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August 2024, no. 467
The August issue of ABR includes the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist – three stories chosen from more than 1,300 entries worldwide. We celebrate James Baldwin’s centenary with an essay on his matchless legacy and Juno Gemes’s cover photograph, taken on a London rooftop in 1976. Robyn Arianrhod surveys the parlous state of Australian science writing and Peter Goldsworthy recounts his first encounter with film director Stanley Kubrick. Our non-fiction reviews include Marilyn Lake on Nuked, Zora Simic on Personal Politics, Nick Hordern on The Trial of Vladimir Putin, and Zoë Laidlaw on The Truth About Empire. We review novels by Jordan Prosser, Rachel Cusk, and Evie Wyld and poetry by Judith Beveridge. ABR’s arts reviews – on King Lear, Paul Gauguin, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? – are not to be missed.
Full Contents
The Anxious Generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness by Jonathan Haidt
Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher et al.
Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia by Deborah Bird Rose
The Light of Asia: A history of Western fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
Revolusi: Indonesia and the birth of the modern world by David Van Reybrouck, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer and David McKay
War by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
The Lucky Ones by Melinda Ham
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