Australian Book Review

April 2014, no. 360

April 2014, no. 360

Welcome to the April issue! Our main feature is our Calibre Prize winner for 2014 – Christine Piper’s outstanding ‘Unearthing the Past’ in which Dr Piper writes about Japan’s biological warfare program and the search for answers. Also in the April issue: Adrian Walsh on austerity, Dennis Altman on Edmund White, and reviews of new fiction by Craig Sherborne, Moira McKinnon, and Abbas El-Zein. Also Kate Holden reviews the new novel from our Open Page guest Linda Jaivin and we publish new poems by Will Eaves, Brendan Ryan, Kate Middleton, and Judith Bishop.

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Picture Books

Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews 'Fire' by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, 'Here in the Garden' by Briony Stewart, 'My Nanna is a Ninja' by Damon Young, 'The Swap' by Jan Ormerod, 'The Bouncing Ball' by Deborah Kelly, and 'Max' by Marc Martin

by Stephanie Owen Reeder

Poetry

New Selected Poems by Geoff Page

by Dennis Haskell

Philosophy

Empathy: A handbook for revolution by Roman Krznaric

by Miriam Cosic

Biology

Blood: The stuff of life by Lawrence Hill

Literary Studies

The Road to Middlemarch: My life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead

by Claire Thomas

Film

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson & Barbara Stanwyck by Andrew Klevan

by Desley Deacon

Open Page

Open Page with Linda Jaivin

by Australian Book Review

Journals

SOUTHERLY: VOL. 73, NO. 2 edited by David Brooks and Elizabeth McMahon

by Nigel Featherstone

Music

The Leonard Bernstein Letters edited by Nigel Simeone

Music

THE ART OF NICK CAVE: NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS edited by John H. Baker

Biography

Kafka by Reiner Stach & Kafka by Reiner Stach

by Shannon Burns

Memoir

The Twelfth Raven by Doris Brett

by Rachel Robertson

Anthology

From the Trenches: The Best Anzac Writing of World War One edited by Mark Dapin

Fiction

The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein

Fiction

The Train to Paris by Sebastian Hampson

Film

Half of a Yellow Sun

Fiction

THE ITALIANS AT CLEAT’S CORNER STORE by Jo Riccioni

by Alex Cothren

Fiction

The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt

by Carol Middleton

Fiction

Cicada by Moira McKinnon

by Francesca Sasnaitis

Language

Slang and the Australian Soldier by Amanda Laugesen

by Amanda Laugesen

Poems

'Reading the Greek Myths', a new poem by Judith Bishop

by Judith Bishop

Poems

Camellias

by Brendan Ryan

Poems

'The Presence at Drake Court', a new poem by Will Eaves

Religion

POPE FRANCIS: UNTYING THE KNOTS by Paul Vallely

by Michael McGirr

Economics

The Affluent Society Revisited by Mike Berry

India

WHAT WOULD GANDHI DO? by Michael Kirby

by Thomas Weber

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

Critic of the Month

Miriam Cosic is Critic of the Month

by Miriam Cosic

Fiction

TREE PALACE by Craig Sherborne

by Jane Goodall

Memoirs

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White

by Dennis Altman

Fiction

Country Girl by Edna O’Brien & The Love Object by Edna O’Brien

by Morag Fraser

Fiction

Kate Holden reviews 'The Empress Lover' by Linda Jaivin

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by Philip Drew et al.

Poetry

'Of Ash', a new poem by Kate Middleton

by Kate Middleton

Economics

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth

by Adrian Walsh

Calibre Prize

2014 Calibre Prize (Winner): Unearthing the Past

by Christine Piper

Memoirs

Rachel Robertson reviews 'The Twelfth Raven' by Doris Brett

by Rachel Robertson

Theatre

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