Australian Book Review

March 2019, no. 409

March 2019, no. 409

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Fiction

Rose Lucas reviews The Last Wave by Gillian Best

International Studies

Mark Gibeau reviews The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat

Fiction

Jack Callil reviews Hare's Fur by Trevor Shearston

Fiction

David Whish-Wilson reviews three new crime novels

by David Whish-Wilson

Fiction

David Haworth reviews Zebra & other Stories by Debra Adelaide

by David Haworth

Commentary

Jacinta Mulders reviews Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman

by Jacinta Mulders

Commentary

Tali Lavi reviews Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become by Lee Kofman

Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon

Commentary

Johanna Leggatt reviews The Thinking Woman by Julienne van Loon

by Johanna Leggatt

Shakespeare

David McInnis reviews Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt

by David McInnis

Poetry

Geoff Page reviews Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane

Poem

'Flight from Manus' by Behrouz Boochani

by Behrouz Boochani

Poetry

Jennifer Strauss reviews The Feather Boy & Other Poems by Judith Rodriguez

by Jennifer Strauss

Fiction

Amy Baillieu reviews You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

by Amy Baillieu

Biography

Gemma Betros reviews The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer

by Gemma Betros

Biography

Rémy Davison reviews A Certain Idea of France: The life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson

by Rémy Davison

Biography

Paul Kildea reviews Fryderyk Chopin: A life and times by Alan Walker

Biography

Sheridan Palmer reviews The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, A biography by Reg MacDonald

by Sheridan Palmer

Photography

Alison Stieven-Taylor reviews Visualising Human Rights edited by Jane Lydon

by Alison Stieven-Taylor

Memoir

Susan Sheridan reviews Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent

by Susan Sheridan

Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Year of The Beast by Steven Carroll

by Kerryn Goldsworthy

Fiction

James Ley reviews Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany

Politics

Paul Williams reviews Born to Rule? by Paddy Manning

by Paul D. Williams

History

Michael McGirr reviews A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall

by Michael McGirr

History

Ian Tyrrell reviews Progressive New World by Marilyn Lake

Commentary

Tom Bamforth reviews No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s housing crisis by Peter Mares

by Tom Bamforth

Essay Collection

Daniel Juckes reviews Call Them by Their True Names: American crises (and essays) by Rebecca Solnit

by Daniel Juckes

Commentary

'The resilience of non-fiction publishing' by Dominic Kelly

by Dominic Kelly

History

Prudence Flowers reviews Civilizing Torture: An American tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

by Prudence Flowers

Fiction

Chris Murray reviews Fusion by Kate Richards

by Chris Murray

Fiction

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews Lucida Intervalla by John Kinsella

by Francesca Sasnaitis

Politics

Ceridwen Spark reviews The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the future of liberalism by Russell Blackford

by Ceridwen Spark

Open Page

Open Page with Debra Adelaide

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - January-February 2019

by Australian Book Review

Letters

Letters to the Editor - March 2019

by Marilyn Lake

Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2019 Porter Prize Shortlist

by Australian Book Review