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April 2018, no. 400

April 2018, no. 400

Welcome to the April 400th issue! Highlights include:

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Poetry

'The Boathouse' by Judith Beveridge

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Poetry

'Spring Idylls' by Gig Ryan

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Open Page

Open Page with Sarah Sentilles

Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Nathan Hollier

Poetry

Jill Jones reviews 'Interval' by Judith Bishop

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Everlasting Sunday' by Robert Lukins

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Literary Studies

Richard Walsh reviews 'What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing' edited by Peter Ginna

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Fiction

Brian Matthews reviews 'A Stolen Season' by Rodney Hall

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Classics

Julia Kindt reviews 'Mythos' by Stephen Fry

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True Crime

Anna MacDonald reviews 'A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean' by Gideon Haigh

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Politics

Rémy Davison reviews 'America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia–America alliance, 1940–1942' by James Prior

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Essay Collection

Johanna Leggatt reviews 'The Mother of all Questions: Further feminisms' by Rebecca Solnit

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Essay Collection

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick' edited by Darryl Pinckney

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Essay Collection

Sarah Holland-Batt reviews 'Feel Free: Essays' by Zadie Smith

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Letters

Felicity Plunkett reviews 'The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956' edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil

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Poem

'Inverting Hölderlin’s "Geh unter, schöne Sonne"' by John Kinsella

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Biography

Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'The Boy from Baradine' by Craig Emerson

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Biography

Simon Caterson reviews 'Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology' by Peter Hempenstall

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Biography

Geoffrey Blainey reviews 'Three Duties and Talleyrand’s Dictum: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat' by Alan Fewster

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Russia

Barbara Keys reviews 'Gorbachev: His life and times' by William Taubman

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - April 2018

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - April 2018

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Advances

Editorial on ABR's 400th issue by Peter Rose

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Commentary

'Odysseus and me' by Andrea Goldsmith

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Fiction

Ashley Hay reviews 'In the Garden of the Fugitives' by Ceridwen Dovey

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Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Death of Noah Glass' by Gail Jones

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Calibre Prize

2018 Calibre Essay Prize (Winner): 'We Three Hundred' by Lucas Grainger-Brown

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Anthropology

Kim Mahood reviews 'Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia' by Billy Griffiths

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Memoir

James Walter reviews 'John Curtin’s War: Volume I' by John Edwards

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Russian History

Sheila Fitzpatrick review 'Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution' by Ronald Grigor Suny

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Biography

Ian Donaldson reviews 'Simon Leys: Navigator between worlds' by Philippe Paquet, translated by Julie Rose

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Commentary

'Defying the moment' by Beejay Silcox

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Advances

400th issue subscriber giveaway

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Music

Anwen Crawford reviews 'Sticky Fingers: The life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine' by Joe Hagan

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Russia

Kieran Pender reviews 'The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past' by Shaun Walker

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Memoir

Neal Blewett reviews 'Not for the Faint-hearted' by Kevin Rudd

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Fiction

Gregory Day reviews 'Incredible Floridas' by Stephen Orr

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China

David Brophy reviews 'Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia' by Clive Hamilton

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