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April 2024, no. 463

April 2024, no. 463

This April ABR considers the importance of talk. In his cover essay, historian Frank Bongiorno argues that the Albanese government’s storytelling, not just its actions, directs the ‘possibilities of politics’. Sheila Fitzpatrick gives a moving portrait of her friendship with ‘recording angel’ Katerina Clark and G. Geltner pushes us to rethink our Middle-Ages chatter. Sascha Morrell comes around to the ‘winks and nudges’ in a major new biography of Frank Moorhouse and Frances Wilson insists Hilary Mantel will speak for herself in death. Glyn Davis tells us about a floating university and Morag Fraser puzzles over mothers. There’s Michael Hofmann on Nam Le’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, Stuart Kells on rogue corporations, and Robyn Arianrhod on the moon.

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Full Contents

Biography

Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths by Matthew Lamb

Politics

The New World Disorder: How the West is destroying itself by Peter R. Neumann, translated by David Shaw

Memoir

A Memoir of My Former Self: A life in writing by Hilary Mantel, edited by Nicholas Pearson

Fiction

No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton

Fiction

Tremor by Teju Cole

Fiction

We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain

Fiction

Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders

Fiction

Thunderhead by Miranda Darling

Poetry

Fat Chance: Journalism poems by Kent MacCarter

Essay Collection

The Pulling: Essays by Adele Dumont

Space

Our Moon: A human history by Rebecca Boyle

Art

Vincent Namatjira edited by Vincent Namatjira

Music

Pursuit of the New: Louise Hanson-Dyer, publisher and collector edited by Kerry Murphy and Jennifer Hill