March 2022, no. 440
As we enter the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’, ABR comes to you laden with the harvest from our two months’ absence. There’s a cornucopia of commentary, including Mindy Gill’s analysis of identity politics’ impact on reviewing, three scholars on political interference in research funding, and David Latham on the ‘Fund the Arts’ campaign. Gareth Evans reviews the ambitious new book by the polymathic Andrew Leigh, while Penny Russell examines Anna Clark’s more inclusive vision for Australian history. Peter Rose’s Editor’s Diary records life in lockdown as a publisher and a carer, with Thomas H. Ford providing a diagnosis of the ubiquity of ‘brain fog’. The issue looks at the long careers of Theory and Raymond Williams, while delving into the lives of Charles Lamb and Fyodor Dostoevsky. It also features reviews of new novels by Jessica Stanley, Yumna Kassab, and Hanya Yanagihara, poetry by Gary Catalano and Charles Bernstein – and much, much more!
Full Contents
The Exhibitionists: A history of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales by Steven Miller
Daniel Cottier: Designer, decorator, dealer by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly, with Andrew Montana and Suzan Veldink
What’s Eating the Universe?: And other cosmic questions by Paul Davies
Raymond Williams at 100 by Paul Stasi & Culture and Politics by Raymond Williams
The Making of the Bible: From the first fragments to sacred scripture by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, translated by Peter Lewis
Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter’s perspective by Patsy Millett
Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A human-animal story of captivity, patriarchy and nature by Iain McCalman
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment by Kevin Birmingham
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential risk and extreme politics by Andrew Leigh
The Summer of Theory: History of a rebellion, 1960–1990 by Philipp Felsch, translated by Tony Crawford
News from ABR
Letters to the Editor
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