April 2025, no. 474
This April, ABR eyes the fragile state of Australian democracy and institutions. In a special election survey, senior ABR contributors brace for a federal election at a time when democracy around the world is under threat. We ask leading voices in the arts about the future of Opera Australia, a major cultural institution now under review by Creative Australia. ABR reports from Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, on cancel culture and the Pope’s memoir, and reviews work by Geraldine Brooks, Santilla Chingaipe, Laila Lalami, Martha C. Nussbaum, Caro Llewellyn, Kevin Brophy and more.
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Full Contents
Changes at Australian Book Review
by Australian Book Review
Commentary
Is our democracy failing us?: Looking beyond the cost-of-living crisis
by Frank Bongiorno, et al.
Culture
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American obsession went global by Adrian Duab
History
Lost Souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Politics
What's the Big Idea? edited by Anna Chang and Alice Grundy & Age of Doubt edited by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang
Letters
Expatriates of No Country: The letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene edited by Brigitta Olubas
by Brenda Niall
Poetry
At the Louvre: Poems by 100 contemporary world poets edited by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank and Donatien Grau
by Paul Kane
Music
The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem by Martha C. Nussbaum
by Paul Kildea
France
An Environmental History of France: Making the landscape, 1770-2020 by Peter McPhee
Ornithology
Enchantment by Birds: A history of birdwatching in 22 species by Russell McGregor
by Gregory Day
Biography
Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life by Jacqueline Kent and Tom Roberts
by Sam Elkin
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