March 2023, no. 451
Welcome to the March issue of ABR. We examine everything from the new National Cultural Policy to Volodymyr Zelensky, Shirley Hazzard, First Nations incarceration, infidelity, exciting new fiction, machines behaving badly, TÁR, the young Robert Menzies, women’s cricket and much more. And while Australia is now set to receive its own Poet Laureate, ABR continues its longstanding commitment to the form, publishing four new poems and reviewing four verse collections.
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Full Contents
Indigenous Studies
Unmaking Angas Downs: History and myth on a Central Australian pastoral station by Shannyn Palmer
Biography
The Young Menzies: Success, failure, resilience 1894–1942 edited by Zachary Gorman
by David Horner
Literary Studies
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's interwar fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
Publishing
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
by Brenda Niall
Literary Studies
Seduced by Story: The use and abuse of narrative by Peter Brooks
History
Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok edited by Jacquie Houlden and Seumas Spark
History
The Pope at War: The secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
Non-fiction
Black Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in Australia by Russell Marks
by David Kearns
Literary Studies
Critical Revolutionaries: Five critics who changed the way we read by Terry Eagleton
Politics
Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, war, and the failure of international diplomacy by Alex J. Bellamy
by Tom Bamforth
Indigenous Studies