Australian Book Review

June-July 2017, no. 392

June-July 2017, no. 392

Welcome to the June-July issue! Highlights include:

The 2017 Calibre Essay Prize winner: 'Salt Blood' by Michael Adams
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Arundhati Roy's second novel
Henry Rosenbloom is Publisher of the Month
Varun Ghosh reviews two books on Obama's legacy
Robin Gerster reviews a comprehensive history of Vietnam
Phoebe Weston-Evans's 'Letter from Paris'

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Full Contents

Essay Collection

‘Desert Masterpiece’ (Introduction to the Text Classics edition of Tobruk 1941 by Chester Wilmot) by Peter Cochrane

by Peter Cochrane

Art

Sophie Knezic reviews 'Biennials, Triennials, and documenta: The exhibitions that created contemporary art' by Charles Green and Anthony Gardner

by Sophie Knezic

Music

David Latham reviews 'A Pure Drop: The life and legacy of Jeff Buckley' by Jeff Apter

by David Latham

Music

Michael Morley reviews 'The Political Orchestra: the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich' by Fritz Trümpi, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg

by Michael Morley

Film

David McInnis reviews 'Shakespeare’s cinema of love: A study in genre and influence' by R.S. White

by David McInnis

Journal

Robert Crocker reviews 'Griffith Review 55: State of Hope' edited by Julianne Schultz and Patrick Allington

by Robert Crocker

Economics

Adrian Walsh reviews 'The Production of Money: How to break the power of bankers' by Ann Pettifor

by Adrian Walsh

Biography

Diana Glenn reviews 'Claretta: Mussolini’s last lover' by R.J.B. Bosworth

Fiction

Crusader Hillis reviews 'Finding Nevo' by Nevo Zisin

by Crusader Hillis

Critic of the Month

Morag Fraser is Critic of the Month

Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Henry Rosenbloom

Poetry

Gig Ryan reviews 'Fragments' by Antigone Kefala and 'A House by the River' by Diane Fahey

Poetry

Paul Hetherington reviews 'Some Things to Place in a Coffin' by Bill Manhire

by Paul Hetherington

Natural History

Danielle Clode reviews 'Wild Man From Borneo: A cultural history of the Orangutan' by Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, and Helen Tiffen

by Danielle Clode

Politics

Michael Winkler reviews 'The Mind of the Islamic State' by Robert Manne

by Michael Winkler

Politics

John Rickard reviews 'Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria 1891–1966' by Race Mathews

by John Rickard

Society

Johanna Leggatt reviews 'Depends What You Mean By Extremist: Going rogue with Australian deplorables' by John Safran

by Johanna Leggatt

Literary Studies

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews 'The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and sacred' by Lyn McCredden

by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

Fiction

Piri Eddy reviews 'Closing Down' by Sally Abbott

Fiction

Tali Lavi reviews 'As the Lonely Fly' by Sara Dowse

Fiction

Naama Grey-Smith reviews 'Gravity Well' by Melanie Joosten

by Naama Grey-Smith

Fiction

Donata Carrazza reviews 'No More Boats' by Felicity Castagna

by Donata Carrazza

Fiction

Catherine Noske reviews 'Datsunland' by Stephen Orr

by Catherine Noske

Fiction

Bernadette Brennan reviews 'The Last Garden' by Eva Hornung

by Bernadette Brennan

Fiction

Andrew Nette reviews 'Year of the Orphan' by Daniel Findlay

by Andrew Nette

Poem

'Black Door with Snow' by Shari Kocher

by Shari Kocher

Poem

'Liked In Prison' by Michael Farrell

by Michael Farrell

Australian History

Simon Caterson reviews 'Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks' by Craig Collie

by Simon Caterson

Graphic Novel

Dilan Gunawardana reviews 'Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63' by Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel

by Dilan Gunawardana

History

Miriam Cosic reviews 'A Perfidious Distortion of History: The Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis' by Jürgen Tampke

by Miriam Cosic

Letters

Letters to the Editor - June-July 2017

by Hidden Author

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - June-July 2017

by Australian Book Review

Literary Studies

Delys Bird reviews 'Like Nothing on this Earth: A literary history of the wheatbelt' by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

Memoir

Kevin Rabalais reviews 'Between Them: Remembering my parents' by Richard Ford

by Kevin Rabalais

Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'This Water: Five tales' by Beverley Farmer

by Anna MacDonald

Commentary

Letter from Paris

by Phoebe Weston-Evans

Vietnam

Robin Gerster reviews 'Việt Nam: A History from earliest times to the present' by Ben Kiernan

by Robin Gerster

Poetry

Rose Lucas reviews 'Snake Like Charms' by Amanda Joy and 'The Herring Lass' by Michelle Cahill

Politics

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail' by Jonathan Chait and 'We Are The Change We Seek: The speeches of Barack Obama' edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid

Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' by Arundhati Roy

by Kerryn Goldsworthy

Calibre Prize

2017 Calibre Essay Prize (winner): 'Salt Blood'

by Michael Adams