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January–February 2017, no. 388

January–February 2017, no. 388

Welcome to our January–February issue! Highlights of the double issue include:

  • Klaus Neumann on refugees
  • Angelo Loukakis on Don Watson
  • Gabriel García Ochoa – Letter from Mexico
  • Publisher of the Month – our new Q & A
  • Three new ABR Writers’ Fellowships, each worth $7,500
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Poetry

Peter Kenneally reviews 'Our Lady of the Fence Post' J.H. Crone, 'Border Security' by Bruce Dawe, 'Melbourne Journal' by Alan Loney, and 'Star Struck' by David McCooey

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Open Page

Open Page with Kim Mahood

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Cricket

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Benaud: An appreciation' by Brian Matthews

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Memoir

Sue Bond reviews 'Saltwater' by Cathy McLennan

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Memoir

Kate Ryan reviews 'Poum and Alexandre: A Paris memoir' by Catherine de Saint Phalle

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Essay Collection

Jennifer Levasseur reviews 'A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on art, sex, and the mind' by Siri Hustvedt

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Norway

Adrian Walsh reviews 'Trillion Dollar Baby: How Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Won a Lasting Fortune' by Paul Cleary

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Publisher of the Month

Michael Heyward is Publisher of the Month

Military History

Kevin Foster reviews 'Double Diamonds: Australian commandos in the Pacific War 1941-45' by Karl James

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History

Kristian Camilleri reviews 'The Age of Genius: The seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind' by A.C. Grayling

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History

Benjamin Madden reviews 'Empire of Things: How we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first' by Frank Trentmann

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Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews 'ADHD Nation: The disorder. The drugs. The inside story.' by Alan Schwarz

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Opera

Tim Byrne reviews 'The Ring of Truth' by Roger Scruton

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Music

John Rickard reviews 'Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and her pupils' by Roger Neill

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Dance

Lee Christofis reviews 'Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today' by Simon Morrison

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Opera

Der Ring des Nibelungen

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Fiction

Duncan Fardon reviews 'The Museum of Modern Love' by Heather Rose

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Birdman's Wife' by Melissa Ashley

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Fiction

Dean Biron reviews 'Old Scores' by David Whish-Wilson

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Fiction

Josephine Taylor reviews 'Where the Light Falls' by Gretchen Shirm

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Fiction

Kevin Brophy reviews 'Ghostspeaking' by Peter Boyle

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Fiction

Gabriel García Ochoa reviews 'The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World' by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Extinctions' by Josephine Wilson

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Fiction

Shannon Burns reviews 'Autumn' by Ali Smith

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Politics

Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'The Turnbull Gamble' by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen

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Biography

James Dunk reviews 'Dr James Barry: A woman ahead of her time' by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield

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Biography

John Arnold reviews 'Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880' by Maggie Black

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Australian History

Michael Winkler reviews 'From the Edge: Australia’s lost histories' by Mark McKenna

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Biography

Evelyn Juers reviews 'Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann' by Frederic Spotts

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Biography

Jill Burton reviews 'Cynthia Nolan: A biography' by M.E. McGuire

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Biography

Ann-Marie Priest reviews 'Katherine Mansfield: The early years' by Gerri Kimber

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Memoir

Suzy Freeman-Greene reviews 'In the Darkroom' by Susan Faludi

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Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Best Australian Stories 2016' edited by Charlotte Wood

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Commentary

The City of Palaces by Gabriel García Ochoa

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Society

Angelo Loukakis reviews 'A Single Tree: Voices from the bush' compiled by Don Watson

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Society

Klaus Neumann reviews 'What Is a Refugee?' by William Maley, 'Violent Borders: Refugees and the right to move' by Reece Jones, and 'Borderlands: Towards an anthropology of the cosmopolitan condition' by Michel Agier

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - December 2016

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - January-February 2017

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