May 2022, no. 442
The May issue of ABR has arrived to keep you company while you wait in line for the next available voting booth. In our cover feature, Frank Bongiorno details how the professionalisation of politics has starved the public of leadership, while Faith Gordon makes the case for lowering the voting age. The issue casts a spotlight on secrets as difficult to face as they are to disinter – from Simon Tedeschi’s Calibre Prize-winning essay on the burden of his grandmother’s memory, to Elizabeth Tynan’s account of the atomic tests in Emu Field, to David Hill’s story of institutionalised abuse at Fairbridge Farm School. Philip Mead assesses Judith Wright’s legacy in prose, while Beejay Silcox wonders if Helen Garner has found the right rhapsodist. There’s new poetry by Michael Hofmann, Theodore Ell, and Katherine Brabon, and reviews of new fiction by Jennifer Egan, Omar Sakr, and Benjamin Stevenson. From busting crooks (political or porcine) to Buster Keaton, there’s plenty to get you through this electoral season!
Full Contents
Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice by David Hill
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a planet in crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Burning Questions: Essays and occasional pieces, 2004–2021 by Margaret Atwood
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert "Nosey Bob" Howard by Rachel Franks
Australia’s Great Depression: How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced by Joan Beaumont
Telling Tennant’s Story: The strange career of the great Australian silence by Dean Ashenden
Guilty Pigs: The weird and wonderful history of animal law by Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans
Keeping Them Honest: The case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles and Catherine Williams
China Panic: Australia's alternative to paranoia and pandering by David Brophy
Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry edited by Saba Vasefi, Melinda Smith, and Yvette Holt
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