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August 2016, no. 383

August 2016, no. 383

The highlights of the August Fiction issue are the three stories shortlisted in the prestigious $12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Other highlights include an extract from poet Michael Aiken's ABR Laureate's Fellowship project: Satan Repentant. Also in the issue, we have Peter Mares on Manus and Nauru, Ilana Snyder on American Jewish divisions about Israel, Neal Blewett on The Killing Season Uncut, Simon Tormey on Thomas Piketty's new work, and Bruce Moore reflects on the new Australian National Dictionary. Novelists reviewed in this issue include Annie Proulx, Louise Erdrich, Katherine Brabon, Mark O'Flynn, Zoë Morrison, and Liam Pieper. Historian Tom Griffiths is our Open Page guest.

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Full Contents

Letters

Letters to the Editor - August 2016

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - August 2016

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Open Page

Open Page with Tom Griffiths

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Philosophy

Craig Taylor reviews 'Ultimate Questions' by Brian Magee

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Religion

Simon Caterson reviews 'The Book of the People: How to read the Bible' by A.N. Wilson

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Indigenous Studies

Richard Martin reviews 'Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A vehicle for change and empowerment?'

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Memoir

Brian Matthews reviews 'Growing Wild' by Michael Wilding

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Poetry

David McCooey reviews 'The Hatred of Poetry' by Ben Lerner

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Poetry

Lucas Smith reviews 'She Woke & Rose' by Autumn Royal, 'Lake' by Claire Nashar, 'Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined' by Rachel Briggs, 'Spelter to Pewter' by Javant Biarujia, 'Koel' by Jen Crawford, and 'Broken Teeth' by Tony Birch

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Fiction

Laurie Steed reviews 'The Toymaker' by Liam Pieper

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Language

The new 'Australian National Dictionary' by Bruce Moore

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Biography

Peter Heerey reviews 'Tom Hughes QC: A cab on the rank' by Ian Hancock

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Australian History

Peter Christoff reviews 'The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia' by Ian Lowe

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Essay Collection

Carol Middleton reviews 'All my Januaries' by Barbara Blackman

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Essay Collection

Doug Wallen reviews 'On Bowie' by Simon Critchley

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Biography

Kevin Rabalais reviews 'The Last Love Song: A biography of Joan Didion' by Tracy Daugherty

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Letters

John Arnold reviews 'Passions of a mighty heart: The selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall' edited by Suzanne Robinson

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Fiction

Dean Biron reviews 'Black Teeth' by Zane Lovitt

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Fiction

Naama Amram reviews 'The Healing Party' by Micheline Lee

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Fiction

Marie O'Rourke reviews 'Music and Freedom' by Zoë Morrison

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Fiction

Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Portable Curiosities' by Julie Koh

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Fiction

David Thomas Henry Wright reviews 'Their brilliant careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers' by Ryan O'Neill

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Fiction

Suzanne Falkiner reviews 'The Last Days of Ava Langdon' by Mark O'Flynn

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Politics

Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'Firing Line: Australia's path to war (Quarterly Essay 62) by James Brown

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Poem

ABR Laureate's Fellowship: extract from 'Satan Repentant' by Michael Aiken

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Economics

Simon Tormey reviews 'Chronicles: On our troubled times' by Thomas Piketty

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Politics

Peter Mares reviews 'Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru' by Madeline Gleeson

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Fiction

Sarah Myles reviews 'LaRose' by Louise Erdrich

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Memoir

Rose Lucas reviews 'Avalanche: A love story' by Julia Leigh

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Fiction

Felicity Plunkett reviews 'The Memory Artist' by Katherine Brabon

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Poetry

Stephen Edgar reviews 'Collected Poems' by Vikram Seth

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Music

Paul Kildea reviews 'Beethoven for a Later Age: The journey of a string quartet' by Edward Dusinberre

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Letters

James McNamara reviews 'The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929' edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon

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Australian History

Mark McKenna reviews 'The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft' by Tom Griffiths

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Biography

Ian Donaldson reviews 'Hegel's Owl: The life of Bernard Smith' by Sheridan Palmer

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Israel

Ilana Snyder reviews 'Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish conflict over Israel' by Dov Waxman

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Fiction

James Bradley reviews 'Barkskins' by Annie Proulx

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Politics

Neal Blewett reviews 'The Killing Season Uncut' by Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum

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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'Ash' by Anthony Lawrence

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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2016 (Winner): 'Glisk' by Josephine Rowe

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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'The Water Calligrapher's Women' by Jonathan Tel

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