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August 2023, no. 456

August 2023, no. 456

Welcome to the August issue of ABR! This month we celebrate great short fiction with the announcement and publication of the shortlist for the 2023 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The winner will be revealed at an online ceremony on 17 August. Also in the August issue, Dennis Altman explores some of the complexities facing Australian Jews regarding Australia’s relationship with Israel, James Ley reflects on J.M. Coetzee’s novel The Life and Times of Michael K forty years after its original publication, and Jonathan Green reviews a new biography of Rupert Murdoch. Elsewhere, Kevin Foster examines the first of two new books on the Ben Roberts-Smith case, Joan Beaumont reviews a new work of history from Robin Prior, and Shannon Burns considers a new book on Gerald Murnane.

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Full Contents

Advances

Advances - August 2023

by Australian Book Review
Letters

Letters to the Editor - August 2023

by Australian Book Review
Law

Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie

Indonesia

War on Corruption: An Indonesian experience by Todung Mulya Lubis

Memoir

Memoirs by Robert Lowell, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc

Fiction

The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall

Fiction

Audition by Pip Adam

Fiction

Be Mine by Richard Ford

Fiction

Thaw by Dennis Glover

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Black Wax

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Our Own Fantastic

Biography

Masquerade: The lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden

Literary Studies

Murnane by Emmett Stinson

Literary Studies

The Wife of Bath by Marion Turner

Poetry

Shore Lines by Andrew Taylor

Poetry

In the Photograph by Luke Beesley

Interview

Poet of the Month with Felicity Plunkett

by Australian Book Review
Gender

Tissue by Madison Griffiths

Open Page

An interview with Belinda Alexandra

by Australian Book Review