August 2017, no. 393

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August 2017, no. 393

Full Contents

Open Page with Gregory Day

Publisher of the Month with Louise Adler

2017 Calibre Essay Prize (Second prize): 'To Speak of Sorrow' by Darius Sepehri

Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Violent American Century: War and Terror since World War II' by John W. Dower

Iva Glisic reviews 'Who Lost Russia?: How the world entered a new Cold War' by Peter Conradi

Jolley Prize 2017 (Winner): 'Pheidippides' by Eliza Robertson

Ceridwen Spark reviews 'Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness' by Kate Cole-Adams

Geoff Page reviews 'Transparencies' by Stephen Edgar

Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'Butter' by Lauren Aimee Curtis

Shannon Burns reviews 'The Lost Pages' by Marija Peričić

Miriam Cosic reviews 'On the Java Ridge' by Jock Serong

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews 'Taboo' by Kim Scott

Robert Dessaix reviews 'House of Names' by Colm Tóibín

Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'The Leaching Layer' by Dominic Amerena

'[sanctum sanctorum our windowless attic]' by Jaydn de Wald

Simon Tormey reviews ‘Adults in the room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment’ by Yanis Varoufakis

David Latham reviews 'The Circle and the Equator' by Kyra Giorgi

Mark Chou reviews ‘Democracy: Stories from the long road to freedom’ by Condoleezza Rice

David Schlosberg reviews 'How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, equality, nature' by George Monbiot

Tali Lavi reviews 'Once We Were Sisters' by Sheila Kocher

Wilfrid Prest reviews 'A Historian for all Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton' edited by Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Layman, and Jenny Gregory

Agnes Nieuwenhuizen reviews 'Australian Lives: An intimate history' by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson

'Little Fly' by Fay Zwicky

Ryan Cropp reviews 'Donald Horne: Selected writings' edited by Nick Horne

Alan Atkinson reviews 'Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney' by Paul Irish

Bernadette Brennan reviews 'Draw Your Weapons' by Sarah Sentilles

Tom Griffiths reviews 'The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable' by Amitav Ghosh

News from the Editor's Desk - August 2017