January–February 2025, no. 472
In the January-February issue, we feature our annual Arts Highlights, as nominated by twenty-one critics and arts professionals. We also reveal the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlisted poems. Matthew Lamb reviews a book on Elon Musk, Eve Vincent assesses Rick Morton’s deep dive into Robodebt, and Mark Finnane has a fascinating article on the new phenomenon of Citational Justice in academic research. Julie Janson reviews a book of provocative Indigenous visions, Nick Hordern weighs Geoff Raby’s account of the Russia/China struggle, and Jonathan Ricketson reviews the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels. There’s Toby Davidson on Francis Webb, Georgina Arnott on Judith Wright, and reviews of works by Robert Fisk, Joe Aston, John Farnham, Inga Simpson, Kim Carr, Al Pacino, and more.
Full Contents
Great Game On: The contest for central Asia and global supremacy by Geoff Raby
The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out by Joe Aston
The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 edited by Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith
The High Seas: Ambition, power and greed on the unclaimed ocean by Olive Heffernan
Shapeshifting: First Nations lyric nonfiction edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven
James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects by Alexander Edward Gilly
The Buna Shots: The amazing story behind two photographs that changed the course of World War Two by Stephen Dando-Collins
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the lost empire of cool by James Kaplan
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming art and culture for the common good by Justin O’Connor
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Volume 1: Truth edited by Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne, and Marcia Langton
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