June–July 2020, no. 422
Our winter double issue features two superb meditations on family, gender, mourning and becoming. Yves Rees is the winner of this year's Calibre Essay Prize. 'Reading the Mess Backwards' is a story of trans becoming that digs into the messiness of bodies, gender and identity. ABR Rising Star Sarah Walker writes beautifully about losing her mother and the difficulties of commemoration during a pandemic. James Ley has a virtuoso pastiche of Philip Roth in his review of the Portnoy trials. Sophie Cunningham reviews Richard Cooke's book on Robyn Davidson. Plus poems by Gwen Harwood, Jaya Savige, and Stephen Edgar – and much more!
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Art
Intrépide: Australian women artists in early twentieth-century France by Clem Gorman and Therese Gorman
Art
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
Environmental Studies
The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming myths that hinder progress by Mark Jaccard
Society
Grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott & A Lasting Conversation: Stories on ageing edited by Dr Susan Ogle and Melanie Joosten
Memoir
Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia by Darleen Bungey
by Tali Lavi
Biography
Radio Girl: The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend by David Dufty
Politics
Trials and Transformations, 2001–2004: The Howard government, Volume III by Tom Frame
Net Privacy: How we can be free in an age of surveillance by Sacha Molitorisz
by Alex Tighe
History
The Ratline: Love, lies and justice on the trail of a Nazi fugitive by Philippe Sands
Literary Studies
The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system by Patrick Mullins
by James Ley
Military History
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War by Catherine Bond
Politics
Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the making of Australian politics by Sean Scalmer
Politics
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: The making of the modern Labor Party by Liam Byrne
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
by Judith Brett
Advances
Advances: Literary News
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by Jenny Hocking, Roger Rees, Elisabeth Holdsworth, Bronwyn Mills, Lindy Warrell et al