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January–February 2025, no. 472

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.

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Full Contents

Advances

Advances – January–February 2025

by Australian Book Review
Media

Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Science

The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 edited by Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith

Memoir

A Long March by Kim Carr

Memoir

Sonny Boy: A memoir by Al Pacino

Indigenous Studies

Shapeshifting: First Nations lyric nonfiction edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven

Fiction

Matia by Emily Tsokos Purtill

Fiction

The Thinning by Inga Simpson

Fiction

The Scent of Oranges by Kathy George

Fiction

Little Bit by Heather Taylor-Johnson

Anthology

Blood & Bone: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2024 by Caileen Cachia et al.

Highlights of the Year

2024 Arts Highlights of the Year

by Anna Goldsworthy et al.
Poetry

Venetian Mirrors by Jakob Ziguras

United Kingdom

The English Soul: Faith of a nation by Peter Ackroyd

Biography

Townsend of the Ranges by Peter Crowley

Photography

Max Dupain: A portrait by Helen Ennis

Music

The Voice Inside by John Farnham with Poppy Stockell

Interview

Open Page with Lech Blaine

by Australian Book Review
Welfare

Mean Streak by Rick Morton