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May 2018, no. 401

May 2018, no. 401

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Music

Paul Watt reviews 'Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce' by David Tunley, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji

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Music

James Ley reviews 'Why Dylan Matters' by Richard F. Thomas

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Open Page

Open Page with Justine Ettler

Poet of the Month

Pam Brown is Poet of the Month

Art

Christopher Allen reviews 'Keeping Their Marbles: How the treasures of the past ended up in museums ... and why they should stay there' by Tiffany Jenkins

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Art

Brigitta Olubas reviews 'Bronwyn Oliver: Strange things' by Hannah Fink

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Cultural Studies

James Bennett reviews 'Normality: A critical genealogy' by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens

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Poetry

David Dick reviews 'Archipelago' by Adam Aitken and 'Present' by Elizabeth Allen

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Poetry

Benjamin Ivry reviews 'Our Life Grows' by Ryszard Krynicki, translated by Alissa Valles

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Poetry

David McCooey reviews 'Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry Magazine' edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Fortress' by S.A. Jones

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Fiction

Gretchen Shirm reviews 'You Belong Here' by Laurie Steed

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Fiction

Josephine Taylor reviews 'The Lucky Galah' by Tracy Sorensen

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Fiction

Lisa Bennett reviews 'A pple and Knife' by Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Epstein

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Fiction

Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover reviews 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater

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Fiction

Amy Baillieu reviews 'Flames' by Robbie Arnott

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Fiction

Shannon Burns reviews 'Relatively Famous' by Roger Averill

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Fiction

Chris Flynn reviews 'Property' by Lionel Shriver

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United States

Max Holleran reviews 'Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy' by Elaine Tyler May

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United States

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'Franklin D. Roosevelt: A political life' by Robert Dallek

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Politics

Ross McKibbin reviews 'Fall Out: A year of political mayhem' by Tim Shipman

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Poem

'The Field' by Ian Patterson

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Poem

'Four Rooms' by Julie Manning

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Poem

'Natality' by Anne Elvey

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'A Sand Archive' by Gregory Day

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Calibre Prize

2018 Calibre Essay Prize (runner-up): 'Once Again: Outside in the House of Art'

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Politics

Billy Griffiths reviews 'This Time: Australia’s republican past and future' by Benjamin T. Jones

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Indigenous Studies

Richard J. Martin reviews '"Against Native Title": Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia' by Eve Vincent and 'Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea' by Katie Glaskin

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Literary Studies

Dorothy Driver reviews 'Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world' by Lyndall Gordon

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Essay Collection

Shaun Crowe reviews 'On Borrowed Time' by Robert Manne

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Essay Collection

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980–2017' by Barry Hill

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Essay Collection

Morag Fraser reviews 'What Are We Doing Here?: Essays' by Marilynne Robinson

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Religion

Alan Atkinson reviews 'The Bible in Australia: A cultural history' by Meredith Lake

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - May 2018

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Society

Marama Whyte reviews 'The face that launched a thousand lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy' by Jessica Lake

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Literary Studies

Michael Falk reviews 'What the Victorians made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history' by Tom Mole

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Poetry

Joan Fleming reviews 'Domestic Interior' by Fiona Wright and 'The Tiny Museums' by Carolyn Abbs

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Society

John Arnold reviews 'The People’s Force: A History of Victoria Police' by Robert Haldane

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Biography

David Rolph reviews 'Ma’am Darling: Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret' by Craig Brown

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Memoir

Dion Kagan reviews 'Desire: A memoir' by Jonathan Dollimore

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