December 2013–January 2014, no. 357
Welcome to our summer edition! Never before have we published 78 people in a single issue. ‘Books of the Year’ is our major feature – always fun to commission. Find out what leading writers, critics and artists enjoyed reading in 2014. Poetry is a strength this month: we have poems from Felicity Plunkett, American Paula Bohince, and Porter Prize winner Michael Farrell, among others. Dion Kagan reviews that audacious French film Stranger by the Lake, and Ian Dickson admires the STC’s Waiting for Godot. Other highlights include Robert Dessaix on Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary, Robyn Williams on Stephen Hawking, and former agent Mary Cunnane’s defence of the slush pile.
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Picture Books
Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan & Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester
Education
Queen's College the University of Melbourne: A pictorial history 1887–2012 edited by Jennifer Bars, Sophia T. Pavlovski-Ross, and David T. Runia
Biography
An Unqualified Success: The extraordinary life of Allan Percy Fleming by Peter Golding
Politics
For the True Believers: Great Labor speeches that shaped history edited by Troy Bramston
Classics
Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The legacy of the 'Natural History' by Sarah Blake McHam
Literary Studies
English as a Vocation: The Scrutiny movement by Christopher Hilliard
Literary Studies