June 2024, no. 465
The June issue goes subterranean with James Curran on AUKUS and the stark differences between US and Australian rhetoric about the submarine program. Miranda Johnson reports on the erosion of a bicultural consensus in Aotearoa New Zealand. Peter Rose reviews the letters of Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower. Matthew Lamb tells of the covert actions involving Frank Moorhouse and a photocopier that strengthened Australia’s copyright laws. James Ley considers Salman Rushdie’s Knife, and Anna Krien a pioneering environmentalist in John Büsst. We review memoirs by Bruce Pascoe and Werner Herzog, and fiction from Shankari Chandran, Louise Milligan, Ceridwen Dovey, and more. And in ABR Arts, Neil Armfield is our guest on Backstage.
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Biography
Occidental Preacher, Accidental Teacher: The enigmatic Clive Williams, Volume One, 1921-1968 by Shannon L. Smith
Art
The Adelaide Art Scene by Margot Osborne & AGSA 500 edited by Rhana Devenport
Television
Netflicks: Conceptual television in the streaming era by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Philosophy
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's lessons in love and disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Biography
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog, translated by Michael Hofmann
by Corey Cribb
Society
The Relationship Is the Project: A guide to working with communities edited by Jade Lillie and Kate Larsen with Cara Kirkwood and Jax Brown
Environment
Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
by Dave Witty
Environment
John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest by Iain McCalman
by Anna Krien