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March 2018, no. 399
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elcome to the March issue! Highlights include:
Paul Collins's essay on Catholicism in Australia
The 2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist
Brenda Niall reviews Tim Winton's new novel
Natalie J. Doyle on the rise of Emmanuel Macron
Ian Dickson on the first biography of Stuart Challender
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ABR RAFT Fellowship: 'God and Caesar in Australia' by Paul Collins
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Ian Dickson reviews 'Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender' by Richard Davis
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Ian Dickson
Photography
Kevin Rabalais reviews 'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson
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Kevin Rabalais
Photography
Helen Ennis reviews 'Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife' by Pamela Bannos
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Helen Ennis
Classics
Greta Hawes reviews 'Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in Ancient Greece' by Julia Kindt
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Greta Hawes
History
Kate Griffiths reviews 'Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' by James C. Scott
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Kate Griffiths
Memoir
Dennis Altman reviews 'Logical Family: A memoir' by Armistead Maupin
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Dennis Altman
Essay Collection
Susan Sheridan reviews 'Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays' edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas
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Susan Sheridan
Literary Studies
Paul Genoni reviews 'The Drover's Wife' edited by Frank Moorhouse
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Paul Genoni
Fiction
Jill Jones reviews 'The Man Who Took To His Bed' by Alex Skovron
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Jill Jones
Fiction
James Bradley reviews 'Dyschronia' by Jennifer Mills
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James Bradley
Fiction
Susan Lever reviews 'Off the Record' by Craig Sherborne
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Susan Lever
Fiction
Gillian Dooley reviews 'Mrs M: An imagined history' by Luke Slattery
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Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Tali Lavi reviews 'The Tattooist Of Auschwitz' by Heather Morris
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Tali Lavi
Fiction
Brenda Niall reviews 'The Shepherd’s Hut' by Tim Winton
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Brenda Niall
Fiction
Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Lebs' by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
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Jay Daniel Thompson
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2018 Porter Prize Shortlist
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Hidden Author
Poetry
David McCooey reviews 'Renga: 100 poems' by John Kinsella and Paul Kane
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David McCooey
Poetry
Bruce Moore reviews 'Beowulf' translated by Stephen Mitchell
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Bruce Moore
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Lucas Thompson reviews 'The Best Australian Essays 2017' edited by Anna Goldsworthy
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Lucas Thompson
Education
Kirk Graham reviews 'How To Be An Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all' by Inger Mewburn
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Kirk Graham
Anthologies
The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
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Rachael Mead
International Studies
David Fettling reviews 'Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia' by Michael Vatikiotis
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David Fettling
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David Brophy reviews 'Without America: Australia in the New Asia' (Quarterly Essay 68) by Hugh White
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David Brophy
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Philip Jones reviews 'Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901' by Tim Rowse
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Philip Jones
Psychology
Nick Haslam reviews 'Freud: The making of an illusion' by Frederick Crews
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Nick Haslam
Politics
Varun Ghosh reviews 'Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House' by Luke Harding
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Varun Ghosh
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Barbara Keys reviews 'Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics' by Lawrence O’Donnell
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Barbara Keys
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Natalie J. Doyle reviews 'Revolution' by Emmanuel Macron, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott and 'The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk' by Adam Plowright
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Natalie J. Doyle
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News from the Editor's Desk - March 2018
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Gideon Haigh reviews 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' by Michael Wolff
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Gideon Haigh
Australian History
Deborah Zion reviews 'Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian army' edited by Tom Frame and Albert Palazzo
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Deborah Zion
Shakespeare
David McInnis reviews 'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' by Rhodri Lewis
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David McInnis
Military History
Martin Crotty reviews 'Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle' by Jonathan King
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Martin Crotty
Classics
Christopher Allen reviews 'Palmyra: An irreplaceable treasure' by Paul Veyne, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
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Christopher Allen
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