August 2014, no. 363
Welcome to our August issue – packed with good reading: reviews, commentary, new poetry, arts commentary. Few recent books have achieved such renown and influence as Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-first Century’; Mark Triffitt reviews it for us. We have reviews of new fiction by Gerald Murnane and Lorrie Moore; and biographies of Don Dunstan, George Herbert and Wilhelm II. Kevin Rabalais writes about ‘My Brother Jack’ on its fiftieth birthday. Finally, among our poets this month is soon-to-be-visiting UK poet Simon Armitage.
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Sport
The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary stories behind the medals by Brian Oliver
Picture Books
I Have a Dog by Charlotte Lance & Imagine a City by Elise Hurst
Science and Technology
Voyaging in Strange Seas: The great revolution in science by David Knight
Japan
A War of Words: The man who talked 4000 Japanese into surrender by Hamish McDonald
Art
Behind the Doors: An art history from Yuendumu by Philip Jones with Warlukurlangu Artists
by Colin Golvan
Russia
Kicking the Kremlin by Marc Bennetts & Putin and the Oligarch by Richard Sakwa
by Nick Hordern
Literary Studies
Antipodean America: Australasia and the constitution of U.S. Literature by Paul Giles
by Philip Mead