August 2020, no. 423
Welcome to the August issue of ABR – an unusually long issue full of reviews, literary news, and creative writing, including the three stories shortlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, to be announced on August 13. Our shortlisted authors are C.J. Garrow, Simone Hollander, and Mykaela Saunders. Happily, the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund – a long-time supporter of ABR – has enabled us to expand our commentary material with a most welcome grant. This month we lead with a major article by historian Georgina Arnott on the legacies of British slavery and their implications for Australia. James Ley laments the federal governments vendetta against the arts, the ABC, and the humanities. And Kieran Pender writes about the legal profession’s #MeToo moment in the wake of the Dyson Heydon revelations.
Full Contents
Open Page with Patrick Allington
The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think by Jennifer Ackerman
Sky Swimming: Reflection on auto/biography, people and place by Sylvia Martin
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better answers to our biggest problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
The Morals of the Market: Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire by Kama Maclean
The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble by Christopher Pyne
J.M. Coetzee by Anthony Uhlmann & A Book of Friends edited by Dorothy Driver
The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe by Terry Irving
Advances: Literary News
Letters to the Editor
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