May 2021, no. 431
Welcome to the May issue! Our cover story is devoted to the stubborn persistence of poverty and social inequality in Australia. Glyn Davis (CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation) draws on the writings and example of Hugh Stretton to ask why poverty continues to be handed down from parent to child. Historian Lisa Ford reviews Bain Attwood’s major new book on sovereignty, property, and native title. Stuart Macintyre’s examines the prolific Sheila Fitzpatrick’s study of postwar migration to Australia. James Ley is underwhelmed by Harold Bloom’s posthumous book – ‘a bloated mess’. We review novels by Haruki Murakami, Jamie Marina Lau, Pip Adam, and Emily Maguire. Francesca Sasnaitis is also impressed by the new memoir by Krissy Kneen, who is also our Open Page guest.
Full Contents
Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap by Royce Kurmelovs
Beyond the Sky: The passions of Millicent Bryant, aviator by James Vicars
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
Dizzy Limits: Recent experiments in Australian nonfiction by Brow Books
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo future in north-west Australia by Stephen Muecke
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with my grandmother’s ashes by Krissy Kneen
African American Poetry: 250 years of struggle and song by edited by Kevin Young
An interview with Krissy Kneen
The Artful Dickens: The tricks and ploys of the great novelist by John Mullan
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The power of the reader’s mind over a universe of death by Harold Bloom
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War history of migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand and the Armenian Genocide by James Robins
Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, property and Indigenous people by Bain Attwood
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on lost time by Hugh Raffles
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