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May 2019, no. 411
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Fiction
'This is the way the world ends' by Beejay Silcox
by
Beejay Silcox
Poetry
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers
by Nam Le
by
Peter Rose
Environmental Studies
City of Trees: Essays on life, death and the need for a forest
by Sophie Cunningham
by
Johanna Leggatt
Poem
'As Time Goes By', a new poem by Bella Li
by
Bella Li
Open Page
Open Page with Judith Brett
Environmental Studies
Night Parrot: Australia’s most elusive bird
by Penny Olsen
by
Neil Murray
Poetry
The Shahnameh: The Persian epic as world literature
by Hamid Dabashi
by
Darius Sepehri
Poet of the Month
Emma Lew is Poet of the Month
Environment
The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future
by David Wallace-Wells
by
Deb Anderson
Society
Breaking Point: The future of Australian cities
by Peter Seamer
by
Tom Bamforth
Society
The Coddling of the American Mind
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
by
David Rolph
Philosophy
The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the role and nature of morality
by Philip Pettit, edited by Kinch Hoekstra with Michael Tomasello
by
David Neil
Sport
On Cricket
by Mike Brearley
by
Gideon Haigh
Memoir
The Existential Englishman: Paris among the artists
by Michael Peppiatt
by
Gemma Betros
Biography
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
by Andrew S. Curran
by
Peter McPhee
History
Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
by Timothy Verhoeven
by
Ian Tyrrell
Biography
An Unconventional Wife: The life of Julia Sorell Arnold
by Mary Hoban
by
Jim Davidson
Fiction
The Shining Wall
by Melissa Ferguson
by
Jacinta Mulders
Fiction
Driving Into the Sun
by Marcella Polain
by
Stephen Dedman
Fiction
Gravity Is The Thing
by Jaclyn Moriarty
by
Naama Grey-Smith
Fiction
Into the Fire
by Sonia Orchard
by
Keyvan Allahyari
Fiction
Room for a Stranger
by Melanie Cheng
by
Alice Nelson
Essay Collection
Practice: Journalism, essays and criticism
by Guy Rundle
by
Ryan Cropp
Fiction
Chris Flynn reviews four new crime novels
by
Chris Flynn
Fiction
Memories of the Future
by Siri Hustvedt
by
James Ley
Fiction
A Lovely and Terrible Thing
by Chris Womersley
by
Brenda Walker
Fiction
Simpson Returns: A novella
by Wayne Macauley
by
Alex Cothren
Fiction
Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
by
Paul Giles
Poem
'Karen Carpenter', a new poem by Charles Bernstein
by
Charles Bernstein
Film
This Young Monster
by Charlie Fox
by
Keegan O'Connor
Theatre
The Ripples Before the New Wave: Drama at the University Of Sydney 1957–1963
by Robyn Dalton and Laura Ginters
by
Gillian Appleton
Theatre
Remembered Presences: Responses to theatre
by Alison Croggon
by
Ben Brooker
History
Australia's Vietnam: Myth vs history
by Mark Dapin
by
Michael Sexton
Commentary
'Why do politicians find tax justice so hard?' by Daniel Halliday
by
Daniel Halliday
Poem
'Painting the horizon', a new poem by Kristen Lang
by
Kristen Lang
Economics
Moneyland: Why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back
by Oliver Bullough
by
Kieran Pender
Politics
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting
by Judith Brett
by
Frank Bongiorno
Poetry
Crow College: New and selected poems
by Emma Lew
by
Judith Bishop
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk - May 2019
by
Australian Book Review
Letters
Letters to the Editor - May 2019
by
Arnold Zable et al., Roger Levi
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