Australian Book Review

March 2018, no. 399

March 2018, no. 399

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Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Rod Morrison

Essay Collection

ABR RAFT Fellowship: 'God and Caesar in Australia' by Paul Collins

by Paul Collins

Music

Ian Dickson reviews 'Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender' by Richard Davis

Photography

Kevin Rabalais reviews 'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson

by Kevin Rabalais

Photography

Helen Ennis reviews 'Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife' by Pamela Bannos

Classics

Greta Hawes reviews 'Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in Ancient Greece' by Julia Kindt

History

Kate Griffiths reviews 'Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' by James C. Scott

by Kate Griffiths

Memoir

Dennis Altman reviews 'Logical Family: A memoir' by Armistead Maupin

by Dennis Altman

Essay Collection

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays' edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas

by Susan Sheridan

Literary Studies

Paul Genoni reviews 'The Drover's Wife' edited by Frank Moorhouse

Fiction

Jill Jones reviews 'The Man Who Took To His Bed' by Alex Skovron

Fiction

James Bradley reviews 'Dyschronia' by Jennifer Mills

by James Bradley

Fiction

Susan Lever reviews 'Off the Record' by Craig Sherborne

Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Mrs M: An imagined history' by Luke Slattery

by Gillian Dooley

Fiction

Tali Lavi reviews 'The Tattooist Of Auschwitz' by Heather Morris

Fiction

Brenda Niall reviews 'The Shepherd’s Hut' by Tim Winton

by Brenda Niall

Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Lebs' by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2018 Porter Prize Shortlist

by Hidden Author

Poetry

David McCooey reviews 'Renga: 100 poems' by John Kinsella and Paul Kane

by David McCooey

Poetry

Bruce Moore reviews 'Beowulf' translated by Stephen Mitchell

Anthologies

Lucas Thompson reviews 'The Best Australian Essays 2017' edited by Anna Goldsworthy

by Lucas Thompson

Education

Kirk Graham reviews 'How To Be An Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all' by Inger Mewburn

Anthologies

The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

by Rachael Mead

International Studies

David Fettling reviews 'Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia' by Michael Vatikiotis

by David Fettling

Essay Collection

David Brophy reviews 'Without America: Australia in the New Asia' (Quarterly Essay 68) by Hugh White

by David Brophy

Indigenous Studies

Philip Jones reviews 'Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901' by Tim Rowse

by Philip Jones

Psychology

Nick Haslam reviews 'Freud: The making of an illusion' by Frederick Crews

Politics

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House' by Luke Harding

Politics

Barbara Keys reviews 'Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics' by Lawrence O’Donnell

by Barbara Keys

Politics

Natalie J. Doyle reviews 'Revolution' by Emmanuel Macron, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott and 'The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk' by Adam Plowright

by Natalie J. Doyle

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - March 2018

by Australian Book Review

Politics

Gideon Haigh reviews 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' by Michael Wolff

by Gideon Haigh

Australian History

Deborah Zion reviews 'Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian army' edited by Tom Frame and Albert Palazzo

by Deborah Zion

Shakespeare

David McInnis reviews 'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' by Rhodri Lewis

by David McInnis

Military History

Martin Crotty reviews 'Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle' by Jonathan King

by Martin Crotty

Classics

Christopher Allen reviews 'Palmyra: An irreplaceable treasure' by Paul Veyne, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

by Christopher Allen

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