Australian Book Review

March 2017, no. 389

March 2017, no. 389

Welcome to the March issue! Highlights include:

Ross McKibbin on the Chilcot Report into the Iraq debacle
Margaret Harris on an ‘enthralling’ study of Queen Victoria
Morag Fraser on Mark Colvin’s dual memoir
Beejay Silcox on George Saunders’s début novel
The 2017 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist
News from the Editor's Desk

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - March 2017

by Australian Book Review

Publisher of the Month

Jonathan Galassi is Publisher of the Month

Society

John Funder reviews 'We’re all going to die' by Leah Kaminsky

Language

Bruce Moore reviews 'The Word Detective: A life in words, from Serendipity to Selfie' by John Simpson

Russia

Nick Hordern reviews 'Return to Moscow' by Tony Kevin

by Nick Hordern

Jewish Studies

Andrea Goldsmith reviews 'Berlin for Jews: A twenty-first-century companion' by Leonard Barkan

by Andrea Goldsmith

Gay Studies

Robert Reynolds reviews 'Getting Away with Murder' by Duncan McNab

by Robert Reynolds

Television

James McNamara reviews 'Television: A Biography' by David Thomson

by James McNamara

Biography

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Born to Run' by Bruce Springsteen

Poet of the Month

Bronwyn Lea is Poet of the Month

Poetry

David McCooey reviews 'Graphology Poems 1995–2015, Vols I-III' by John Kinsella

by David McCooey

Poetry

John Hawke reviews 'Contemporary Australian Poetry' edited by Martin Langford et. al. and 'The Best Australian Poems 2016' edited by Sarah Holland-Batt

Food

Christopher Menz reviews 'The Oxford Companion to Cheese' edited by Catherine Donnelly

by Christopher Menz

Fiction

Tali Lavi reviews 'Barking Dogs' by Rebekah Clarkson

Fiction

Gretchen Shirm reviews 'To Know My Crime' by Fiona Capp

by Gretchen Shirm

Fiction

Fiona Gruber reviews 'Wedding Bush Road' by David Francis

by Fiona Gruber

Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'Storm and Grace' by Kathryn Heyman

by Anna MacDonald

Fiction

Suzanne Falkiner reviews 'Gwen' by Goldie Goldbloom

by Suzanne Falkiner

Fiction

Jane Sullivan reviews 'Do You Love Me Or What?' by Sue Woolfe

by Jane Sullivan

Memoir

Elisabeth Holdsworth reviews 'Flight from the Brothers Grimm: A European- Australian memoir' by Valerie Murray

by Elisabeth Holdsworth

Memoir

Gig Ryan reviews 'The Green Bell' by Paula Keogh

Memoir

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Only: A singular memoir' by Caroline Baum

by Gillian Dooley

Memoir

Duncan Fardon reviews 'Scoundrel Days: A memoir' by Brentley Frazer

by Duncan Fardon

Anthologies

Glyn Davis reviews 'The Best Australian Essays 2016' edited by Geordie Williamson

Anthologies

Diana Bagnall reviews 'The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a decade' edited by Henry Finder

by Diana Bagnall

Biography

Brian Matthews reviews 'Dymphna' by Judith Armstrong

by Brian Matthews

Prize Shortlist

2017 Porter Prize Shortlist

by Michael Lee Phillips et al

Fiction

Miriam Cosic reviews 'The Woman on the Stairs' by Bernhard Schlink

by Miriam Cosic

Commentary

Inga Clendinnen: An Appreciation by Jay Winter

Australian History

Danielle Clode reviews 'Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story' by Elizabeth Tynan

by Danielle Clode

Biography

Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion' by Gareth Stedman Jones

by Sujatha Fernandes

Biography

James Walter reviews 'Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader' by Troy Bramston

by James Walter

Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews 'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders

by Beejay Silcox

Memoir

Morag Fraser reviews 'Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy's son' by Mark Colvin

by Morag Fraser

Biography

Margaret Harris reviews 'Victoria: The woman who made the modern world' by Julia Baird

by Margaret Harris

Commentary

Whatever it takes: A chronicle of failure and deceit in the Chilcot Report by Ross McKibbin

by Ross McKibbin