November 2020, no. 426
Welcome to the November issue! On our cover is a very young Hessom Razavi, the ABR Behrouz Boochani Fellow. In his cover article, Hessom relates his family’s trials after the Iranian Revolution, their flight to Australia, and his awareness of the immense ordeals facing refugees in Australia’s immigration centres. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth examines regional differences in Australian writing and considers the ways regional factors can influence authors. Gideon Haigh is underwhelmed by Book Woodward’s new book, Rage, and asks if Trump’s presidency has rendered traditional journalism impossible. James Ley finds much to admire in Richard Flanagan’s new novel, as does Beejay Silcox with Elena Ferrante’s first novel since the Neapolitan quartet. Susan Wyndham reviews the new novel by Craig Silvey, who is the subject of Open Page. And Judith Bishop is our Poet of the Month.
Full Contents
A Letter to Layla: Travels to our deep past and near future by Ramona Koval
Poet of the Month with Judith Bishop
The Price of Peace: Money, democracy and the life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish life by Michael Gawenda
Open Page with Craig Silvey
Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s south east forests by John Blay
The China Journals: Ideology and intrigue in the 1960s by Hugh Trevor-Roper, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia by Ben Bland
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