March 2021, no. 429
Welcome to the March issue of Australian Book Review. Highlights include young Melbourne historian Samuel Watts’s shocked response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, to which he brings a needed historical perspective, reminding us that this was not the first time that racists and insurrectionists sought to disrupt the democratic process. Peter Tregear – at a time of great stress and uncertainty in the higher education sector – reviews a new history of Australian universities. Sarah Maddison reviews Henry Reynolds’s new book, in which he calls for ‘truth-telling’ about Australia’s history. Gerard Windsor reviews Murray Bail’s new memoir, He. Beejay Silcox reviews Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Klara and the Sun, and we also review fiction by Trevor Shearston, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Karen Wyld. Paul Kildea writes about the new production of Bitten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Adelaide, and Michael Morley recalls the night he met John le Carré.
Full Contents
Celestial Tapestry: The warp and weft of art and mathematics by Nicholas Mee
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
Killing Sydney by Elizabeth Farrelly & Sydney (Second Edition) by Delia Falconer
Dislocations: The selected innovative poems of Paul Muldoon edited by John Kinsella
Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future by Danielle Celermajer
The Anthropocene by Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz & Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
The Climate Cure: Solving the climate emergency in the era of Covid-19 by Tim Flannery
Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau or how free speech became so complicated by Malcolm Knox
An interview with Jacqueline Kent
The Churchill Complex: The rise and fall of the special relationship by Ian Buruma
Englishness: The political force transforming Britain by Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones
Australian Universities: A history of common cause by Gwilym Croucher and James Waghorne
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century: A comparative history by Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele
The Interest: How the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery by Michael Taylor
Distant Sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–1914 by James Keating
Truth-telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
Letters to the Editor
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