August 2021, no. 434
The August issue offers readers a feast of fiction, along with the magazine’s usual probing commentary and criticism. The issue features all three stories shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, as well as reviews of new books by Rachel Cusk, Tony Birch, Bill Birtles and ABR Rising Star Sarah Walker. In non-fiction, Stephen Bennetts highlights one of the overlooked contexts for the debate over Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, while Michael Dwyer recounts Australian journalists’ enduring fascination with China. The risks of border crossing are also weighed by Elisabeth Holdsworth and Seumas Spark in their reviews of recent books on the history of transportation. Brenda Walker and Jim Davidson pay tributes to the achievements of Hazel Rowley and Robin Boyd, respectively, and there are poems by Joan Fleming, John Kinsella, and Laurie Duggan – as well as plenty more!
Full Contents
The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy shaped British, Irish, and US writers by Lauren Arrington
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited by Margaret Jull Costa
Condemned: The transported men, women and children who built Britain’s empire by Graham Seal
Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia by Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865–1915 by Jon Grinspan
Where We Swim: Explorations of nature, travel and family by Ingrid Horrocks
After The Australian Ugliness edited by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, and Megan Patty
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice by Julia Laite
Life as Art: The biographical writing of Hazel Rowley by Della Rowley and Lynn Buchanan
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu debate by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe
Letters to the Editor
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