ABR Index 2017
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2017.
2017 Book Review Index
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AARONS, Mark and John Grenville, The Show: Another side of Santmaria’s Movement, Scribe, 394/17, Lyndon Megarrity
ABBOTT, Sally, Closing Down, Hachette, 392/39, Piri Eddy
ADAMSON, Robert, Flute of Milk, UWA Publishing, 391/40, Geoff Page
AGIER, Michel, translated by David Fernbach, Borderlands: Towards an anthropology of the cosmopolitan condition, Polity, 388/10, Klaus Neumann
ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War, Penguin Classics, 396/60, Miriam Cosic
ALIZADEH, Ali, The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc, Giramondo, 395/21, Shannon Burns
ANDERSON, Jaynie, Christopher R. Marshall, and Andrew Yip (eds), The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics, Power Publications, 391/53, Andrew Fuhrmann
ANGEL, Libby, The Trapeze Act, Text Publishing, 390/34, Anna MacDonald
APTER, Jeff, A Pure Drop: The life and legacy of Jeff Buckley, Echo, 392/68, David Latham
ARMSTRONG, Judith, Dymphna, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 389/16, Brian Matthews
ASHLEY, Melissa, The Birdman’s Wife, Affirm Press, 388/63, Anna MacDonald
ATTWOOD, Bain, The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the Protectors, Monash University Publishing, 397/43, Amanda Nettelbeck
AUSTER, Paul, 4321, Faber & Faber, 390/29, Beejay Silcox
AUSTIN, Cassandra, All Fall Down, Hamish Hamilton, 391/49, Benjamin Chandler
BAIRD, Julia, Victoria: The woman who made the modern world, HarperCollins, 389/18, Margaret Harris
BARKAN, Leonard, Berlin for Jews: A twenty-first century companion, University of Chicago Press, 389/57, Andrea Goldsmith
BARNES, John, La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor, Halstead Press, online only, John Arnold
BATUMAN, Elif, The Idiot, Jonathan Cape, 391/31, Beejay Silcox
BAUM, Caroline, Only: A singular memoir, Allen & Unwin, 389/36, Gillian Dooley
BAXTER, Carol, The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller: An Australian’s true story of adventure, romance, danger and murder, Allen & Unwin, 391/47, Simon Caterson
BECK, Deborah, Rayner Hoff: The life of a sculptor, NewSouth, 396/46, Christopher Menz
BELLOS, David, The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Miserables, Particular Books, 391/29, Paul Kildea
BICKERS, Robert, Out of China: How the Chinese ended the era of Western domination, Allen Lane, online only, Andres Rodriguez
BIRCH, Tony, Common People, UQP, 394/14, Fiona Wright
BLACK, Maggie, Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, NewSouth, 388/16, John Arnold
BOSWORTH, R.J.B., Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover, Yale University Press, 392/53, Diana Glenn
BOYCE, James, Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry, Redback, 391/20, Michael Winkler
BOYLE, Peter, Ghostspeaking, Vagabond, 388/31, Kevin Brophy
BRADLEY, James, The Change Delivery: The silent invasion, Pan Australia, 390/34, Benjamin Chandler
BRAMSTON, Troy, Paul Keating: The big-picture leader, Scribe, 389/8, James Walter
BRANDI, Mark, Wimmera, Hachette, 395/32, Jay Daniel Thompson
BRENNAN, Bernadette, A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her work, Text Publishing, 391/13, Jan McGuinness
BRETT, Judith, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, Text Publishing, 394/8, John Rickard
BRODIE, Nick, The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain’s Tasmanian invasion, Hardie Grant Books, 394/32, Billy Griffiths
BROINOWSKI, Anna, Please Explain: The rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson, Viking, 397/11, Shaun Crowe
BROOKS, Peter, Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel and a terrible year, Basic Books, 397/42, Gemma Betros
BUCKRICH, Judith, The Political Is Personal: A 20th century memoir, Lauranton Books, 390/46, Suzy Freeman-Greene
BURNSIDE, Julian, Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice, Scribe, 396/61, John Eldridge
BURT, Stephen, The Poem Is You: 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them, Harvard University Press, 391/41, Benjamin Madden
CAHILL, Michelle, The Herring Lass, Arc Publications, 392/43, Rose Lucas
CAPP, Fiona, To Know My Crime, HarperCollins, 389/52, Gretchen Shirm
CAREY, Peter, A Long Way from Home, Hamish Hamilton, 396/26, Paul Giles
CARROLL, Steven, A New England Affair, Fourth Estate, 394/16, Patrick Allington
CASTAGNA, Felicity, No More Boats, Giramondo, 392/36, Donata Carrazza
CASTRO, Brian, Blindness and Rage: A phantasmagoria: A novel in thirty-four cantos, Giramondo, 394/40, Patrick Holland
CAUSER, Tim (ed.), Memorandoms by James Martin: An astonishing escape from early New South Wales, UCL Press, online only, James Dunk
CHAIT, Jonathan, Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail, Custom House, 392/12, Varun Ghosh
CHENG, Melanie, Australia Day, Text Publishing, 394/40, Johanna Leggatt
CLARKSON, Rebekah, Barking Dogs, Affirm Press, 389/52, Tali Lavi
CLEARY, Paul, Trillion Dollar Baby: How Norway beat the oil giants and won a lasting fortune, Black Inc., 388/54, Adrian Walsh
COETZEE, J.M., Late Essays 2006–2017, Knopf, 394/11, Sue Kossew
COLE, Teju, Blind Spot, Faber & Faber, 396/58, Louis Klee
COLE-ADAMS, Kate, Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness, Text Publishing, 393/43 Ceridwen Spark
COLEMAN, Claire G., Terra Nullius, Hachette, 397/60, Catherine Noske
COLLIE, Craig, Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks, Allen & Unwin, 392/55, Simon Caterson
COLLINI, Stefan, Speaking of Universities, Verso Books, 395/50, Robert Phiddian
COLLIS, Paul, Dancing Home, University of Queensland Press, 397/43, Jay Daniel Thompson
COLVIN, Mark, Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy’s son, Melbourne University Press, 389/29, Morag Fraser
CONRADI, Peter, Who Lost Russia? How the world entered a new cold war, OneWorld, 393/51, Iva Glisic
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, Whiteley on Trial, Melbourne University Press, 396/34, Johanna Leggatt
CRANE, Ralph, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams, The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950, OUP, 390/12, Paul Giles
CRIBB, Robert, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffen, Wild Man from Borneo: A cultural history of the orangutan, University of Hawai’i Press, 392/40, Danielle Clode
CRONE, J.H., Our Lady of the Fence Post, UWA Publishing, 388/59, Peter Kenneally
DALRYMPLE, Williams and Anita Anand, Koh-I-Noor: The history of the world’s most infamous diamond, Bloomsbury, 396/62, Claudia Hyles
DAPIN, Mark, Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military, New South, 394/49, Elisabeth Holdsworth
DAVIDSON, Jim, A Führer for a Father: The domestic face of colonialism, NewSouth, 394/34, Brian Matthews
DAWE, Bruce, Border Security, UWA Publishing, 388/59, Peter Kenneally
DE KRETSER, Michelle, The Life to Come, Allen & Unwin, 394/18, Beejay Silcox
DE SAINT PHALLE, Catherine, Poum and Alexandre: A Paris memoir, Transit Lounge, 388/59, Kate Ryan
DESSAIX, Robert, The Pleasures of Leisure, Knopf, 391/26, David McCooey
DIONNE Jr, E.J. and Joy-Ann Reid (eds), We Are The Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, Bloomsbury, 392/12, Varun Ghosh
DOLIN, Tim, Joanne Jones and Patricia Dowsett (eds), Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools since 1945, Monash University Publishing, 395/62, Ilana Snyder
DONNELLY, Catherine (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, 389/36, Christopher Menz
DOWER, John W., The Violent American Century: War and terror since World War II, Haymarket Books, 393/52, Alison Broinowski
DOWN, Jennifer, Pulse Points, Text Publishing, 392/13, Susan Midalia
DOWSE, Sara, As The Lonely Fly, For Pity Sake Publishers, 392/38, Tali Lavi
DU PREEZ, Michael and Jeremy Dronfield, Dr James Barry: A woman ahead of her time, 388/49, Oneworld Publications, James Dunk
EDESON, Robert, Bad to Worse, Fremantle Press, 397/62, Barry Reynolds
EDGAR, Patricia and Don Edgar, Peak: Reinventing middle age, Text Publishing, 390/20, Paul Morgan
EDGAR, Stephen, Transparencies, Black Pepper, 393/42, Geoff Page
EMMOTT, Bill, The Fate of the West: The battle to save the world’s most successful political idea, The Economist Books, 396/15, Mark Chou
ERRINGTON, Wayne and Peter van Onselen, The Turnbull Gamble, Melbourne University Press, 388/18, Lucas Grainger-Brown
EVANS, Gareth, Incorrigible Optimist: A political memoir, Melbourne University Press, 396/13, James Walter
FAHEY, Diane, A House By The River, Puncher & Wattmann, 392/45, Gig Ryan
FALUDI, Susan, In the Darkroom, William Collins, 388/11, Suzy Freeman-Greene
FARMER, Beverley, This Water: Five tales, Giramondo, 392/20, Anna MacDonald
FARR, Tracy, The Hope Fault, Fremantle Press, 394/53, Sonia Nair
FERGUSON, Robert, Scandinavians: In search of the soul of the North, Overlook Press, online only, Kári Gíslason
FINDER, Henry (ed.), The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a decade, William Heinemann, 389/21, Diana Bagnall
FINDLAY, Daniel, Year of the Orphan, Bantam, 391/18, Andrew Nette
FISCHER, Luke, A Personal History of Vision, UWA Publishing, 391/39, Geoff Page
FITZGERALD, Michael, The Pacific Room, Transit Lounge, 397/41, Gillian Dooley
FLANAGAN, Richard, First Person, Knopf, 396/27, James Ley
FLANNERY, Tim, Sunlight and Seaweed: An argument for how to feed, power, and clean up the world, Text Publishing, 395/26, Kate Griffiths
FORD, Richard, Between Them: remembering my parents, Bloomsbury, 392/25, Kevin Rabalais
FOX, Catherine, Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business, NewSouth, 394/20, Tali Lavi
FRANCIS, David, Wedding Bush Road, Brio Books, 389/35, Fiona Gruber
FRAZER, Brentley, Scoundrel Days: A memoir, University of Queensland Press , 389/36, Duncan Fardon
GEARTY, Conor, On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and human rights, OUP, 390/47, John Eldridge
GEERING, Ron (ed.), Christina Stead: A web of friendship, selected letters (1928-1973), Miegunyah Press, 391/38, Graeme Powell
GEMMELL, Nikki, After, Fourth Estate, 390/48, Gillian Dooley
GHOSH, Amitav, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, University of Chicago Press, 393/8, Tom Griffiths
GIORGI, Kyra, The Circle and the Equator, UWA Publishing, 393/24, David Latham
GOLDBLOOM, Goldie, Gwen, Fremantle Press, 389/33, Suzanne Falkiner
GONSALVES, Roanna, The Permanent Resident, UWA Publishing, 390/34, Sara Savage
GORMAN, Joe, The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, University of Queensland Press, 397/64, Ryan Cropp
GOTTLIEB, Anthony, The Dream of Enlightenment: The rise of modern philosophy, Allen Lane, 391/48, Tim Smartt
GRANT, Bruce, Subtle Moments: Scenes on a life’s journey, Monash University Publishing, 390/23, Alison Broinowski
GRAY, Jenny, Zoo Ethics: The challenges of compassionate conservation, CSIRO Publishing, 395/47, Matthew Chrulew
GRAYLING, A.C., The Age of Genius: The seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind, Bloomsbury, 388/50, Kristian Camilleri
GREEN, Charles, and Anthony Gardner, Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The exhibitions that created contemporary art, Wiley-Blackwell, 392/69, Sophie Knezic
GREEN, Michael et al. (ed.), They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention, Allen & Unwin, 391/18, Madeline Gleeson
GREENFIELD, Susan, A Day in the Life of the Brain: The neuroscience of consciousness from dawn till dusk, Allen Lane, 390/26, Nick Haslam
GRENVILLE, Kate, The Case Against Fragrance, Text Publishing, 390/22, Diana Bagnall
GRESTE, Peter, The First Casualty, Viking, 397/23, Kevin Foster
GYNGELL, Allan, Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942, La Trobe University Press/ Black Inc., 391/17, Frank Bongiorno
HAMILTON, Clive, Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene, Allen & Unwin, 395/41, Lauren Rickards
HANINK, Johanna, The Classical Debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity, Belknap Press, online only, Peter Acton
HASKELL, David George, The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors, Black Inc., 395/31, Roger McDonald
HASKELL, Molly, Steven Spielberg: A life in films, Yale University Press, 391/58, Jake Wilson
HAWKE, Bob with Derek Rielly, Wednesdays with Bob, Macmillan, 397/14, Richard Walsh
HAY, Ashley, A Hundred Small Lessons, Allen & Unwin, 391/34, Tessa Lunney
HAYES, Bill, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and me, Bloomsbury, 391/46, Suzy Freeman-Greene
HELM, Dieter, Burn Out: The end game for fossil fuels, Yale University Press, 395/46, Peter Christoff
HERRERA, Yuri, translated by Lisa Dillman, The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World, Text Publishing, 388/30, Gabriel García Ochoa
HEYMAN, Kathryn, Storm and Grace, Allen & Unwin, 389/34, Anna MacDonald
HIGGINS, Claire, Asylum by boat: Origins of Australia’s refugee policy, UNSW Press, 396/18, Klaus Neumann
HOCKING, Jenny (ed.), Making modern Australia: The Whitlam government’s 21st century agenda, Monash University Publishing, 396/19, Stephen Mills
HOCKING, Jenny, The Dismissal Dossier: everything you were never meant to know about November 1975, Melbourne University Press, 397/13, Frank Bongiorno
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2016, Black Inc., 389/44, John Hawke
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2017, Black Inc., 397/58, Gregory Day
HORNE, Nick (ed.), Donald Horne: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 393/14, Ryan Cropp
HORNUNG, Eva, The Last Garden, Text Publishing, 392/22, Bernadette Brennan
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, Like Nothing On This Earth: A literary history of the wheatbelt, 392/38, Delys Bird
HUNT, Bruce, Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880, Monash University Publishing, ONLINE, Seumas Spark
HUNT, Bruce, Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880, Monash University Publishing, ONLINE, Seumas Spark
HUSTVEDT, Siri, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on art, sex, and the mind, Sceptre, 388/55, Jennifer Levasseur
HYTNER, Nicholas, Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre, Jonathan Cape, 396/48, Brian McFarlane
INGS, Simon, Stalin and the Scientists: A history of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953, Faber & Faber, 390/35, Mark Edele
IRISH, Paul, Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney, NewSouth, 393/13, Alan Atkinson
JAMES, Jamie, The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the lost age of the exotics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 391/44, Paul Giles
JAMES, Karl, Double Diamonds: Australian commandos in the Pacific War 1941–45, NewSouth, 388/51, Kevin Foster
JANACZEWSKA, Noelle, The Book of Thistles, UWA Publishing, 397/39, Ceridwen Spark
JOHNSON, Judy, Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet, UWA Publishing, 391/40, Geoff Page
JOHNSON, Miranda, The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, law and the settler state, Oxford University Press, 391/42, Kevin Bell
JOHNSTON, Ian, The Souls of China: The return of religion after Mao, Allen Lane, 397/16, David Brophy
JONES, Rebecca, Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 395/24, Deb Anderson
JONES, Reece, Violent Borders: Refugees and the right to move, Verso, 388/8, Klaus Neumann
JOOSTEN, Melanie, Gravity Well, Scribe, 392/37, Naama Grey-Smith
JOSEPH, Sue, Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers, Hybrid Pulihsers, 390/48, Tali Lavi
JOY, Amanda, Snake Like Charms, UWA Publishing, 392/43, Rose Lucas
KAMINSKY, Leah, We’re All Going to Die, HarperCollins, 389/60, John Funder
KAY, Adam, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret diaries of a junior doctor, Picador, 397/40, James McNamara
KEFALA, Antigone, Fragments, Giramondo Poets, 392/45, Gig Ryan
KELADA, Odette, Drawing Sybylla, UWA Publishing, 397/61, Fiona Wright
KELLS, Stuart, The Library: A catalogue of wonders, Text Publishing, online only, Des Cowley
KEOGH, Paula, The Green Bell, Affirm Press, 389/52, Gig Ryan
KEVIN, Tony, Return to Moscow, UWA Publishing, 389/58, Nick Hordern
KIERNAN, Ben, Viet Nam: A history from earliest times to the present, OUP, 392/9, Robin Gerster
KIMBER, Gerri, Katherine Mansfield: The early years, Edinburgh University Press (NewSouth), 388/23, Ann-Marie Priest
KINSELLA, John and Tracy Ryan (eds), The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle Press, 390/38, Geoff Page
KINSELLA, John, Graphology Poems 1995–2015, Five Islands Press, 389/47, David McCooey
KINSELLA, John, Old Growth, Transit Lounge, 390/30, Brenda Walker
KIRCHICK, James, The End of Europe: Dictators, demagogues, and the coming Dark Age, Yale University Press, 394/19, Colin Wight
KISHTAINY, Niall, A Little History of Economics, Yale University Press, 394/42, Geoffrey Blainey
KOHLER, Sheila, Once We Were Sisters, Allen & Unwin, 393/19, Tali Lavi
KULIKOWSKI, Michael, Imperial Triumph: The Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine, Profile Books, 390/36, Christopher Allen
KURMELOVS, Royce, Rogue Nation: Despatches from Australia’s populist uprisings and outsider politics, Hachette, 397/11, Shaun Crowe
LAGUNA, Sofie, The Choke, Allen & Unwin, 394/12, James Ley
LAKE, Peter, How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and succession in the history plays, Yale University Press, 396/36, Robert S. White
LAMB, Jonathan, Scurvy: The disease of discovery, Princeton University Press, 390/14, Alan Atkinson
LAMOND, Julieanne (ed.), Australian Literary Studies, Australian Literary Studies, 390/45, Gillian Dooley
LANGFORD, Martin et al. (eds), Contemporary Australian Poetry, Puncher & Wattmann, 389/43, John Hawke
LATOUR, Bruno, translated by Catherine Porter, Facing Gaia: Eight lectures on the new climatic regime, Polity, 396/15, Kathrin Bartha
LAW, Benjamin, Moral Panic 101: Equality, acceptance and the Safe Schools scandal (Quarterly Essay 67), Black Inc.,397/44, Dan Dixon
LE CARRÉ, John, A Legacy of Spies, Viking, 395/64, Simon Caterson
LEUCHTENBERG, William E., The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, Oxford University Press, 394/46, Andrew Broertjes
LEVY, Ariel, The Rules Do Not Apply, Hachette, 396/32, Carol Middleton
LEWIS, Cassie, The Blue Decodes, Grand Parade Poets, 394/58, Joan Fleming
LONEY, Alan, Melbourne Journal: Notebooks: 1988–2003, UWA Publishing, 388/60, Peter Kenneally
LUCE, Edward, The retreat of Western Liberalism, Little, Brown, 396/15, Mark Chou
MACINTYRE, Stuart, Lenore Layman, and Jenny gregory, A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton, Monash University Publishing, 393/18, Wilfrid Prest
MACKLIN, Robert, Hamilton Hume: Our greatest explorer, Hachette, 390/48, Katy Gerner
MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Metronome, Giramondo, 391/24, Jill Jones
MALEY, William, What Is a Refugee?, Scribe, 388/8, Klaus Neumann
MANHIRE, Bill, Some Things to Place in a Coffin, Victoria University Press, 392/42, Paul Hetherington
MANNE, Robert, The Mind of the Islamic State, Redback, 392/52, Michael Winkler
MARR, David, The White Queen: One Nation and the politics of race (Quarterly Essay 65), Black Inc., 391/21, Lucas Grainger-Brown
MASSY, Charles, The Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture – a new Earth, University of Queensland Press, 395/44, Tim Flannery
MATHEWS, Race, Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria 1891–1966, Monash University Publishing, 392/50, John Rickard
MATTHEWS, Brian, Benaud: An appreciation, Text Publishing, 388/62, Varun Ghosh
MCCOOEY, David, Star Struck, UWA Publishing, 388/60, Peter Kenneally
MCCREDDEN, Lyn, The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and sacred, Sydney University Press, 392/23, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
MCDONALD, Neil, with Peter Brune, Valiant for Truth: The life of Chrster Wilmot, war correspondent, NewSouth, 390/27, Kevin Foster
McDONALD, Roger, A Sea-Chase, Vintage, 396/31, Brian Matthews
McGrath, Ann, Illicit Love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia, University of Nebraska Press, 390/16, Mark McKenna
MCGUIRE, M.E., Cynthia Nolan: A biography, Melbourne Books, 388/25, Jill Burton
MCKENNA, Mark, From the Edge: Australia’s lost histories, Melbourne University Press, 388/14, Michael Winkler
MCKINNON, Catherine, Storyland, Fourth Estate, 391/32, Doug Wallen
McKNIGHT, Harriet, Rain Birds, Black Inc., 395/31, Gretchen Shirm
MCLENNAN, Cathy, Saltwater, University of Queensland Press, 388/61, Sue Bond
MCMILLAN, Andrew, Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil, Hachette, 391/54, Gareth Hipwell
MCNAB, Duncan, Getting Away With Murder, Vintage Books, 389/55, Robert Reynolds
MENKHORST, Peter et al., The Australian Bird Guide, CSIRO Publishing, 395/49, Richard Noske
MILLER, Alex, The Passage of Love, Allen & Unwin, 396/23, Geordie Williamson
MILLIGAN, Louise, Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell, Melbourne University Press, 395/16, Barney Zwartz
MODIANO, Patrick, translated by Euan Cameron, So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood, Quercus, 394/37, Phoebe Weston-Evans
MONBIOT, George, How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, equality, nature, Vero, 393/21, David Schlosberg
MORRISON, Simon, Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today, Fourth Estate, 388/35, Lee Christofis
MULDOON, Paul, Selected Poems 1968–2014, Faber Poetry, 394/57, Anthony Lawrence
MURNANE, Gerald, Border Districts, Giramondo, 397/26, Beejay Silcox
MURRAY, Valerie, Flight From the Brothers Grimm: A European-Australian memoir, Books Unleashed, 389/54, Elisabeth Holdsworth
NEILL, Roger, Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and her pupils, NewSouth, 388/37, John Rickard
NGUYEN, Viet Thanh, The Refugees, Corsair, 390/32, Kerryn Goldsworthy
NIALL, Brenda, Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story, Text Publishing, 397/38, Susan Wyndham
NOWRA, Louis, Woolloomooloo: A biography, NewSouth, 391/27, Nicole Abadee
O’REILLY, Nathanael, New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham, UWA Publishing, 390/39, Susan Sheridan
O’ROURKE, P.J., How the Hell did this Happen? The election of 2016, Allen & Unwin, 391/9, James McNamara
ORR, Stephen, Datsunland, Wakefield Press, 392/35, Catherine Noske
PATERSON, Eddie, Redactor, Whitmore Press, 394/58, Joan Fleming
PATRIC, A.S., Atlantic Black, Transit Lounge, 397/29, Kerryn Goldsworthy
PENNY, Laurie, Bitch Doctrine: Essays for dissenting adults, Bloomsbury, 396/22, Suzy Freeman-Greene
PERIČIĆ, Marija, The Lost Pages, Allen & Unwin, 393/38, Shannon Burns
PERLOFF, Marjorie, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire, University of Chicago, 391/30, Shannon Burns
PERSIAN, Jayne, Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians, NewSouth, online only, Francesca Sasnaitis
PETTIFOR, Ann, The Production of Money: How to break the power of bankers, Verso, 392/54, Adrian Walsh
PIERCE, Brett, Beyond the Vapour Trail: The beauty, horror and humour of life: An aid worker’s story, Transit Lounge, 391/42, Katy Gerner
POLITES, Peter, Down the Hume, Hachette, 391/49, Crusader Hillis
PRENDERGAST, Christopher, (ed.), A history of Modern French Literature: From the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, Princeton University Press, 394/55, Colin Nettelbeck
PRESCOTT, Shaun, The Town, The Lifted Brow, 394/36, Shannon Burns
PRESSER, Bram, The Book of Dirt, Text Publishing, 396/30, Anna MacDonald
PURI, Anisa, and Alistair Thomson, Australian Lives: An intimate history, Monash University Publishing, 393/16, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
RABINOVICH, Itamar, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, leader, statesman, Yale University Press, 394/45, Danielle Celermajer
RABINYAN, Dorit, translated by Jessica Cohen, All The Rivers, Serpent’s Tail, online only, Ilana Snyder
RACHMAN, Gideon, Easternization: Asia’s rise and America’s decline: From Obama to Trump and beyond, Other Press, 397/47, David Fettling
RAWSON, Jane, From the Wreck, Transit Lounge , 390/31, Fiona Wright
REDFIELD JAMISON, Kay, Robert Lowell: Setting the river on fire: A study of genius, mania and character, Knopf, 394/52, Ian Dickson
RICE, Condoleezza, Democracy: Stories from the long road to freedom, Twelve, 393/22, Mark Chou
ROBERTSON, Eliza, Demi-Gods, Bloomsbury, 397/27, Felicity Plunkett
ROBERTSON, Peter, Radio Astronomers: John Bolton and a new window on the universe, NewSouth, 394/43, Robyn Williams
ROSE, Heather, The Museum of Modern Love, Allen & Unwin, 388/63, Duncan Fardon
ROY, Arundhati, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Hamish Hamilton, 392/18, Kerryn Goldsworthy
RUBIN SULEIMAN, Susan, The Némirovsky Question: The life, death and legacy of a Jewish writer in 20th-century France, Yale University Press, 391/15, Colin Nettelbeck
SAFRAN, John, Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going rogue with Australian deplorables, 392/26, Johanna Leggatt
SALA, Michael, The Restorer, Text Publishing, 390/33, Blanche Clarke
SANDERS, Jennifer (ed.), Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana fund, NewSouth, 397/71, John Thompson
SAUNDERS, George, Lincoln in the Bardo, Bloomsbury, 389/31, Beejay Silcox
SAYER, Mandy, Australian Gypsies: Their secret history, NewSouth, 397/46, Michael Winkler
SCHILLING, Heinz, translated by Rona Johnston, Martin Luther: Rebel in an age of upheaval, Oxford University Press, 396/10, Morag Fraser
SCHLINK, Bernhard, The Woman on the Stairs, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 389/30, Miriam Cosic
SCHMIDT, Sarah, See What I Have Done, Hachette, 391/49, Anna MacDonald
SCHULTZ, Julianne and Patrick Allington (eds), Griffith Review 55: State of hope, Griffith University/Text Publishing, 392/56, Robert Crocker
SCHWARZ, Alan, ADHD Nation: The disorder, the drugs, the inside story, Hachette, 388/46, Nick Haslam
SCOTT, Kim, Taboo, Picador, 393/35, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
SCRUTON, Roger, The Ring of Truth, Allen Lane, 388/45, Tim Byrne
SEBBA, Anne, Les Parisiennes: How the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 390/45, Colin Nettelbeck
SENTILLES, Sarah, Draw Your Weapons, Text Publishing, 393/11, Bernadette Brennan
SERONG, Jock, On the Java Ridge, Text Publishing, 393/36, Miriam Cosic
SHAMSIE, Kamila, Home Fire, Bloomsbury, 395/22, Nicole Abadee
SHIRM, Gretchen, Where the Light Falls, Allen & Unwin, 388/51, Josephine Taylor
SIGMAN, Mariano, The Secret Life of The Mind: How our brain thinks, feels and decides, Williams Collins, 394/44, Nick Haslam
SIMPSON, John, The Word Detective: A life in words, from serendipity to selfie, Little, Brown, 389/59, Bruce Moore
SISMAN, Adam (ed.), Dashing for the Post: The letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray, online only, Ian Britain
SMITH, Ali, Autumn, Hamish Hamilton, 388/27, Shannon Burns
SMITH, Pip, Half Wild, Allen & Unwin, 397/40, Anna MacDonald
SPARGO-RYAN, Anna, The Gulf, Picador, 394/39, Josephine Taylor
SPARROW, Jeff, No Way But This: In search of Paul Robeson, Scribe, 390/55, Andrew Fuhrmann
SPOTTS, Frederic, Cursed Legacy: The tragic life of Klaus Mann, Yale University Press (Footprint), 388/43, Evelyn Juers
SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce, Born to Run, Simon & Schuster, 389/66, Varun Ghosh
STEDMAN JONES, Gareth, Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion, Allen Lane, 389/14, Sujatha Fernandes
STEINER, George and Laure Adler, A Long Saturday: Conversations, University of Chicago Press, 397/63, Andrew Fuhrmann
STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ, Seth, Everybody Lies: What the internet can tell us about who we really are, Bloomsbury, 396/21, Kirk Graham
STOCKINGS, Craig and John Connor (eds), The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth, 394/48, Seumas Spark
STOURTON, James, Kenneth Clark: Life, art and civilization, HarperCollins, 390/56, Patrick McCaughey
SYME, Rodney, Time to Die, Melbourne University Publishing, 390/19, Deborah Zion
TAIBBI, Matt, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, Penguin, 391/9, James McNamara
TAMPKE, Jürgen, A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles peace treaty and the success of the Nazis, Scribe, 392/22, Miriam Cosic
TAN, Elizabeth, Rubik, Brio, 369/29, Cassandra Atherton
TAPLIN, Jonathan, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy, Macmillan, online only, Joel Deane
TAYLOR JOHNSON, Heather, Jean Harley Was Here, University of Queensland Press, 391/33, Anna Spargo-Ryan
TAYLOR, Cheryl (ed.), Thea Astley: Selected poems, University of Queensland Press, 396/59, Susan Sheridan
TAYLOR, Rebe, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity, Melbourne University Press, 391/22, Philip Jones
THAROOR, Shashi, Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India, Scribe, 395/61, Mridula Nath Chakraborty
THOMSON, David, Television: A biography, Thames & Hudson, 389/71, James McNamara
TIFFEN, Rodney, Disposable Leaders: Media and leadership coups from Menzies to Abbott, NewSouth, 390/24, Dennis Altman
TÓIBÍN, Colm, House of Names, Picador, 393/34, Robert Dessaix
TONKIN, Maggie, Fifty: Half a century of Australian dance theatre, Wakefield Press, online only, Lee Christofis
TOVEY, Noel, And Then I Found Me, Magabala Books, 391/45, Dennis Altman
TRENTMANN, Frank, Empire of Things: How we became a world of consumers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first, Allen Lane, 388/47, Benjamin Madden
TRÜMPI, Fritz, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg, The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich, University of Chicago Press, 392/67, Michael Morley
TRUONG, Marcelino, translated by David Homel, Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961 – 63, NewSouth, 392/51, Dilan Gunawardana
TYNAN, Elizabeth, Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story, NewSouth, 389/23, Danielle Clode
VAROUFAKIS, Yanis, Adults in the Room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment, The Bodley Head, 393/24, Simon Tormey
WALSH, Richard, Reboot: A democracy makeover to empower Australia’s voters, Melbourne University Press, 394/33, Shaun Crowe
WATSON, Anne, the Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House, OpusSOH, 396/47, Andrew Montana
WATSON, Don (compiler), A Single Tree: Voices from the bush, Hamish Hamilton, 388/13, Angelo Loukakis
WATT, Paul, Ernest Newman: A critical biography, The Boydell Press, 396/44, Michael Shmith
WEARNE, Alan, These Things Are Real, Giramondo, 397/59, Peter Kenneally
WEBB, Robert, How Not To Be A Boy, Canongate, 397/40, James McNamara
WHISH-WILSON, David, Old Scores, Fremantle Press, 388/63, Dean Biron
WHITE, R.S., Shakespeare’s Cinema of Love: A study in genre and influence, Manchester University Press, 392/63, David McInnis
WILLIAMS, Mark (ed.), A History of New Zealand Literature, Cambridge University Press, 390/10, Elizabeth McMahon
WILLIAMSON, Geordie (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2016, Black Inc., 389/22, Glyn Davis
WILSON, A.N., Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker, John Murray, 397/22, Danielle Clode
WILSON, Josephine, Extinctions, UWA Publishing, 388/28, Gillian Dooley
WINDSOR, Gerard, The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today, NewSouth, 390/21, Michael McGirr
WOHLLEBEN, Peter, translated by Jane Billinghurst, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, grief and compassion – surprising observations of a hidden world, Bodley Head, online only, Ben Brooker
WOMERSLEY, Chris, City of Crows, Picador, 395/63, David Whish-Wilson
WOOD, Charlotte (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2016, Black Inc., 388/26, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WOOLFE, Sue, Do You Love Me Or What?, Simon & Schuster, 389/32, Jane Sullivan
YOUNG, Ashleigh, Can You Tolerate This?:Personal essays, Giramondo, 394/56, Mark Williams
ZIEGLER, Edith M. (ed.), Darling Mother, Darling Son: The letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972, NewSouth and Sydney Living Museums, online only, John Thompson
ZISIN, Nevo, Finding Nevo, Black Dog Books, 392/50, Crusader Hillis
2017 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here
Arts commentary
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘A win for Namatjira’, 397/72
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘The Copyright of Albert Namatjira’, 390/18
SHMITH, Michael, Why I Quit as Opera Critic of The Age, online only
Dance
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (The Australian Ballet), 395/71
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Woolf Works and a Winter’s Tale (The Royal Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Lord of the Flies (New Adventures/Re:Bourne), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Faster (The Australian Ballet), online only
Festivals
BROOKER, Ben, The Sound of Falling Stars (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), 393/71
COWLEY, Des, 2017 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues (Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues), online only
COWLEY, Des, 2017 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF), online only
COWLEY, Des, Jazz Greats Weekend at Monash (Monash Academy of Performing Arts), online only
GRUBER, Fiona, The Age of Bones (AsiaTOPA), 390/63
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Satan Jawa (AsiaTOPA), 390/61
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, 2017 Melbourne Festival (Melbourne Festival), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Dark Mofo (MONA), online only
MORLEY, Michael, Adelaide Festival, 390/51
Film
BYRNE, Tim, Lion (Transmission Films), 389/67
BYRNE, Tim, Silence (Transmission), 390/58
CRAWFORD, Anwen, A Quiet Passion (Palace Films), 393/67
CRAWFORD, Anwen, A United Kingdom (Transmission Films), 388/42
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Berlin Syndrome (Entertainment One), 391/56
CRAWFORD, Anwen, God’s Own Country (Rialto Distribution), 395/66
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Manchester by the Sea (Universal Pictures),390/60
CRAWFORD, Anwen, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Madman Films), 397/70
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Things to Come (Palace Films), 392/64
DUNK, James, Land of Mine (Palace Films), 391/60
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Denial (Entertainment One), 391/59
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Disaster Artist (Roadshow Films), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Wonder Wheel (Entertainment One), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Three Summers (Transmission Films), online only
KAGAN, Dion, Tom of Finland (Palace Films), online only
MCFARLANE, Brian, My Cousin Rachel (Fox Searchlight), online only
MENEGHELLO, Nadia, The Sense of an Ending (Roadshow Films), online only
MONAGHAN, Whitney, Moonlight (Roadshow Films), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Jasper Jones (Madman Films), 389/68
OCHOA, Gabriel Garcia, Neruda (Palace Films), online only
SASNAITIS, Francesca, On Chesil Beach (Palace Cinemas), 397/67
SASNAITIS, Francesca, Song to Song (Roadshow Films), 396/71
SASNAITIS, Francesca, The King’s Choice (Palace Films), 394/67
SEPEHRI, Darius, Loving Vincent (Madman Entertainment), online only
SILCOX, Beejay, I Am Not Your Negro (Madman Entertainment), 396/69
SMITH, Barnaby, Namatjira Project (Umbrella Entertainment), 395/67
SMITH, Barnaby, Whiteley (Transmission Films), 392/58
WILSON, Jake, The Lost City of Z (StudioCanal), 394/63
WINDSOR, Harry, Suburbicon (Roadshow Films), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, Blade Runner 2049 (Sony Pictures), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, Mother! (Paramount Pictures), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, A Monster Calls (Entertainment One), online only
Music
BARMBY, David, Turangalîla-Symphonie (Australian World Orchestra), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Que Reste t’il (Arts Centre Melbourne), online only
COWLEY, Des, Travelling Tales (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, The Usefulness of Art (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
FRASER, Morag, Das Lied von der Erde (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), 393/62
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Long String Instrument (The Substation and Liquid Architecture), online only
LARKIN, David, Hong Kong Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden (Hong Kong Philharmonic), online only
LARKIN, David, András Schiff: ‘The Last Sonatas’ (Kajimoto), online only
MENZ, Christopher, Angela Hewitt (Musica Viva), 392/66
ROSE, Peter, Maxim Vengerov (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), 390/60
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Rachel Podger and the OAE (Musica Viva), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Sibelius & Mahler (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Yuja Wang plays Beethoven (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltán, Pelléas et Mélisande (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Maria Callas Live (Warner Classics Erato), online only
Opera
ALLISON, John, Otello (Royal Opera House), online only
APPLEBY, Rosalind, Lucia di Lammermoor (WA Opera), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Norma (Metropolitan Opera), online only
DICKSON, Ian, The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera / Victorian Opera), online only
DOOLEY, Gillian, Eugene Onegin/Orpheus Underground (Co-Opera/Various People Inc), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Hamlet (Glyndebourne Opera), 393/63
HALLIWELL, Michael, Coronation of Poppea (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, La Bohème (Opera Australia), online only
HOLDSWORTH, Rob, Roberto Devereux (Melbourne Opera), online only
JACKSON, Alastair, Cav-and-Pag (Opera Australia), 392/61
JACKSON, Alastair, La Bohème and Die Zauberflote (Royal Opera House), online only
JACKSON, Alastair, Cunning Little Vixen (Victorian Opera), online only
LARKIN, David, King Roger (Opera Australia), 389/69
MENZ, Christopher, Parsifal (Opera Australia), 394/60
ROSE, Peter, De Ring des Nibelungen (Opera Australia), 388/39
ROSE, Peter, Thaïs (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Thais (Opera Australia), online only
ROSE, Peter, La Sonnambula (Victorian Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Tis Pity (Victorian Opera), online only
Television and Games
FLYNN, Chris, Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Entertainment), 391/61
FLYNN, Chris, The Walking Dead: A new frontier (Telltale Games), 391/61
FLYNN, Chris, What Remains of Edith Finch / Little Nightmares (Giant Sparrow / Tarsier Games), online only
MCNAMARA, James, The Crown (Netflix), 388/38
Theatre
BRENNAN, Bernadette, The Testament of Mary (Sydney Theatre Company), 389/62
BROOKER, Ben, 1984 (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 392/70
BROOKER, Ben, Macbeth (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 395/70
BYRNE, Tim, Merrily We Roll Along (Watch This), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Shrine (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Awakening (MUST/fortyfivedownstairs), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company), 390/59
DICKSON, Ian, Cloud Nine (Sydney Theatre Company), 393/68
DICKSON, Ian, Ghosts (Belvoir St Theatre), 396/68
DICKSON, Ian, The Bleeding Tree (Sydney Theatre Company), 391/55
DICKSON, Ian, Three Sisters (Sydney Theatre Company), 397/66
DICKSON, Ian, Kindertransport (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, This Much Is True (Red Line Productions), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Mark Colvin’s Kidney (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Away (Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, John (Melbourne Theatre Company), 390/62
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Shakespeare: The complete works (Decca), 389/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, The Real and Imagined History of Elephant Man (Malthouse Theatre Company), 394/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Three Little Words (Melbourne Theatre Company), 392/65
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Waiting for Godot (Wits' End / Eleventh Hour Theatre), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Macbeth (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Little Emperors (Malthouse Theatre), online only
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, The Merchant of Venice (Bell Shakespeare), 394/61
GRUBER, Fiona, American Song (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 396/67
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, Trainspotting (In Your Face Theatre), 391/57
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, A Trip to Spain (Madman Entertainment), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Woyzeck in Winter (Landmark Productions / Galway International Arts Festival), online only
LEA, Bronwyn, Noises Off (Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company), 393/70
LEA, Bronwyn, Scenes from a Marriage (Queensland Theatre), 397/69
LEVER, Susan, Richard 3 (Bell Shakespeare), 390/50
LEVER, Susan, The Father (Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company), 395/68
LEVER, Susan, Muriel's Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures), online only
MCLEOD, Andrew, Apologia (Trafalgar Studios), online only
MIDDLETON, Carol, Minnie & Liraz (Melbourne Theatre Company), 392/71
ROSE, Peter, L'amante anglaise by Marguerite Duras (La Mama Theatre and fortyfivedownstairs), online only
ROSS, Dina, The Realistic Joneses (Red Stitch), online only
SULLIVAN, Jane, Ink, 394/65
VAN SCHILT, Stephanie, Ladies in Black (Queensland Theatre), online only
Visual Arts
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Letter From Paris (Centre Pompidou, Museum of Art and History of Judaism, Palais Garnier), 390/53
CLARK, Jane, Not As The Songs of Other Lands (Ian Potter Museum of Art), 391/63
ENNIS, Helen, Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium (Art Gallery of NSW), online only
GASCOIGNE, Hester, Nude: Art from the Tate collection (Art Gallery of NSW), online only
GRANT, Sally, On Country (The Metropolitan Museum), 396/65
HILL, Peter, Van Gogh and the Seasons (National Gallery of Victoria), 392/59
KNEZIC, Sophie, Del Kathryn Barton, Louise Paramor, Helen Maudsley, and Gareth Sansom (NGV Australia), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Philippe Parreno: Thenabouts (ACMI), online only
MARTIN-CHEW, Louise, Gerhard Richter: The life of images (QAGOMA), online only
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, Giacometti (Tate Modern), 393/66
MENZ, Christopher, Versailles: Treasures from the Palace and A History of the World in 100 Objects (National Gallery of Australia and National Museum of Australia), 388/33
MENZ, Christopher, On the Origin of Art (MONA), 398/63
SASNAITIS, Francesca, In Cahoots: artists collaborate across Country (Fremantle Arts Centre), online only
SHMITH, Michael, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics (Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal Opera House), online only
ZDANOWICZ, Irena, Fred Williams in the You Yangs (Geelong Gallery), 396/64
Commentary
EDELE, Mark, ‘A century after 1917: Why should you care about the Russian Revolution?’, 395/10
FRASER, Morag, ‘The irreplaceable: A tribute to John Clarke (1948–2017)’, 391/52
JONES, Philip, ‘Among the Trees’, 395/33
MCKIBBIN, Ross, ‘Whatever it takes: A chronicle of failure and deceit in the Chilcot Report’, 389/11
OCHOA, Gabriel García, ‘The City of Palaces’, 388/20
PENDER, Kieran, ‘When sport and politics collide’, 397/19
REID, Susan, ‘Adani and the Galilee Basin’, 395/29
ROSE, Peter, ‘The same-sex marriage debate’, 394/2
ROSE, Peter, ‘Victory for marriage-equality’, 396/9
WESTON-EVANS, Phoebe, ‘Letter from Paris’, 392/15
WINTER, Jay, ‘Inga Clendinnen: An Appreciation’, 389/24
Fellowships
HOLDSWORTH, Elisabeth, ‘If This Is a Jew: Progressive Judaism around the world’, 396/49
JOHNSON, Marguerite, ‘Picnic and Hanging Rock fifty years on’, ABR Gender Fellowship Essay, 397/49
JONES, Philip, ‘Beyond Songlines’, ABR Patrons’ Fellowship Essay, 394/21
ORR, Stephen, ‘Ambassadors from Another Time’, ABR Eucalypt Fellowship Essay, 395/52
Fiction
ALVER, Stevi-Lee, ‘Contributory Negligence’, online only
GETHINS, Marie, ‘The Fog Harvester’, online only
CHIDGEY, Catherine, ‘The Man I Should Have Married’, online only
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ADAMS, Michael, ‘Salt Blood’, 392/27
SEPEHRI, Darius, ‘To Speak of Sorrow’, 393/53
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
DZERIGIAN, Ronald ‘Four Egrets’, 389/38
KLEE, Louis, ‘Sentence to Lilacs’, 389/41
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Laika’, 389/39
O’BRIEN, Damen, ‘pH’, 389/42
PHILLIPS, Michael Lee, ‘Drone’, 389/37
SAUNDERS, Jen, ‘The Snow Lies Deep’, 389/38
TU, Jessie, ‘and it is what it is’, 389/40
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
AMERENA, Dominic, ‘The Leaching Layer’, 393/27
CURTIS, Lauren Aimee, ‘Butter’, 393/39
ROBERTSON, Eliza, ‘Pheidippides’, 393/44
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
ADLER, Louise, 393/65
GALASSI, Jonathan, 389/72
HEYWARD, Michael, 388/53
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 391/50
ROSENBLOOM, Henry, 392/49
WALSH, Richard, 394/68
Open Page
DAY, Gregory, 393/72
HAY, Ashley, 390/64
MAHOOD, Kim, 388/64
McDONALD, Roger, 396/72
NOWRA, Louis, 391/64
WILSON, Josephine, 395/72
Poet of the Month
HETHERINGTON, Paul, 390/40
LEA, Bronwyn, 389/46
Critic of the Month
FRASER, Morag, 392/72
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 390/28
Poetry
Poems
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The New Maps Keep a Weather Eye’, 395/27
BRIGLEY THOMPSON, Zoe, ‘Swan’, 397/48
DEWALD, Jay, ‘[sanctum sanctorum our windowless attic...]’, 393/26
DEWEESE, Christopher, ‘I was the greatest art potter’, 391/43
DOUGAN, Lucy, ‘Art Detective’, 394/41
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Liked In Prison’, 392/17
FLEMING, Joan, ‘Imprints of Water’, 396/35
HETHERINGTON, Paul, ‘Ship’, 390/17
KOCHER, Shari, ‘Back Door with Snow’, 392/62
LEA, Bronwyn, ‘Zeitgeist’, 391/19
MEAD, Philip, ‘Ithaca Road’, 397/24
ROSE, Peter, ‘Attention, Please’, 395/19
WELSON, Annamaria, ‘ghost flock’, 396/24
ZWICKY, Fay, ‘Little Fly’, 393/15
States of Poetry
NB the poems listed below are a selection from the States of Poetry anthologies which appeared in print. The complete anthologies can be found and read online here: Series One and Series Two
BARNES, Stuart, ‘Black Cockatoos’, 388/57
BOBIS, Merlinda, ‘Lucy afloat’, 392/48
BROCK, Steve, ‘dreaming with Ted Berrigan’, 389/50
CRONIN, MTC, ‘The World’s Yard’, 388/57
EBERHARD, Adrienne, ‘kangaroo grass’, 390/42
FOGARTY, Lionel, ‘Jealousy of the Undertow/Tombstone’, 388/56
FOULCHER, John, ‘Mark, Pauline and Me’, 392/48
HETHERINGTON, Graeme, ‘Bill and Gwen’, 390/43
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah ‘Lapis Lazuli/Sketches from the Nile’, 388/57
KENNEALLY, Cath, ‘A Rich Full Life’, 389/50,
KNIGHT, Karen, ‘Where am I?’, 390/43
LEIGH KOCH, Jules, ‘Eulogy’, 389/51
NICHOLAS, Louise, ‘Roget’s Thesaurus’, 389/51
OWEN, Jan, ‘String says’, 389/50
OXLEY, Louise, ‘Reply from the Women of Tangier’, 390/41
PAGE, Geoff, ‘Patriotism’, 392/47
REED-GILBERT, Kerry, ‘Wiradjuri country’, 392/47
SHEPHERDSON, Nathan, ‘statements to forget when remembered’, 388/58
SMITH, Melinda, ‘What you get when you search for silence’, 392/46
SYMES, Dominic, ‘Poem for A’, 389/49
THORNE, Tim, ‘Waking’, 390/42
UNIKOWSKI, Isi, ‘Still Life’, 392/48
VAN NEERVEN, Ellen, ‘Chips’, 388/56
WILLIAMS, Jane, ‘On World Heart Day’, 390/44
Reading Australia
NB all the essays published as part of ABR's collaboration with Reading Australia can be read here
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, ‘Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, 391/35
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ALLISON, John, 396/38
APPLEBY, Rosalind, 396/38
ARCHER, Robyn, 396/38
BROOKER, Ben, 396/38
BYRNE, Tim, 396/38
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 396/38
COWLEY, Des, 396/38
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 396/38
DICKSON, Ian, 396/38
FORD, Andrew, 396/38
FRASER, Morag, 396/38
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 396/38
GRYBOWSKI, Tony, 396/38
HALLIWELL, Michael, 396/38
LEVER, Susan, 396/38
MCFARLANE, Brian, 396/38
MENZ, Christopher, 396/38
ROSE, Peter, 396/38
SCHOFIELD, Leo, 396/38
SHMITH, Michael, 396/38
SIMMONDS, Diana, 396/38
SZABO, Zoltan, 396/38
WILLIAMS, Kim , 396/38
WINDSOR, Harry, 396/38
YEOMAN, Will, 396/38
ZWARTZ, Barney, 396/38
Books of the Year
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 397/30
BONGIORNO, Frank, 397/30
BRENNAN, Bernadette, 397/30
BURNS, Shannon, 397/30
DAVIS, Glyn, 397/30
DAY, Gregory, 397/30
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 397/30
EDELE, Mark, 397/30
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 397/30
FRASER, Morag, 397/30
FREEMAN-GREENE, Suzy, 397/30
GILES, Paul, 397/30
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn , 397/30
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 397/30
HAWKE, John, 397/30
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 397/30
HUGHES-D'AETH, Tony, 397/30
HUHRMANN, Andrew, 397/30
JONES, Jill, 397/30
JOSE, Nicholas , 397/30
LAKE, Marilyn, 397/30
LEA, Bronwyn, 397/30
LEY, James, 397/30
MACDONALD, Anna , 397/30
MCCOOEY, David, 397/30
MCNAMARA, James, 397/30
NIALL, Brenda, 397/30
NOSKE, Catherine, 397/30
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 397/30
SHERIDAN, Susan, 397/30
SILCOX, Beejay, 397/30
SULLIVAN, Jane, 397/30
WALTER, James, 397/30
WEBB, Jen, 397/30
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 397/30
WRIGHT, Fiona, 397/30
WYNDHAM, Susan, 397/30
Environment Issue
ADAMS, Michael, 395/42
ATKINSON, Alan, 395/42
BRADLEY, James, 395/42
CLODE, Danielle, 395/42
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie, 395/42
GAYNOR, Andrea, 395/42
HAY, Ashley, 395/42
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 395/42
HUGES-D'AETH, Tony, 395/42
JONES, Philip, 395/42
KARSKENS, Grace, 395/42
KINSELLA, John, 395/42
MAHOOD, Kim, 395/42
SCOTT, Kim, 395/42
TAYLOR, Rebe, 395/42
THOMAS, Martin, 395/42