April 2022, no. 441
April won’t quite seem the cruellest month now that the latest issue of ABR has arrived. In our cover feature, Kieran Pender retraces the ignominious history of the case against the whistleblower Bernard Collaery, while in an extended essay review, James Ley assesses the impact of Amazon on contemporary fiction. There’s a rogues’ gallery of political biographies: Patrick Mullins looks at Bob Hawke, Iva Glisic combs through Stalin’s library, David Reeve revisits the young Soeharto, Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews the late Stuart Macintyre’s final book, while Joan Beaumont reflects on the peculiar institution that is Australian Studies at Harvard. In fiction, Robert Dessaix dives into the new Edmund White, Gay Bilson takes another turn with Craig Sherborne, and Patrick Allington bids adieu to Steven Carroll’s T.S. Eliot quartet. There’s also new poetry by Judith Bishop and Anders Villani, plenty of arts reviews and much, much more!
Full Contents
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
Our Own Worst Enemy: The assault from within on modern democracy by Tom Nichols
Return to Vietnam: An oral history of American and Australian veterans’ journeys by Mia Martin Hobbs
Eurasia without Borders: The dream of a leftist literary commons 1919–1943 by Katerina Clark
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we became postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinić & Beneath the Tree Line by Jane Gibian
Poetry and Bondage: A history and theory of lyric constraint by Andrea Brady
Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare by James Gilligan and David A.J. Richards
Letters to the Editor
News from ABR
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