January–February 2021, no. 428
Welcome to our summer issue – the first of 2021. On our cover is Peter Porter, to complement the five poems shortlisted in the 2021 Porter Prize. This year’s shortlist is wonderfully diverse, with poets from Australia, Canada and the United States. Elsewhere, Jon Piccini reviews two very different readings of the Palace Letters. Timothy J. Lynch lauds Barack Obama’s memoirs as the best presidential memoirs since Ulysses S. Grant’s, but notes a certain elephant in the room – Donald Trump and the spectre of Trumpism. Louise Milligan is our Open Page guest this month, and Beejay Silcox reviews Milligan’s new book, Witness, a searing account of the brutal cost of seeking justice in this country – especially for witnesses. Tim Byrne considers the early, rambunctious years of Nick Cave. We also review new novels by Garry Disher, Ceridwen Dovey, Dennis Glover and Anna MacDonald.
Full Contents
Witness: An investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice by Louise Milligan
The Louvre: The many lives of the world’s most famous museum by James Gardner
An interview with Louise Milligan
Metazoa: Animal minds and the birth of consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Fire Flood Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 edited by Sophie Cunningham
Time of the Magicians: The invention of modern thought, 1919–1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger, translated by Shaun Whiteside
Russia Is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War edited by Maria Bloshteyn
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, loss and hope in the face of the environmental crisis edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, and Jenny Newell
Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey
An interview with Beejay Silcox
The International Brigades: Fascism, freedom and the Spanish Civil War by Giles Tremlett
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O’Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
Tjanimaku Tjukurpa: How one young man came good by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council
The Last Million: Europe’s displaced persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks exposés edited by Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau
The Truth of the Palace Letters by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston & The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking
ABR News
Letters to the Editor
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