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April 2023, no. 452
In the April issue of ABR, we look at power, with a major commentary from James Curran on Southeast Asian perceptions of Australian foreign policy, reviews of books about Australian prime ministers, Tanya Plibersek, American myths and hyperpower, and – at the other end of power – life on welfare. We review new fiction from Alexis Wright, Eleanor Catton, Margaret Atwood, Stephanie Bishop, and others. And in a provocative commentary, Debi Hamilton describes noise as the ‘new smoking’ and Peter Rose sketches a New York portrait of writers Darryl Pinckney and Elizabeth Hardwick.
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Full Contents
Politics
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak power, great power, superpower, hyperpower by Michael Mandelbaum
by Emma Shortis
History
Myth America: Historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
Memoir
Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
by Peter Rose
Politics
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers by Chris Wallace
by James Walter
Biography
Drink Against Drunkenness: The life and times of Sasha Soldatow by Inez Baranay
by Susan Varga
History