April 2020, no. 420
The April issue of ABR appears at a time of enormous crisis and seclusion around the world. Never has good journalism or creative writing been more important. In 'Coronavirus and Australian Book Review', the Editor outlines how the magazine is responding to Covid-19. Elsewhere in the issue, Jenny Hocking (Gough Whitlam's biographer) writes about John Kerr and the Palace Letters, and Johanna Leggatt laments the likely closure of AAP, with its ominous consequences for media diversity and investigative journalism. We have reviews of new books by Felicity Plunkett, Cassandra Pybus, Tom Keneally, Lydia Davis, and many more.
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Art
Australian Galleries: The Purves family business: The first four decades 1956–1999 by Caroline Field
Art
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming education through art, design and architecture by Philip Goad et al.
Biography
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
Memoir
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp by Eddy de Wind, translated by David Colmer
Memoir
Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion by Robert Tickner
by Joshua Black
Science and Technology
Waters of the World: The story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole by Sarah Dry
Sounds and Furies: The love–hate relationship between women and slang by Jonathon Green
United States
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America by Nicholas Buccola
by Samuel Watts
Letter collection
The Letters of Cole Porter edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh
by Paul Kildea
Military History
The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration edited by Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves
by Kate Ariotti
Indigenous Studies
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
Advances
Advances: Literary News
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by Carla Lipsig-Mumme, Michael Henry, Ben Brooker, Michael Morley, Vivian Morrigan, Yves Rees