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June 2021, no. 432

June 2021, no. 432

ABR has added an eleventh issue in 2021 – at no extra cost to subscribers – brimming with commentary, review essays, and creative writing. Ilana Snyder contextualises the recent turmoil in Israel and Palestine; Hessom Razavi turns our attention to the plight of refugees detained by Australia; Declan Fry examines the writings of Stan Grant; James Boyce laments the state of salmon-farming industry in Tasmania; and Martin Thomas revisits Patrick White three decades after his death. Elsewhere, explore a new short story by Josephine Rowe; poetry by Omar Sakr, Sarah Holland-Batt, and Derrick Austin; and much more.

This issue is generously funded by Matthew Sandblom and Wendy Beckett’s Blake Beckett Fund.

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Full Contents

Philosophy

Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz & The Battle of the Classics by Eric Adler

Philosophy

Animal Dreams by David Brooks

Poetry

Beowulf: A new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Short Story

Bunker

Fiction

One Hundred Days by Alice Pung

Fiction

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

Biography

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist by Resi Schwarzbauer with Chris Bell

Politics

How Good Is Scott Morrison? by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen

Feminism

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing edited by Hannah Dawson

Feminism

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel & Why We Lost the Sex Wars by Lorna Bracewell

Selected Writing

Inga Clendinnen: Selected writing edited by James Boyce

Australian History

Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under exemption edited by Lucinda Aberdeen and Jennifer Jones

Fiction

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss

Fiction

On the Line: Notes from a factory by Joseph Ponthus, translated by Stephanie Smee

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by J.T. Barbarese, James Ley