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September 2017, no. 394

September 2017, no. 394

Welcome to the September issue! Highlights include:

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Advances

An open letter on same sex marriage

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Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Richard Walsh

Essay Collection

Mark Williams reviews 'Can You Tolerate This?: Personal essays' by Ashleigh Young

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Literary Studies

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'A History of Modern French Literature: From the sixteenth century to the twentieth century' edited by Christopher Prendergast

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Poetry

Joan Fleming reviews 'The Blue Decodes' by Cassie Lewis and 'redactor' by Eddie Paterson

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Poetry

Anthony Lawrence reviews 'Selected Poems 1968–2014' by Paul Muldoon

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Poetry

Ian Dickson reviews 'Robert Lowell: Setting the river on fire: A study of genius, mania and character' by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Education

Robert Phiddian reviews 'Speaking of Universities' by Stefan Collini

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Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews 'The Secret Life of The Mind: How our brain thinks, feels, and decides' by Mariano Sigman

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Science and Technology

Robyn Williams reviews 'Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a new window on the universe' by Peter Robertson

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Economics

Geoffrey Blainey reviews 'A Little History of Economics' by Niall Kishtainy

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Poem

'Art Detective' by Lucy Dougan

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Memoir

Brian Matthews reviews 'A Führer for a Father: The Domestic Face of Colonialism' by Jim Davidson

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Gender

Tali Lavi reviews 'Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business' by Catherine Fox

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Jewish Studies

Elisabeth Holdsworth reviews 'Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian military' by Mark Dapin

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Military History

Seumas Spark reviews 'The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam' edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor

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United States

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton' by William E. Leuchtenburg

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Politics

Shaun Crowe reviews 'Reboot: A democracy makeover to empower Australia’s voters' by Richard Walsh

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Australian History

Billy Griffiths reviews 'The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain’s Tasmanian invasion' by Nick Brodie

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Politics

Colin Wight reviews 'The End of Europe: Dictators, demagogues, and the coming Dark Age' by James Kirchick

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Politics

Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'The Show: Another side of Santamaria’s movement' by Mark Aarons and John Grenville

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Fiction

Sonia Nair reviews 'The Hope Fault' by Tracy Farr

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Fiction

Patrick Holland reviews 'Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria: A novel in thirty-four cantos' by Brian Castro

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Fiction

Johanna Leggatt reviews 'Australia Day' by Melanie Cheng

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Fiction

Josephine Taylor reviews 'The Gulf' by Anna Spargo-Ryan

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Fiction

Shannon Burns reviews 'The Town' by Shaun Prescott

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Fiction

Patrick Allington reviews 'A New England Affair' by Steven Carroll

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Fiction

Susan Midalia reviews 'Pulse Points' by Jennifer Down

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Israel

Danielle Celermajer reviews 'Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, leader, statesman' by Itamar Rabinovich

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Fiction

Phoebe Weston-Evans reviews 'So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood' by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

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Essay Collection

'Beyond Songlines' by Philip Jones

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Fiction

Fiona Wright reviews 'Common People' by Tony Birch

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Fiction

James Ley reviews 'The Choke' by Sofie Laguna

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Essay Collection

Sue Kossew reviews 'Late Essays: 2006–2017' by J.M. Coetzee

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Biography

John Rickard reviews 'The Enigmatic Mr Deakin' by Judith Brett

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - September 2017

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Commentary

'The same-sex marriage debate' by Peter Rose

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