 378/58, John Ramsland
KNEEN, Krissy, Eating My Grandmother: A grief cycle, UQP, 379/54, Rose Lucas
KNIGHT, Kankawa Nagarra Olive, The Bauhinia Tree: The life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight, UWAP, 379/63, Josephine Taylor
KNOX, Malcolm, The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket, Viking, 378/66, Bernard Whimpress
KOH, Julie, Portable Curiosities, UQP, 383/44, Cassandra Atherton
LADD, Mike, Invisible Mending, Wakefield Press, 387/57, Nathanael Pree
LAING, Olivia, Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone, Canongate, 384/71, Alexandra Mathew
LAMBERT, Andrew, Crusoe’s Island: Curious history of pirates, castaways and madness, Faber, 387/35, Danielle Clode
LANE, Elizabeth et.al (eds) Outback Penguin: Richard Lane’s Barwell diaries, The Lane Press, 381/13, Suzanne Falkiner
LANGFORD, Martin, Ground, Puncher & Wattman, 379/54, Rose Lucas
LAWRENCE, Anthony, Headwaters, Pitt Street Poetry, 384/68, Dennis Haskell
LEADER, Zachary (ed.), On Life-Writing, OUP, 380/22, Richard Freadman
LEE, Micheline, The Healing Party, Black Inc, 383/64, Naama Amram
LEIGH, Julia, Avalanche: A love story, Hamish Hamilton, 383/74, Rose Lucas
LERNER, Ben, The Hatred of Poetry, Text, 383/69, David McCooey
LEVY, Ariel (ed.), The Best American Essays 2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 379/22, James McNamara
LEVY, Emanuel, Gay Directors, Gay Films?Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Columbia University Press, 381/31, Dion Kagan
LINDSEY, Keira, The Convict’s Daughter, Allen & Unwin, 382/61, Sophia Barnes
LOHREY, Amanda (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2015, Black Inc., 378/16, Josephine Taylor
LOOSLEY, Stephen, Machine Rules: A political primer, MUP, 379/58, Joel Deane
LOUNSBURY, Lynnette, We Ate the Road Like Vultures, Inkerman & Blunt, 381/27, Alex Cothren
LOVITT, Zane, Black Teeth, Text, 383/64, Dean Biron
LOWE, Ian, The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia, UQP, 383/43, Peter Christoff
MCCAMISH, Thornton, Our Man Elsewhere: In search of Alan Moorehead, Black Inc., 384/11, Robin Gerster
MCDONNELL, Michael A., Masters of Empire, 381/42, Glenn Moore
MCFARLANE, Fiona, The High Places, Hamish Hamilton, 378/25, Sarah Holland-Batt
MCLEAN, Ian, Rattling Spears: A history of Australian Indigenous art, NewSouth, 386/50, Billy Griffiths
MCNAB, Duncan, Waterfront: Graft, corruption and violence: Australia’s crime frontier from 1788 to now, Hachette, 381/44, Simon Caterson
MCPHEE, Peter, Liberty or Death: The French revolution, Yale University Press (Footprint), 384/23, Robert Aldrich
MACDONALD, Helen, H is for Hawk, Vintage, 378/67, Daniel Juckes
MACRIS, Anthony, Inexperience and Other Stories, UWAP, 387/60, Chris Flynn
MAGEE, Bryan, Ultimate Questions, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 383/75, Craig Taylor
MAGUIRE, Emily, An Isolated Incident, Picador, 380/59, Jay Daniel Thompson
MAHOOD, Kim, Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories, Scribe, 384/21, Michael Winkler
MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Fox Petition, Giramondo, 380/50, Peter Kenneally
MARCHETTA, Melina, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil, Viking, 387/61, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
MARES, Peter, Not Quite Australian: How temporary migration is changing the nation, Text, 386/22, Maria O’Sullivan
MARTIN, Sylvia, Ink in Her Veins: The troubled life of Aileen Palmer, UWAP, 382/29, Susan Lever
MARTIN, Toby, Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country music in Australia since the 1920s, Lyrebird Press, 379/63, Doug Wallen
MAYER, Jane, Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical Right, Scribe, 385/13, James McNamara
MEGALOGENIS, George, Australia’s Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future, Hamish Hamilton, 381/21, Mark Triffitt
MEGALOGENIS, George, Balancing Act: Australia between recession and renewal (Quarterly Essay 61), Black Inc., 381/21, Mark Triffitt
MEKAS, Jonas, Movie Journal: The rise of New American Cinema 1959-1971, Columbia University Press (Footprint), 384/55, Philippa Hawker
MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona, The Long Run, Affirm, 380/21, Gillian Dooley
MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, Leaving Elvis and Other Stories, UWAP, 379/35, Francesca Sasnaitis
MILLER, Alex, The Simplest Words: A storyteller’s journey, Allen & Unwin, 379/62, Brenda Walker
MILLER, Joseph C.(ed.), The Princeton companion to Atlantic history, Princeton University Press, 380/54, Norman Etherington
MITCHELL, Adrian, The Profilist: The notebooks of Ethan Dibble, Wakefield Press, 378/47, James Dunk
MODIANO, Patrick, translated by Mark Polizzotti, After the Circus, Yale, 381/25 Colin Nettelbeck
MOHAMAD, Goenawan, translated by Jennifer Lindsay, In Other Words: Forty years of essays, NewSouth, 384/67, Satendra Nandan
MOLLOY, Tim, Mr Unpronouceable and the Infinity of Nightmares, Milk Shadow Books, 384/71, Max Sipowicz
MOORE, Bruce, (ed.), The Australian National Dictionary, Second Edition, OUP, 385/8, Kate Burridge
MORDDEN, Ethan, On Sondheim: An opinionated guide, OUP, 381/33, Ian Dickson
MORRISON, Zoe, Music and Freedom, Vintage Books, 383/48, Marie O’Rourke
MURPHY, John, Evatt: A life, NewSouth, 386/8, Neal Blewett
NASHER, Claire, Lake, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith
NICHOLAS, Louise, The List of Last Remaining, Five Islands Press, 385/59, Philip Harvey
NICHOLL, Freda Marnie, The Amazing Mrs Livesey, Allen & Unwin, 382/61, Dina Ross
NIKIFORUK, Andrew, Slick Water: Fracking and one insider’s stand against the world’s most powerful industry, Greystone Books, 379/46, Ruth A. Morgan
NOGRADY, Bianca, (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing, NewSouth, 378/17, Danielle Clode
O’BRIEN, Edna, The Little Red Chairs, Allen & Unwin, 379/36, Fiona Gruber
O’BRIEN, Kerry, Keating, Allen & Unwin, 378/11, James Walter
O’FLYNN, Mark, The Last Days of Ava Langdon, UQP, 383/31, Suzanne Falkiner
O’NEILL, Ryan, Their Brilliant Careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers, Black Inc, 383/43, David Thomas Henry Wright
OSBORNE, Don, Pentridge: Behind the bluestone walls, Echo Publishing, 380/57, David Nichols
PACAT, C.S., Kings Rising, Viking, 382/62, Crusader Hillis
PAGE, Geoff, Gods and Uncles, Pitt Street Poetry, 384/69, Dennis Haskell
PAGE, Tony, Dawn the Proof, Hybird Publishers, 384/68, Dennis Haskell
PALMER, Sheridan, Hegel’s Owl: The life of Bernard Smith, Power Publications, 383/20, Ian Donaldson
PANG, Alvin and Ravi Shankar, Union: 15 years of Drunken Boat, 50 years of writing from Singapore, Ethos Books and Drunken Boat, 379/33, Sara Savage
PATCHETT, Ann, Commonwealth, HarperCollins, 385/32, Francesca Sasnaitis
PATRICK, Aaron, Credlin & Co: How the Abbott government destroyed itself, Black Inc., 382/8, Lucas Grainger-Brown
PIEPER, Liam, The Toymaker, Hamish Hamilton, 383/64, Laurie Steed
PIERCE, Jessica, Run, Spot, Run: The ethics of keeping pets, University of Chicago Press, 385/57, Simon Coghlan
PIERRE, DBC, Release the Bats: Writing your way out of it, Allen & Unwin, 385/27, Jen Webb
PIKETTY, Thomas, Chronicles on Our Troubled Times, Viking, 383/16, Simon Tormey
PLAMPER, Jan, The History of Emotions: An introduction, OUP, 380/55, Stephanie Trigg
PLANTE, David, Worlds Apart: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 378/60, Ian Britain
PLOZZA, Shivaun, Frankie, Penguin, 382/63, Ruth Starke
POPE, Alexander ed. by Tom Jones, An Essay on Man, Princeton University Press, 387/59, Robert Phiddian
PORTER, Max, Grief is the thing with feathers, Faber, 379/34, Daniel Juckes
PORTER, Peter, Chorale at the Crossing, Picador, 381/9, Peter Goldsworthy
PRETTY, Ron, Creating Poetry, Pitt Street Poetry, 379/53, Judith Beveridge
PROULX, Annie, Barkskins, Fourth Estate, 383/26, James Bradley
RABIN, Sean, Wood Green, Giramondo, 386/67, Dilan Gunawardana
RACE, Hugo, Road Series, Transit Lounge, 382/42, Doug Wallen
RAJA, Christopher, The Burning Elephant, Giramondo, 381/58, Fiona Dorrell
REED, Marcia (ed.), The Edible Monument: The art of food for festivals, Getty Research Institute, 380/30, Christopher Menz
REYNOLDS, Henry, Unnecessary Wars, NewSouth, 382/19, Peter Stanley
RID, Thomas, Rise of the Machines: The lost history of cybernetics, Scribe, 385/63, Gary N. Lines
RIEFF, David, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical memory and its ironies, Yale, 382/11, Andrea Goldsmith
ROBERTS, Gregory David, The Mountain Shadow, Picador, 378/28, Brigid Magner
ROBERTS, Tom D.C., Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the birth of a dynasty, UQP, 378/50, Paul Morgan
ROBINSON, Suzanne (ed.), Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Lyrebird Press, 383/73, John Arnold
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, Quicksilver, Text, 387/39, Andrew Fuhrmann
ROWE, Josephine, A Loving, Faithful Animal, UQP, 381/56, Kate Holden
ROYAL, Autumn, She Woke & Rose, Cordite Books, 383/66, Lucas Smith
RYAN, Brendan, Small Town Standing, Hunter Poets, 382/55, Peter Kenneally
SALOM, Philip, Waiting, Puncher & Wattman, 380/38, Michael McGirr
SANCHEZ-ANDRADE, Cristina Tr. by Samuel Rutter, The Winterlings, Scribe, 387/63, Gabriel Garcia Ochoa
SANDERSON, Rena, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926—1929, Cambridge University Press, 383/39, James McNamara
SANDS, Philippe, East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 385/19, Neil Kaplan
SANT, Andrew, How to Proceed: Essays, Puncher & Wattmann, 385/59, Philip Harvey
SANTAGATA, Marco, tr. by Richard Dixon, Dante: The story of his life, Harvard University Press, 381/20, Diana Glenn
SAVAGE, Jon, 1966: The year the decade exploded, Faber, 385/44, Anwen Crawford
SAVAGE, Jon, England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and punk rock, Faber, 385/44, Anwen Crawford
SAVANADASA, Rajith, Ruins, Hachette, 385/34, Claudia Hyles
SAVVA, Niki, The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government, Scribe, 382/8, Lucas Grainger-Brown
SCHROEDER RODRIGUEZ, Paul A. Latin American Cinema: A comparative history, University of California Press, 387/43, Sarah McDonald
SCHWARTZ, Baba, The May Beetles: My first twenty years, Black Inc., 382/18, Gillian Dooley
SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Simon, The Romanovs: 1613-1918, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 384/30, Mark Edele
SERONG, Jock, The Rules of Backyard Cricket, Text, 385/33, Craig Billingham
SETH, Vikram, Collected Poems, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 383/68, Stephen Edgar
SHERIDAN, Susan, The Fiction of Thea Astley, Cambria Press, 387/55, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SIMMS, Brendan, Britain’s Europe: A thousand years of conflict and cooperation, Allen Lane, 384/8, Glyn Davis
SIMPSON, Inga, Where the Trees Were, Hachette, 380/40, Rhyll McMaster
SINGER, Peter, Ethics in the Real World: 86 brief essays on things that matter, Text, 386/64, Ben Brooker
SISMAN, Adam, John Le Carre: The biography, Bloomsbury, 380/14, Barney Zwartz
SMEE, Sebastian, The Art of Rivalry: Four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art, Text, 386/40, Miriam Cosic
SMITH, Dominic, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Allen & Unwin, 382/24, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SNELL, Danny, Seagull, Working Title Press, 381/58, Margaret Robson Kett
SOLKIN, David H. Art in Britain 1660-1815, Yale University Press (Footprint), 384/63, Patrick McCaughey
SOMETIMES, Alicia and Nicole Hayes (eds.), From the Outer: Footy like you’ve never heard it, Black Inc., 382/60, Patrick Allington
SPARGO-RYAN, Anna, The Paper House, Picador, 384/55, Thuy On
STANLEY, Jason, How Propaganda Works, Princeton University Press, 380/52, Adrian Walsh
STEAD, C.K., The Singing Whakapapa, Penguin, 386/24, Kevin Rabalais
STRANGIO, Paul, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, Settling the Office: The Australian prime ministership from Federation to Reconstruction, Miegunyah Press, 381/23, Stephen Mills
STRAW, Leigh, The Worst Woman in History: The life and crimes of Kate Leigh, NewSouth, 384/71, Rachel Fuller
STREHLOW, T.G.H., Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Giramondo, 378/64, Simon Caterson
SULLIVAN, Rosemary, Stalin’s Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Fourth Estate, 382/14, Sheila Fitzgerald
SULWAY, Nike, Dying in the First Person, Transit Lounge384/51, Shannon Burns
TAN, Shaun, The Singing Bones, Allen & Unwin, 378/61, Margaret Robson Kett
TANNER, Lindsay, Comfort Zone, Scribe, 382/49, Joel Deane
TAYLOR, Cory, Dying: A memoir, Text, 382/41, Rachel Robertson
TEMPEST, Kate, The Bricks That Built the Houses, Bloomsbury, 384/69, Barnaby Smith
TESARSCH, John, The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman, Affirm Press, 378/47, Craig Billingham
THORNELL, Kristel, On the Blue Train, Allen & Unwin, 386/67, Francesca Sasnaitis
TODES, Daniel P., Ivan Pavlov: A Russian life in science, OUP, 387/50, Nick Haslam
TOMOFF, Kiril, Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet music and imperial competition during the early Cold War,1945–1958,Cornell University Press 386/33, Sheila Fitzpatrick
ULLRICH, Volker, translated by Jefferson Chase, Hitler: A biography, Volume I: Ascent, 1889-1939, Bodley Head, 385/23, Miriam Cosic
VADJA, Frank, Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and after, Monash University Publishing, 385/62, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
VAN NEERVEN, Ellen, Comfort Food, UQP, 387/57, Nathanael Pree
VAN SCHILT, Stephanie, Elena Savage, and Gillian Terzis, The Lifted Brow: No.28, The Lifted Brow, 379/63, Joseph Rubbo
VAN VELZEN, Marianne,Call of the Outback: The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer, Allen & Unwin, 380/13, Susan Sheridan
VARGA, Susan, Rupture: Poems 2012-2015, UWA Publishing, 385/60, Philip Harvey
VICKERS, Brian, The One King Lear, Harvard University Press, 385/42, David McInnis
WARD, Charlie, A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji struggle after the walk-off, Monash University Publishing, 386/13, Timothy Neale
WAXMAN, Dov, Trouble in the Tribe, Princeton University Press (Footprint), 383/17, Ilana Snyder
WEBSTER, Amanda, A Tear in the Soul, NewSouth, 387/54, Rachel Robertson
WESLEY, Michael, Restless Continent: Wealth, rivalry and Asia’s new geopolitics, Black Inc., 378/53, Finian Cullity
WEYLAND, Marcel, The Boy on the Tricycle, Brandl & Schlesinger, 382/18, Gillian Dooley
WHEELER, Belinda, (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott, Camden House, 384/19, Bernadette Brennan
WILDING, Michael, Growing Wild, Arcadia, 383/71, Brian Matthews
WILLIAMS, Robyn, In Love with Betty the Crow: The first 40 years of ABC RN’s The Science Show, ABC Books, 381/38, Ashley Hay
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, The Best Australian Essays 2015, Black Inc., 379/22, James McNamara
WILSON, A.N., The Book of the People: How to read the Bible, Atlantic (Allen & Unwin), 383/74, Simon Caterson
WILSON, A.N., Resolution, Atlantic Books, 386/64, Ann-Marie Priest
WILSON, Ashleigh, Brett Whiteley: Art, life and the other thing, Text, 384/13, Simon Caterson
WILSON, Dominique, That Devil’s Madness, Transit Lounge, 380/59, Marie O’Rourke
WILSON, Jake, Mad Dog Morgan, Australian Screen Classics, 378/40 Brian McFarlane
WILSON, Peter H. The Holy Roman Empire: A thousand years of Europe’s history, Allen Lane, 387/33, Christopher Allen
WINCH, Tara June, After the Carnage, UQP, 384/49, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WINTON, Tim, The Boy Behind the Curtain, Hamish Hamilton, 387/11, Peter Craven
WOOD, Charlotte, The Writer’s Room: Conversations about writing, Allen & Unwin, 385/27, Jen Webb
WOOLETT, Elizabeth, The Love of a Bad Man, Scribe, 386/50, Dina Ross
WOTHERSPOON, Garry, Gay Sydney: A history, NewSouth, 381/45, Robert Reynolds
WRIGHT, Fiona, Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on hunger, Giramondo, 378/65, Emily Laidlaw
WRIGHT, Michelle, Fine, Allen & Unwin, 385/59, Alice Bishop
WULF, Andrea, The Invention of Natures: The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science, John Murray, 379/18, Paul Giles
YEKELCHYK, Serhy, The Conflict in Ukraine: What everyone needs to know, OUP, 381/40,
Mark Edele
ZABLE, Arnold, The Fighter, Text, 382/57, Michael McGirr
2016 Features Index
ABR ARTS
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 381/30
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Romeo and Juliet, 383/46
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Love and Friendship, 384/54
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Carol, 379/39
McFARLANE, Brian, The Light Between Oceans, 387/42
McFARLANE, Brian, Sunset Song, 385/41
NETTE, Andrew, Goldstone, 383/45
ROSE, Peter, The Lady in the Van, 380/34
WILKINS, Kim, The Daughter, 380/36
WILSON, Jake, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, 386/28
ZWARTZ, Barney, Spotlight, 379/41
FRASER, Morag, Missa Solemnis, 385/46
HALLIWELL, Michael, Sydney Opera House – The Opera (The Eighth Wonder), 387/44
ROSE, Peter, Tristan und Isolde, 386/31
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Dark Mofo, 383/49
MENZ, Christopher, Tom Roberts, 378/37
ROBSON KETT, Margaret, Making the Australian Quilt, 384/61
WILSON, Jake, The Kettering Incident, 385/43
BROOKER, Ben, Things I Know to Be True, 382/44
BYRNE, Tim, Joy Ride, 379/40
BYRNE, Tim, Picnic at Hanging Rock, 380/37
DICKSON, Ian, Twelfth Night, 384/60
FUHRMANN, Andrew, The Mill on the Floss, 384/62
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Romeo and Juliet, 381/32
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Shit, 382/39
GOLVAN, Colin, Arcadia, 379/42
HALLIWELL, Michael, Cloudstreet, 382/47
McFARLANE, Brian, Othello, 383/51
ROSE, Peter, King Lear, 378/31
ROSE, Jeremy, Iron in the Blood: A musical adaptation of Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore, ABC Classics, 395/44, Geoff Page
PRIZES
ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLIST
LAWRENCE, Anthony, 'Ash', 383/23
ROWE, Josephine, 'Glisk', 383/32
TEL, Jonathan, 'The Water Calligrapher’s Women', 383/61
CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE 2016
WINKLER, Michael, ‘The Great Red Whale’, 382/31
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE
DISNEY, Dan, ‘…a passing shower?’, 379/30
ELVEY, Anne, ‘Prelude to a Voice’, 379/32
GLUSKIN STONESTREET, Lisa, ‘Rage to order’, 379/29
JOY, Amanda, ‘Tailings’, 379/26
THOMSON, Campbell, ‘Lament for ‘Cape’ Kennedy’, 379/27
COMMENTARY
FALKINER, Suzanne, ‘Randolph Stow’s Harwich’, 378/20
GENONI, Paul, ‘Hydra as Intimate Theatre’ 387/36
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘The God of Cheaper Prices’, 386/19
JOSE, Nicholas, ‘Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett’, 385/36
MOORE, Bruce, The new Australian National Dictionary, 383/65
NETTELBECK, Colin, ‘Letter from Paris’, 382/52
RABALAIS, Kevin, ‘Letter from New Orleans’, 378/33
RICKARD, John, ‘On John Foster’, 381/47
ROLPH, David, ‘The Debate over 18C’, 385/16
ROSE, Peter, ABR in the United States, 386/34
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Letter from America’, 384/15
FELLOWSHIPS
AIKEN, Michael, ‘Satan Repentant’, ABR Laureate’s Fellowship, 383/52
ATKINSON, Alan, ‘How Do We Live With Ourselves? The Australian national conscience’, ABR RAFT Fellowship, 384/34
INTERVIEWS
CRITIC OF THE MONTH
McNAMARA, James, 385/64
FUTURE TENSE
HAMILTON, Debi, 382/64
MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, 378/46
GREEN ROOM
SHMITH, Michael with Brett Dean, ‘To set or not to set’, 384/57
OPEN PAGE
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 383/76
JORDAN, Toni, 381/60
JUCHAU, Mireille, 378/68
MEGALOGENIS, George, 380/60
MODJESKA, Drusilla, 379/64
SINGER, Peter, 387/64
WRIGHT, Fiona, 384/72
POET OF THE MONTH
ALBISTON, Jordie, 381/49
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 385/58
JONES, Jill, 382/56
MacCARTER, Kent, 379/56
MANHIRE, Bill, 386/68
PAGE, Geoff, 384/70
STAGE DOOR
SHMITH, Michael, ‘Bread and Circuses: Leo Schofield speaks to Michael Shmith about his illustrious career as “Australia’s Diaghilev”’, 380/31
POETRY
POEMS
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The Grey Parrot’, 386/20
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Home’, 386/20
COOKE, Stuart, ‘Francis Bacon Created Australian Literature’, 385/47
HAWKE, John, ‘Zero Degrees’, 386/41
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘The Changing Room’ and ‘The Worst of It’, 385/18
JONES, Jill, ‘Alarms’, 385/30
KINSELLA, John, ‘The Sizzler at York Agricultural Show’, 387/34
LAUGHTON, Verity, ‘Kangarilla, Summer, 2016’, 380/26
LE PLASTRIER, Jacinta, ‘Neuroward2East’, 378/30
McCOOEY, David, ‘Mick and Bianca Jagger, Newlyweds’, 382/55
MALING, Caitlin, ‘Deep Knowledge’, 387/16
MANHIRE, Bill, ‘Indexing Emily’, 384/24
OLDS, Sharon, ‘Woodwind Ode’, 382/26
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Smartraveller’, 384/32
TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘Déjà vu’, 378/14
ZIGURAS, Jakob, ‘Excerpt from “Doors, Stairwells, Courtyards”’, 380/46
STATES OF POETRY
ABBS, Carolyn, ‘Surely Someone’, 380/48
ANDERSON, Susie, ‘time conquers all’, 381/52
BOLTON, Ken, ‘Salute’, 379/52
BROWN, Pam, ‘Ascriptions’, 381/53
COLEMAN, Aidan, ‘Secondary’, 379/50
DINIC, Jelena, ‘The Silence of Siskins’, 379/50
FITCH, Toby, ‘Democrazy’, 381/51
GROOM, Kia, ‘Alice at Last’, 380/48
JONES, Jill, ‘Bent’, 379/51
KERSHAW, Graham, ‘Perenjori Morning’, 380/49
LLEWELLYN, Kate, ‘Oxytocin’, 379/51
MALOUF, David, ‘Late Poem’, 381/16
MALOUF, David, ‘Pyrra’, 381/16
MALOUF, David, ‘Visitation on Myrtle Street’, 381/17
MIDDLETON, Kate, ‘Daybreak’, 381/52
PAPERTALK-GREEN, Charmaine, ‘Yamatji Culture’, 380/49
QUINTON, J.P., ‘Reading the Landscape’, 380/48
SULLIVAN, Thom, ‘In Camera’, 379/52
TEMPERTON, Barbara, ‘Foxes’ Lair’, 380/48
WRIGHT, Fiona, ‘After Mutability’, 381/52
READING AUSTRALIA
COSIC, Miriam, Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, 380/42
FRASER, Morag, Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country, 381/34
STORY
KENNEDY, Cate, Window, 385/50
SURVEYS
ARTS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
ALLISON, John, 386/42
ARCHER, Robyn, 386/42
BROOKER, Ben, 386/42
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 386/42
DICKSON, Ian, 386/42
FUHRMANN, Andrew, 386/42
GRYBOWSKI, Tony, 386/42
HALLIWELL, Michael, 386/42
HAWKER, Philippa, 386/42
KILDEA, Paul, 386/42
LARKIN, David. 386/42
McFARLANE, Brian, 386/42
McNAMARA, James, 386/42
MENZ, Christopher, 386/42
ROSE, Peter, 386/42
SCHOFIELD, Leo, 386/42
SHMITH, Michael, 386/42
WEAVER, Jacki, 386/42
WILSON, Jake, 386/42
ZWARTZ, Barney, 396/42
BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 387/18
BONGIORNO, Frank, 387/18
BRADLEY, James, 387/18
BURNS, Shannon, 387/18
CASTAGNA, Felicity, 387/18
COSIC, Miriam, 387/18
CRAVEN, Peter, 387/18
DAVIS, Glyn, 387/18
DONALDSON, Ian, 387/18
DOOGUE, Geraldine, 387/18
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 387/18
FRASER, Morag, 387/18
GILES, Paul, 387/18
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 387/18
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 387/18
GORTON, Lisa, 387/18
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 387/18
HETHERINGTON, Paul, 387/18
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 387/18
JOSE, Nicholas, 387/18
LEA, Bronwyn, 387/18
LEVER, Susan, 387/18
MCCOOEY, David, 387/18
MCKENNA, Mark, 387/18
MCNAMARA, James, 387/18
MARES, Peter, 387/18
MATTHEWS, Brian, 387/18
NOSKE, Catherine, 387/18
O’REILLY, Paddy, 387/18
PAGE, Geoff, 387/18
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 387/18
RABALAIS, Kevin, 387/18
RUBBO, Mark, 387/18
SHERIDAN, Susan, 387/18
SHMITH, Michael, 387/18
STARKE, Ruth, 387/18
SULLIVAN, Jane, 387/18
TORMEY, Simon, 387/18
WALKER, Brenda, 387/18
WEBB, Jen, 387/18
WRIGHT, Fiona, 387/18
BOOKS OF THE YEAR – PUBLISHERS
BALL, Ben, 387/40
CURNOW, Meredith, 387/40
DUFFY, Madonna, 387/40
HEATH, Sally, 387/40
HEYWARD, Michael, 387/40
HOLLIER, Nathan, 387/40
INDYK, Ivor, 387/40
MCGUINNESS, Phillipa, 387/40
PALFREYMAN, Jane, 387/40
TUFFIELD, Aviva, 387/40
WHITE, Terri-ann, 387/40
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 387/40
TRIBUTE
LLOYD JAMES, Andy and Peter Rose, Brian Johns (1936–2016), 379/5