Indexes (36)
Index for 2024: Nos 461–171 & online features
ABR Index 2024
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2023
2024 Australian Book Review Index
ADAMSON, Robert (edited by Devin Johnston), Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury, Upswell, 464/51, Simon West
AKHURST, Graham, Borderland, UWAP, 461/43, Julie Janson
ALIZZI, Arlie, and Penny Craswell, Sam Elkin, Liz Gooch, Dan Jervis-Bardy, Claire Keenan, Wing Kuang, Esther Linder, and Hessom Razavi, Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede anthology, Vintage, 466/34, Theodore Ell
ALLSOP, Sharlene, The Great Undoing, Ultimo Press, 462/39, James Bradley
ANDERSON, Fay, The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and reckoning, Palgrave Macmillan, 470/44, Ruth Balint
ANDERSON, Warwick, Spectacles of Waste, Polity, 471/59, Nick Haslam
ARNOTT, Robbie, Dusk, Picador, 469/29, Shannon Burns
ARRINGTON, Lauren, and Matthew Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats, Oxford University Press, 466/50, Jeremy George
BAGGOT, Jim and John L. Heilbron, Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein debate to the riddle of entanglement, OUP, 464/18, Robyn Arianrhod
BAKER, Mark Raphael, A Season of Death: A memoir, Melbourne University Press, 471/10, Kate McFadyen
BEARD, Mary, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world, Profile Books, 462/52, Miles Pattenden
BEECHER, Eric, The Men Who Killed the New: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy, Scribner, 469/13, Bridget Griffen-Foley
BENTON, Lauren, They Called It Peace: Worlds of imperial violence, Princeton University Press, 468/53, Jeremy Martens
BERESFORD, Quentin, Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business, NewSouth, 463/39, Stuart Kells
BETIGERI, Aarti, Growing up Indian in Australia, Black Inc., 468/56, Claudia Hyles
BEVERIDGE, Judith, Tintinnabulum: New poems, Giramondo, 467/60, David McCooey
BIRCH, Tony, On Kim Scott: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 464/15, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
BISHOP, Judith, Circadia, University of Queensland Press, 466/47, Anders Villani
BLAIN, Georgia, We All Lived in Bondi Then, Scribe, 463/32, Anthony Lynch
BLAINE, Lech, Australian Gospel: A family saga, Black Inc., 471/13, Michael Winkler
BLAINE, Lech, Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics (Quarterly Essay 93), Black Inc., 464/11, Patrick Mullins
BLOCH, Sidney and Nick Haslam, Troubled Minds: Understanding and treating mental illness, Scribe, 464/53, Jennifer Harrison
BORNSTEIN, Josh, Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroying free speech, Scribe, 470/26, Kieran Pender
BOUCHER, Leigh, and Michelle Arrow, Barbara Baird, Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 467/12, Zora Simic
BOYLE, Rebecca, Our Moon: A human history, Sceptre, 463/48, Robyn Arianrhod
BRADLEY, James, Deep Water: The world in the ocean, Hamish Hamilton, 464/16, Felicity Plunkett
BRENNAN, Frank, Lessons from Our Failure to Build a Constitutional Bridge in the 2023 Referendum, Connor Court Publishing, 468/14, Dominic Kelly
BROOKS, David, The Other Side of Daylight: New and selected poems, UQP, 464/46, John Hawke
BROWN, Amy, My Brilliant Sister, Scribner, 462/40, Suzanne Falkiner
BROWN, Craig, A Voyage Around the Queen, Fourth Estate, 470/55, Frances Wilson
BROWNING, Gary, Iris Murdoch and the Political, Oxford University Press, 470/58, Gillian Dooley
BRUMBY, John, HAMILTON, Scott and KELLS, Stuart, A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform, Melbourne University Press, 470/18, Frank Bongiorno
BRYANT, Nick, The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself, Viking, 466/13, Timothy J. Lynch
BYRNE, Paula, Hardy Women: Mothers, sisters, wives, muses, William Collins, 469/47, Tim Dolin
CAREY, Gabrielle, James Joyce, Arden, 461/21, Ronan McDonald
CARR, Gilly and Rachel Pistol, British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage, Bloomsbury Academic, 462/54, Seamus Spark
CASTRO, Brian, Chinese Postman, Giramondo, 469/30, Michael Winkler
CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand, War, 467/32, New Directions, David Jack
CHANDRAN, Shankari, Safe Haven, Ultimo Press, 465/29, Patrick Allington
CHAPPELL, Sophie Grace, Trans Figured: On being a transgender person in a cisgender world, Polity, 466/58, Jack Nicholls
CHATER, Lauren, The Beauties, Simon & Schuster, 466/33, A. Frances Johnson
CHILDERS, Christopher, The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, Penguin Classics, 470/45, Alastair J.L. Blanshard
CHINNA, Nandi and Anne Poelina, Tossed up by the Beak of a Cormorant, Fremantle Press, 466/45, Robert Wood
CLEARY, Simon, Everything Is Water, University of Queensland Press, 467/14, Danielle Clode
CLIFT, Charmian, The End of the Morning, NewSouth, 464/27, Susan Sheridan
CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections of life, love, and liberty, Simon & Schuster, 471/50, Allan Behm
COATES, Donna, Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australia women’s war fiction, Sydney University Press, 462/30, Sue Kossew
COLE, Catherine, Slipstream: On memory and migration, Valley Press, 462/56, Susan Sheridan
COLE, Teju, Tremor, Faber, 463/31, Andrew van der Vlies
COLLINS, Courtney, Bird, 467/28, Hachette, Laura Elizaeth Woollett
CREELY, Amanda, Nameless, UWA Publishing, 466/27, Patrick Allington
CUSK, Rachel, Parade, Faber, 467/27, Faber, Kirsten Tranter
DALRYMPLE, William, The Golden Road: How ancient India transformed the world, Bloomsbury, 469/21, Marike Vicziany
DARLING, Miranda, Thunderhead, Scribe, 463/34, Cassandra Atherton
DARNTON, Robert, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, Allen Lane, 464/37, Peter McPhee
DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard, History in the House: Some remarkable dons and the teaching of politics, character and statecraft, William Collins, 468/50, Glyn Davis
DAY, David, Young Hawke: The making of a larrakin, HarperCollins, 468/12, Patrick Mullins
DE BASTION, Roxanne, The Piano Player of Budapest, Robinson, 468/57, Paul Kildea
DE KRETSER, Michelle, Theory & Practice, Text, 470/33, Nicole Abadee
DE TORES, Francesca, Saltblood, Bloomsbury, 466/28, Rose Lucas
DENCH, Judi with Brendan O’Hea, Shakespeare: The man who pays the rent, Michael Joseph, 461/23, Carol Middleton
DEVENPORT, Rhana, AGSA 500, Art Gallery of South Australia, 465/37, Patrick Flanery
DOVEY, Ceridwen, Only the Astronauts, Hamish Hamilton, 465/24, Diane Stubbings
DOW, Aisha and Melissa Cuningham, Life As We Knew It: The extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic, Scribe, 461/18, Ben Brooker
DOWNES, Stephen, Mural, Transit Lounge, 471/42, Jane Sullivan
DUMONT, Adele, The Pulling: Essays, Scribe, 463/47, Anwen Crawford
DYCK, Erika and Chris Elcock, Expanding Mindscapes: A global history of psychedelics, MIT Press, 463/52, Ben Brooker
EASSON, Michael, In Search of John Christian Watson: Labor’s first prime minister, Connor Court Publishing, 469/55, Lyndon Megarrity
EASTON, Max, Paradise Estate, Giramondo, 461/39, Morgan Nunan
EDGAR, Stephen, Ghosts of Paradise, Pitt Street Poetry, 462/46, David McCooey
EDWARDS, Astrid, The Asking: New and selected poems, Bloodaxe Books, 465/53, Felicity Plunkett
EILENBERGER, Wolfram (translated by Shaun Whiteside), The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy, Allen Lane, 462/24, Frances Wilson
ELL, Theodore, Lebanon Days: Memories of an ancient land through economic meltdown, a revolution of hope and surviving the 2020 Beirut explosion, Atlantic Books, 468/47, Richard Freadman
ENGLUND, Peter (translated by Peter Graves), November 1942: An intimate history of the turning point of the Second World War, Bodley Head, 468/16, Joan Beaumont
EVERETT, Percival, James, Pan Macmillan, 466/24, Heather Neilson
FAGAN, Kate, Song in the Grass, Giramondo, 468/41, J. Taylor Bell
FELL, Samuel J., Full Coverage: A history of rock journalism in Australia, Monash University Press, 461/52, Des Cowley
FERGUSON, Hannah, Taboo, Affirm Press, 470/54, Pheobe Cannard-Higgins
FORD, Andrew, The Shortest History of Music, Black Inc., 467/56, Malcolm Gillies
FOWLER, Andrew, Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty, Melbourne University Press, 467/11, Marilyn Lake
FOX, Brad, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the luminous ocean depths, Pushkin Press, 461/50, Killian Quigley
FOX, Robin Lane, Homer and His Iliad, Allen Lane, 462/23, Alastair Blanshard
FRANKEL, Boris, No Country for Idealists: The making of a family of subversives, Greenmeadows, 464/39, Ebony Nilsson
FREEMAN, Damien, The End of Settlement: Why the 2023 referendum failed, Connor Court Publishing, 468/14, Dominic Kelly
FUGE, Lauren, Voyagers: Our journey into the Anthropocene, Text, 470/62, Dave Witty
FULLAGAR, Kate, Bennelong & Phillip: A history unravelled, Scribner, 461/14, Emma Dortins
GAITA, Raimond, Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings, MUP, 461/12, Frank Bongiorno
GARNER, Helen, The Season, Text, 471/16, Jonathan Ricketson
GENTILL, Sulari, The Mystery Writer: A novel, Ultimo Press, 466/31, Alex Cothren
GILES, Paul, Dark Land: Memoir of a secret childhood, Paul Dry Books, 465/49, Paul Giles
GÍSLASON, Kári, Running with Pirates: On freedom, adventure, and fathers and sons, UQP, 468/45, Shannon Burns
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, The Cancer Finishing School, Viking, 463/20, Michael Shmith
GOLVAN, Colin, Protecting Indigenous Art: From T-shirts to the flag, Melbourne University Press, 471/35, Gabriella Coslovich
GORDON, Dominic, Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, Upswell, 468/60, Michael Winkler
GRAY, Mandi, Suing for Silence: Sexual violence and defamation law, University of British Columbia Press, 466/16, Jessica Lake
HALL, Rodney, Vortex, Picador, 468/29, James Ley
HAM, Melinda, The Lucky Ones, Affirm Press, 467/63, Seumas Spark
HAMILTON, Clive and HAMILTON, Myra, The Privileged Few, Polity, 471/52, Adrian Walsh
HAMILTON, Steven and HOLDEN, Richard, Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race, UNSW Press, 469/20, Johanna Leggatt
HARARI, Yuval Noah, Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI, Fern Press, 470/23, Robyn Arianrhod
HARBISON, Peter with Derek Sadubin, Alan Joyce and Qantas: The trials and transformation of an Australian icon, Penguin, 461/19, Stuart Kells
HARDCASTLE, Dylin, A Language of Limbs: A novel, Picador, 466/30, Yves Rees
HARDING, Christopher, The Light of Asia: A history of Western fascination with the East, Allen Lane, 467/16, Alison Broinowski
HART, Kevin, Lands of Likeness: For a poetics of contemplation, University of Chicago Press, 462/42, Scott Stephens
HAZLEHURST, Noni, Dropping the Mask, HarperCollins, 470/56, Diane Stubbings
HENDERSON, Anne, Menzies versus Evatt: The great rivalry of Australian politics, Connor Court Publishing, 462/15, Patrick Mullins
HERZOG, Werner (translated by Michael Hofmann), Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Bodley Head, 465/51, Corey Cribb
HILLS, Lia, The Desert Knows Her Name, Affirm Press, 466/29, Paul Genoni
HOLLAND, Patrick, Oblivion, Transit Longue, 469/26, Adam Rivett
HOLLINGHUSRT, Alan, Our Evenings, Picador, 470/32, Tim Byrne
HOMER, (translated by Emily Wilson), The Iliad, W.W. Norton & Company, 462/23, Alastair Blanshard
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel (translated by Shaun Whiteside), Annihilation, Picador, 471/38, David Jack
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, Netflicks: Conceptual television in the streaming era, UWA Publishing, 465/47, Clare Monagle
HӦNES, Hans C., Tangled Paths: A life of Aby Warburg, Reaktion Books, 469/54, Paul Giles
JACKSON, Andy, OTTAWAY, Esther and SHYING, Kerry, Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability, Puncher & Wattmann, 471/55, Anders Villani
JAMISON, Leslie, Splinters: A memoir, Granta, 468/23, Beth Kearney
JEIRETH, Subhash, George Orwell’s Elephant and Other Essays, Gazebo Books, 467/62, Theodore Ell
JONES, Allen C., Big Weird Lonely Hearts, MidnightSun, Riff Raff Press, 463/35, Debra Adelaide
JONES, Gail, One Another, Text Publishing, 462/38, Maggie Nolan
JOOSTEN, Melanie, Like Fire-Hearted Suns, Ultimo Press, 464/26, Amy Walters
KAFKA, Franz (translated by Mark Harman), Selected Stories, Harvard University Press, 465/31, Joachim Redner
KALINAK, Kathryn, Film Music: A very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 462/58, Richard Leathem
KAMENEV, Marina, Kin: Family in the 21st century, NewSouth, 462/55, Bridget Vincent
KASSAB, Yumna, Politica, Ultimo Press, 462/41, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
KELL, Katrina, Chloé, Echo, 466/33, A. Frances Johnson
KELLS, Stuart, Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money, MUP, 464/41, Gideon Haigh
KENNY, Michael, Fractured Union: Politics, sovereignty and the fight to save the United Kingdom, Hurst, 466/14, Ben Wellings
KINDT, Julia, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten ancient creatures that make us human, CUP, 463/38, Christopher Allen
KING, Ross, The Shortest History of Italy, Black Inc., 464/40, Claudio Bozzi
KINSELLA, John, Beams of Light: Stories, Transit Longue, 469/28, Maria Takolander
KNOX, Malcolm, The First Friend, Allen & Unwin, 469/33, Alex Cothren
KOLKER, Robert P. and Nathan Abrams, Kubrick: An odyssey, Faber, 467/46, Peter Goldsworthy
KUNDNANI, Hans, Eurowhiteness: Culture, empire and race in the European project, Hurst, 462/26, Clinton Fernandes
KURMELOVS, Royce, Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with big oil, UQP, 470/24, Stuart Kells
KUSHNER, Rachel, Creation Lake, Jonathan Cape, 470/31, David Jack
LAING, Olivia, The Garden Against Time: In search of a common paradise, Picador, 468/46, Kate McFadyen
LAMB, Matthew, Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths, Knopf, 463/9, Sascha Morrell
LE, Nam, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, Scribner, 463/45, Michael Hofmann
LEFEBVRE, Alexandre, Liberalism as a Way of Life, Princeton University Press, 469/16, Scott Stephens
LENNON, J. Robert, Critical Hits: Writers on gaming and the alternate worlds we inhabit, Serpent’s Tail, 462/50, Chris Flynn
LESTER, Alan, The Truth About Empire: Real histories of British colonialism, Hurst, 467/22, Zoë Laidlaw
LILLIE, Jade and Kate Larsen, with Cara Kirkwood and Jax Brown, The Relationship Is the Project: A guide to working with communities, NewSouth, 465/52, Astrid Edwards
LINDENMAYER, David, Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what’s happening in our tall forests, Allen & Unwin, 465/56, Dave Witty
LIVINGSTONE, David N., The Empire of Climate: A history of an idea, Princeton University Press, 469/56
LLOYD, Nick, The Eastern Front: A history of the first world war, Viking, 468/17, Michael McKernan
LOMER, Kathryn, AfterLife, Puncher & Wattmann, 462/47, Anthony Lynch
LONESBOROUGH, Gary, We Didn’t Think It Through, Allen & Unwin, 461/43, Julie Janson
LOUIS, Édouard, Change: A novel, Harvill Secker, 465/32, David Jack
LU, Donna, The Best Australian Science Writing 2023, NewSouth, 461/22, Robyn Arianrhod
LU, Siang, Ghost Cities, UQP, 464/31, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
LUCAS, Caroline, Another England: How to reclaim our national story, Hutchinson, 470/19, Ben Wellings
MCBRIDE, David, The Nature of Honour, Viking, 461/9, Kevin Foster
McCALMAN, Iain, John Büsst, NewSouth, 465/57, Anna Krien
MCFARLANE, Fiona, Highway 13, Allen & Unwin, 468/27, Geordie Williamson
McKINNON, Catherine, To Sing of War, 467/31, Fourth Estate, Cassandra Atherton
MCLAREN, Greg, camping underground, Puncher & Wattmann, 461/44, Anders Villani
MCNAMARA, Catherine, The Carnal Fugues, Puncher & Wattman, Riff Raff Press, 463/35, Debra Adelaide
MCNAMARA, Tim, Paul and Paula: A history of separation, survival and belonging, Monash University Publishing, 461/36, Seumas Spark
MACCARTER, Kent, Fat Chance: Journalism poems, Upswell, 463/44, Des Cowley
MacCULLOCH, Diarmaid, Lower than the Angels: A history of Christianity, Allen Lane, 470/48, Miles Pattenden
MacLACHLAN, Mat, Krithia: The forgotten ANZAC battle of Gallipoli, Hachette, 469/62, Robin Prior
MAGUIRE, Emily, Rapture, Allen & Unwin, 469/32, Heather Neilson
MANNE, Robert, A Political Memoir: Intellectual combat in the Cold War and the culture wars, La Trobe University Press, 471/12, Frank Bongiorno
MANTEL, Hilary (edited by Nicholas Pearson), A Memoir of My Former Self, John Murray, 463/18, Frances Wilson
MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García (translated by Anne McLean), Until August, Viking, 464/31, Alice Whitmore
MASON, Brett, Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK, NewSouth, 463/41, Nick Hordern
MATHEWS, Iola, Race Mathews: A life in politics, Monash University Press, 471/33, Paul Strangio
MAY, Theresa, The Abuse of Power: Confronting injustice in public life, Headline, 461/17, Gordon Pentland
MEDVED, Lisa, The Engraver’s Secret, HarperCollins, 466/32, A. Frances Johnson
MIDDLETON, Kate, Television: New poems, Giramondo, 469/53, Tim Loveday
MIDDLETON, Murray, No Church in the Wild, Picador, 463/30, Morgan Nunan
MILLER, Alex, The Deal, Allen & Unwin, 470/36, Anthony Lynch
MILLIGAN, Louise, Pheasants Nest, Allen & Unwin, 465/28, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
MOLLOY, Audrey, The Blue Cocktail, Pitt Street Poetry, 465/54, Sam Ryan
MORANTE, Elsa (translated by Jenny McPhee), Lies and Sorcery, NYRB Classics, 461/42, Lily Patchett
MORGAN, Ruth A., Climate Change and International History, Bloomsbury Academic, 464/55, Harrison Croft
MORRIS-SUZUKI, Tessa, A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia, Melbourne University Press, 466/57, Susan Sheridan
MOTION, Andrew and Stephen Regan, The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of memory, mourning and consolation, Penguin Classics, 464/47, David McCooey
MULDOON, Paul, The Penitent State: Exposure, mourning, and the biopolitics of national healing, Oxford University Press, 462/14, Stephanie Collins
MURAKAMI, Haruki (translated by Philip Gabriel), The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Harville Secker, 471/40, Cassandra Atherton
MURPHY, Kerry and Jennifer Hill, Pursuit of the New: Louise Hanson-Dyer, publisher and collector, Lyrebird Press, 463/62, Malcolm Gillies
MURRAY, Oswyn, The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the present, Allen Lane, 470/47, Christopher Allen
MUSGRAVE, David, Mishearing, Gorilla Books, 462/47, Anthony Lynch
NAMATJIRA, Vincent, Vincent Namatjira, Thames & Hudson, 463/61, Roger Benjamin
NASH, Bruce, All the Words We Know, Allen & Unwin, 466/31, Alex Cothren
NEEME, Imbi, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not, Viking, 466/31, Alex Cothren
NEUMANN, Peter R. (translated by David Shaw), The New World Disorder, Scribe, 463/17, William Leben
NUNEZ, Sigrid, The Vulnerables, Virago, 461/38, Mireille Juchau
O’GORMAN, Emily, Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, Melbourne University Press, 469/57, Harrison Croft
O’HAGAN, Andrew, Caledonian Road, Faber, 465/26, Shannon Burns
O’TOOLE, Fintan, Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life, Apollo, 469/50, Stephen Regan
OHLMEYER, Jane, Making Empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world, Oxford University Press, 462/27, Ronan McDonald
OLSEN, Penny, Artful Lives: From Melbourne to the Islands: The artful lives of the Cohen sisters, Melbourne Books, 468/42, Jane Sullivan
OLSON, Lynne, Empress of the Nile: The daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction, Scribe, 461/48, Theodore Ell
OLUBAS, Brigitta and Susan Wyndham, Hazzard and Harrower, NewSouth, 465/20, Peter Rose
ORLANDO, Roslyn, Ekhō, Upswell, 465/54, Sam Ryan
OSBORNE, Margot, The Adelaide Art Scene, Wakefield Press, 465/37, Patrick Flanery
PAICE, Christine, The Oxenbridge King, Fourth Estate, 468/31, Rose Lucas
PAPASTERGIADIS, Nikos, John Berger and Me: A migrant’s eye, Giramondo, 469/63, Giacomo Bianchino
PARKER, Peter, Some Men in London: Queer life, 1945-1959, Penguin Classics, 469/45, Ian Dickson
PASCOE, Bruce, with Lyn Harwood, Black Duck: A year at Yumburra, Thames & Hudson, 465/14, Seumas Spark
PATTENDEN, Miles, Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations, 1400-1750, OUP, 464/36, Miles Pattenden
PELOSI, Nancy, The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House, Simon & Schuster, 470/17, Marilyn Lake
PERERA-NATHAN, Shiroma, God and the Angel: Vivien leigh and Laurence Olivier’s tour de force of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne Books, 464/58, Michael Shmith
PERRY, Roland, The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia in World War II, Allen & Unwin, 470/51, Michael McKernan
PERSIAN, Jayne, Fascists in Exile: Post-war displaced persons in Australia, Routledge, 466/54, Robin Prior
PIEPER, Liam, Appreciation, Hamish Hamilton, 464/30, Eli McLean
PIETSCH, Tamson, The Floating University: Experience, empire, and the politics of knowledge, University of Chicago Press, 463/23, Glyn Davis
PIPER, Ailsa, For Life: A memoir of living and dying – and flying, Allen & Unwin, 467/58, Brenda Walker
POLIZZOTTI, Mark, Why Surrealism Matters, Yale University Press, 471/57, John Hawke
POWERS, Richard, Playground, Hutchinson Heinemann, 470/35, Shannon Burns
PROSSER, Jordan, Big Time, University of Queensland Press, 467/26, Ben Brooker
PROUST, Marcel (translated by Brian Nelson), The Swann Way, Oxford University Press, 469/27, Felicity Chaplin
QUARTLY, Marian, The Middling Sort: A South Australian family history, Marian Quartly, 471/60, Kerryn Goldsworthy
REBANKS, James, The Place of Tides, Allen Lane, 471/15, Sarah Day
REES, Yves, Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America, NewSouth, 468/51, Kirsten Tranter
REEVES, Aaron and FRIEDMAN, Sam, Born to Rule: The making and remaking of the British elite, Harvard, 468/48, Gordon Pentland
REID, Christopher, The Letters of Seamus Heaney, Faber, 466/49, Stephen Regan
RICHARDS, John, The Gorgon Flower, UQP, 465/25, Anthony Lynch
RICHARDSON, Raeden, The Degenerates, Text Publishing, 468/32, Anthony Lynch
RISEMAN, Noah, Transgender Australia: A history since 1910, MUP, 463/50, Jack Nicholls
ROBERTS, Jason, Every Living Thing: The great and deadly race to know all life, Riverrun, 470/59, Danielle Clode
ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, The Trial of Vladimir Putin, Biteback Publishing, 467/18, Nick Hordern
ROBEYNS, Ingrid, Limitarianism: The case against extreme wealth, Allen Lane, 466/52, Adrian Walsh
ROLLO, Stuart, Terminus: Westward expansion, China, and the end of the American empire, John Hopkins University Press, 469/60
ROONEY, Sally, Intermezzo, Faber, 471/39, James Ley
ROSE, Deborah Bird, Dreaming Ecology: Nomadic and Indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia, ANU Press, 467/15, Stephen Bennetts
RUDD, Kevin, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is shaping China and the world, Oxford University Press, 471/8, Neil Thomas
RUSHDIE, Salman, Knife: Meditations after an attempted murder, Jonathen Cape, 465/11, James Ley
SACHS, Harvey, Schoenberg: Why he matters, Liveright, 461/56, Malcolm Gillies
SAIKAL, Amin, How to Lose a War: The story of America’s intervention in Afghanistan, Yale University Press, 469/18, Ian Parmeter
SAKR, Omar, Non-Essential Work, UQP, 464/52, Mike Ladd
SALESA, Damon, An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific essays, Bridget Williams Books, 469/59, Bain Attwood
SAMUELS, Maurice, Alfred Dreyfus: The man at the center of the affair, Yale University Press, 466/53, Peter McPhee
SANT, Andrew, Near the Border: New and selected poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 461/47, Geoff Page
SAUNDERS, Mykaela, Always Will Be, UQP, 463/33, Claire G. Coleman
SAWARD, Melanie, Burn, Affirm Press, 461/43, Julie Janson
SCHOLFIELD-PETERS, Tess, Dear Mutzi, NLA, 470/61, Boris Frankel
SEE-THO, Michelle, Jade and Emerald, 467/30, Vintage, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
SENNET, Richard, The Performer: Art, life, politics, Allen Lane, 467/57, Paul Giles
SERONG, Jock, Cherrywood, Fourth Estate, 468/26, A. Frances Johnson
SHAKESPEARE, Nicholas, Ian Fleming: The complete man, Harvill Secker, 461/24, Paul Kildea
SHAPIRO, James, The Playbook: A story of theatre, democracy and the making of a culture war, Faber, 471/56, Paul Giles
SHEPHERDSON, Nathan, parallel equators, Recent Work Press, 461/44, Anders Villani
SHIOSAKI, Elfie, Refugia, Magabala Books, 469/52, Andy Jackson
SILVESTER, John, Dark City: True stories of crimes, cock-ups, crooks and cops, Pan Macmillan, 470/60, Jonathan Ricketson
SIMMONDS, Alecia, Courting: An intimate history of love and the law, La Trobe University Press, 461/51, Zoe Smith
SINGER, Peter and Shih Chao-Hwei, The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altruism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world, Text, 463/51, Adam Bowles
SMEE, Sebastian, Paris in Ruins: Love, war, and the birth of Impressionism, Text, 469/23, Peter McPhee
SMITH, Shannon L., Occidental Preacher, Accidental Teacher: The enigmatic Clive Williams, Volume One, 1921-1968, Big Hill Publishing, 465/12, Nathan Hollier
SPENCE, Rachel, Battle for the Museum: Cultural institutions in crisis, Hurst, 468/18, Gabriella Coslovich
SPRAWSON, Warwick, We Will Live and Then We Will See, Riff Raff Press, 463/35, Debra Adelaide
STANLEY, Peter, Beyond the Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books, NewSouth, 470/50, Robin Gerster
STEGEMANN, Luke, Madrid: A new biography, Yale University Press, 471/62, Abi Stephenson
STEPHENS, Scott, Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle its protectors and the man who fought for justice, Black Inc., 464/9, Anne Manne
STONEBRIDGE, Lyndsey, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s lessons in love and disobedience, Jonathan Cape, 465/48, Julienne van Loon
TE WHIU, Anne-Marie, Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project, Magabala Books, 464/49, Mykaela Saunders
THOMAS, Martin, The End of Empires and a World Remade: A global history of decolonization, Princeton University Press, 471/51, Clinton Fernandes
THOMSON, David, The Fatal Alliance: A century of war on film, Harper, 468/58, Kevin Foster
TICK, Judith, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The jazz singer who transformed American song, W.W. Norton & Company, 464/59, Robyn Archer
TODD, Ruby, Bright Object, Allen & Unwin, 465/30, Naama Grey-Smith
TÓIBÍN, Colm, Long Island, Picador, 466/25, Peter Rose
TOSCANO, Alberto, Late Fascism: Race, capitalism, Verso, 462/11, Ben Gook
TRELOAR, Lucy, Days of Innocence and Wonder, Picador, 461/41, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
TRETHEWEY, Rachel, Mothers of the Mind: The remarkable women who shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath, The History Press, 463/22, Morag Fraser
TSANG, Steve and Olivia Cheung, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, OUP, 464/12, Geoff Raby
TURNELL, Sean, An Unlikely Prisoner, Viking, 461/11, Nick Hordern
VAN DER VLIES, Andrew and Lucie Valerie Graham, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, Bloomsbury, 462/31, Tim Mehigan
VAN REYBROUCK, David (translated by David Colmer and David McKay), Revolusi: Indonesia and the birth of the modern world, Bodley Head, 467/23, Max Walden
VISONTAY, Michael, Nobel Fragments: The maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book, Scribe, 471/20, Jason Steger
WALLACE, Chris, Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023, NLA, 469/48, Richard Freadman
WEETMAN, Nova, Love, Death & Other Scenes, University of Queensland Press, 467/59, Tracy Ellis
WEST, Simon, Prickly Moses: Poems, Princeton University Press, 461/46, David Mason
WILLIAMS, George and HUME, David, People Power: How Australian referendums are lost and won, UNSW Press, 469/14, Anne Twomey
WILLS, Clair, Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets, Allen Lane, 464/35, Diane Stubbings
WINTON, Tim, Juice, Hamish Hamilton, 470/29, Paul Giles
WITTY, Dave, What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 462/51, Ashley Hay
WYLD, Evie, The Echoes, 467/29, Vintage, Diane Stubbings
ZACHARY, Gorman, The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, anti-communism, continuities 1943 –1954, Melbourne University Press, 462/15, Patrick Mullins
ZUSAK, Markus, Three Wild Dogs and the Truth, Picador, 471/18, Ben Brooker
2024 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Film/Television/Streaming
Nemesis (ABC), 462/60, Joshua Black
Evil Does Not Exist (Hi Gloss Entertainment), 464/61, Tiia Kelly
Perfect Days (Madman Entertainment), 464/63, Richard Leathem
Housekeeping for Beginners (Maslow Entertainment), 464/40, Anwen Crawford
The Test (Amazon Prime), 466/39, Anwen Crawford
The Substance (Madman Entertainment), 469/40, Anwen Crawford
The Conversation, 470/41, Jordan Prosser
Music
Víkingur Ólafsson & Consortium (Melbourne Recital Centre), 454/61, John O’Donnell
Mahler’s Song of the Earth (Australian Chamber Orchestra), 465/36, Malcolm Gillies
Paul Grabowsky: Solo Piano (Woodend Winter Arts Festival), 466/41, Des Cowley
Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 468/34, Malcolm Gillies
Opera
Gurrelieder (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 463/56, Malcolm Gillies
Eucalyptus (Victorian Opera and Opera Australia), 470/38, Michael Halliwell
Theatre
The Seagull (Syndey Theatre Company), 461/63, Clare Monagle
The Inheritance (fortyfivedownstairs), 462/62, Tim Byrne
Vanya (National Theatre Live), 463/57, Andrew Fuhrmann
Qui a tué mon père (Who killed my father) (Schaubühne Berlin and Théâtre de la Ville Paris), 463/59, Patrick Flanery
A Case for the Existence of God (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 465/39, Andrew Fuhrmann
Multiple Bad Things (Back to Back Theatre), 466/36, Andrew Fuhrmann
King Lear (Bell Shakespeare), 467/50, Ian Dickson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Red Stitch), 467/54, Peter Rose
Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre), 468/35, Clare Monagle
Doll, 468/38, John Rickard
Topdog/Underdog (Melbourne Theatre Company), 469/38, Diane Stubbings
Bad Boy (fortyfivedownstairs), 470/40, Ben Brooker
My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company), 471/44, Diane Stubbings
Rhinoceros (fortyfivedownstairs), 471/46, Ellie Nielson
August: Osage County (Belvoir St Theatre), 471/48, Ian Dickson
Visual Arts
Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao (National Gallery of Australia), 467/52, Roger Benjamin
Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch (Art Gallery of South Australia), 468/36, Patrick Flannery
Cats & Dogs (National Gallery of Victoria), 471/47, Sebastian Moore
Dance
Oscar (The Australian Ballet), 469/37, Lee Christofis
Book Talk
Essays and Commentary
NILSSON, Ebony, ‘The lives of ‘ordinary’ people: From Siberia and Shanghai to Kings Cross’, 461/26
EDWARDS, Peter, ‘Warts and All: New forms of political interference in official histories’, 461/54
ALTMAN, Dennis, ‘The spectre of tribalism: Reflections on Israel, AIDS and identity politics’, 462/18
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘“At least I’ve told these stories to you”: Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet’, 462/33
BONGIORNO, Frank, ‘“Thin labourism”: How is the Albanese government travelling?’, 463/14
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, ‘Portrait of a friendship: In memoriam Katerina Clark (20 June 1941–1 February 2024)’, 463/26
GELTNER, Guy, ‘When we talk about the Middle Ages: Revisiting the power of periodisation’, 463/42
NOLAN, Maggie, ‘Information and transformation: The continuing expansion of AustLit’, 464/33
NEILSON, Heather, ‘Some sort of afterlife: Posthumous representations of Gore Vidal’, 464/43
CURRAN, James, ‘AUKUS in the dock: Questions and challenges for the Albanese government’, 465/7
JOHNSON, Miranda, ‘Whither Waitangi? Biculturalism on the rocks in New Zealand’, 465/17
LAMB, Matthew, ‘Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse’s battle to defend authors’, 465/33
BEAUMONT, Joan, ‘“I never knew my uncle”: The phenomenon of pilgrimages and postmemory’, 466/19
HORDERN, Nick, ‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’, 466/37
NOLAN, Melanie, and Michelle Staff, ‘Reimagining the ADB’, 466/42
KANE, Paul, ‘James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’, 467/8
ARIANRHOD, Robyn, ‘Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape’, 467/19
DEANE, Joel, ‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’, 468/9
BELL, Kevin, ‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’, 468/20
HALL, Ian, ‘The twilight of Narendra Modi: India’s leader’s invincibility is fraying’, 468/43
FERNANDES, Clinton, ‘History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor’, 469/9
SPARK, Seumas, ‘Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea’, 469/42
CORBOULD, Clare, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/8
CURRAN, James, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/10
FERNANDES, Clinton, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/10
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/11
LYNCH, Timothy J., ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/12
LAKE, Marilyn, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/13
SHORTIS, Emma, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/14
ALTMAN, Dennis, ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/15
ONDAATJE, Michael L., ‘Can’t get enough of the US election?: Australia’s obsession with American politics’, 470/15
BORNSTEIN, Josh, ‘Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture’, 470/21
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘The Great Australian Denial: W.E.H. Stanner on mourning and disremembering’, 471/31
Fiction
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
HASHAM, Nicole, ‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’, 466/8
SHOLL, Natasha, ‘Hold your nerve’, 465/42
SLAUGHTER, Tracey, ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’, 464/19
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
CRISPIN, Judith Nangala, ‘Poem of the Dead Woman’, 461/30
DAMJANOVICH-NAPOLEON, Natalie, ‘Immigration Triction’, 461/34
HOGAN, Dan, ‘Workarounds’, 461/33
ORTEGA, Meredi, ‘Cuttle’, 461/29
VUCIC, Dženana, ‘Blagaj, Mostar’, 461/32
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
GREER, Kerry, ‘First Snow’, 467/33
STENHOUSE, Shelley, ‘M.’, 467/42
VAN EPPS, Jill, ‘Pornwald’, 467/38
Interviews
Open Page
DE TORES, Francesca, 466/59
HAWTHORNE, Susan, 471/63
LEIGH, Andrew, 462/44
McCALMAN, Iain, 465/59
MANNE, Anne, 464/56
SMEE, Sebastian, 469/41
WILLIAMS, George, 468/64
Poet of the Month
BROOKS, David, 463/46
FAGAN, Kate, 470/63
O’BRIEN, Damen, 466/46
Publisher of the Month
KONG, Foong Ling, 471/49
Critic of the Month
ARIANRHOD, Robyn, 468/24
BONGIORNO, Frank, 462/49
DICKSON, Ian, 463/54
MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona, 461/49
Backstage
ARMFIELD, Neil, 465/41
FORD, Andrew, 467/51
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, 462/63
HALLBERG, David, 471/45
HAZLEHURST, Noni, 470/42
HEWITT, Angela, 469/36
LUKEY, Cameron, 461/62
Poetry
Poems
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘On Being Shy’, 467/48
BROOKS, David, ‘Things Saying Their Names’, 470/57
BROWN, Lachlan, ‘Defeat Device’, 464/29COUANI, Anna, ‘Summer Winter’, 465/16
CRUTCHFIELD, Amy, ‘Norway Spruce’, 470/30
DAVIDSON, Toby, ‘An Octopus Test My Left Big Toe’, 469/12
DAY, Sarah, ‘Arrow’, 462/45
DAY, Sarah, ‘Watershed’, 468/15
GAO, Gavin Yuan, ‘Itinerant’, 467/21
GASKIN, Claire, ‘a candle keeps me company’, 469/24
GASKIN, Claire, ‘home’, 469/24
HART, Kevin, ‘Big Meadow’, 468/30
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Scorecard’, 471/17
KINSELLA, John, ‘Other Eminent Hands’, 466/48
KLOC, Joe, ‘82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984’, 471/11
MANNING, Julie, ‘Evening on the River’, 466/17
MEAD, Philip, ‘Rinbo Abdo’, 463/21
POTTER, Claire, ‘Black Market’, 465/22
ROSE, Peter, ‘Portfolio’, 462/43
ROSE, Peter, ‘Syllabus’, 462/43
ROYAL, Autumn, ‘A house – I will not pain’, 462/29
SANT, Andrew, ‘Redheads’, 466/40
SOLIE, Karen, ‘Smoke’, 471/36
STEWART, Susan, ‘Porter’s Pass’, 470/43
VILLANI, Anders, ‘Calm Voice’, 463/12
Surveys
Books of the Year
ARIANRHOD, Robyn, 471/24
ATHERTON, Cassandra, 471/29
BONGIORNO, Frank, 471/24
BRADLEY, James, 471/21
BURNS, Shannon, 471/26
CORBOULD, Clare, 471/21
DAVIS, Glyn, 471/22
DEANE, Joel, 471/29
FERNANDES, Clinton, 471/26
FLANERY, Patrick, 471/29
FOSTER, Kevin, 471/30
GILES, Paul, 471/27
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, 471/30
HAWKE, John, 471/30
HOLLIER, Nathan, 471/29
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 471/29
JANSON, Julie, 471/24
KINSELLA, John, 471/26
LAKE, Marilyn, 471/27
LEY, James, 471/30
McCOOEY, David, 471/24
McPHEE, Peter, 471/24
MULLINS, Patrick, 471/27
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 471/24
REES, Yves, 471/21
REGAN, Stephen, 471/29
ROSE, Peter, 471/27
RUSSELL, Lynette, 471/21
SIMIC, Zora, 471/29
STEEGER, Jason, 471/22
STEOHENS, Scott, 471/22
STUBBINGS, Diane, 471/26
TRANTER, Kirsten, 471/22
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 471/21
WILSON, Frances, 471/27
WINKLER, Michael, 471/26
Arts Highlights
ALLISON, John, 461/60
ARCHER, Robyn, 461/58
BROOKER, Ben, 461/61
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 461/59
COWLEY, Des, 461/60
DICKSON, Ian, 461/58
EWINGTON, Julie, 461/59
FORD, Andrew, 461/59
GILLIES, Malcolm, 461/59
HALLIWELL, Michael, 461/61
KNEZIC, Sophie, 461/60
MONAGLE, Clare, 461/59
PROSSER, Jordan, 461/60
ROSE, Peter, 461/58
SHMITH, Michael, 461/60
STRAHLE, Graham, 461/61
STUBBINGS, Diane, 461/58
TREGEAR, Peter, 461/61
Tribute
TIMLIN, John, ‘Jack Hibberd (1940-2024)’, 470/5
Online exclusives
COCKBURN, Milton, The Assassination of Neville Wran, Connor Court Publishing, 470, Lyndon Megarrity
DORLING, Danny, Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s next generation, Hurst, 471, Francesca Newton
FISH, Stanley, Law at the Movies: Turning legal doctrine into art, Oxford University Press, 469, Richard Leathem
FOWLER, Xavier, The Football War: The VFA and VFL’s battle for supremacy, Melbourne University Press, 471, Michael Roberts
HAIDT, Jonathan, The Anxious Generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, Allen Lane, 467, Tim McMinn
MYINT, Khin, Fragile Creatures: A memoir, Black Inc., 471, Tim Loveday
RICHARDSON, Michael, Nonhuman Witnessing: War, data, and ecology after the end of the world, Duke University Press, 469, Declan Fry
TOSH, Will, Straight Acting: The many queer lives of William Shakespeare, Sceptre, 469, Tim Byrne
WILES, Katherine, No Autographs, Please!: A backstage pass to life in the chorus – the stars who take their bow from the second row, Echo, 471, Michael Halliwell
ABR Arts
Interviews
Commentary
A Wilde Ballet (Sydney Opera House), online only, Helena Gjone
Festival
Beethoven Festival (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, John O’Donnell
Beethoven Festival (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, John O’Donnell
Melbourne International Jazz Festival, online only, Des Cowley
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, online only, Gillian Wills
Festival of Outback Opera 2024, online only, Gillian Wills
Baroque Festival: St John Passion (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Morag Fraser
Film/Television/Streaming
Blitz (Palace Films), online only, Diane Stubbings
Memory (Potential Films), online only, Richard Leathem
Conclave (British Film Festival), online only, Jordan Prosser
Lee (StudioCanal), online only, Tiia Kelly
A Different Man (Kismet), online only, Jordan Prosser
The Apprentice (Madman Entertainment), online only, Georgina Arnott
Montessori and There’s Still Tomorrow (St. ALi Italian Film Festival), online only, Angela Viora
The Critic (Transmission Films), online only, Barnaby Smith
Confidenza, Parthenope and Comandante (St. ALi Italian Film Festival), online only, Angela Viora
Last Summer (Potential Films), online only, Philippa Hawker
Midas Man (Transmission Films), online only, Barnaby Smith
Tótem (Hi Gloss Entertainment), online only, Stefan Solomon
Radical (Madman) and The Teacher Who Promised the Sea (HSBC Spanish Film Festival), online only, Angela Viora
Civil War (Roadshow), online only, J. Taylor Bell
Fremont (Mushroom Studios), online only, Stefan Solomon
Challengers (Universal Pictures), online only, Valerie Ng
The Rooster (Bonsai Films), online only, Stefan Solomon
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (Roadshow Entertainment), online only, Debbie Zhou
May December (Transmission Films), online only, Jordan Prosser
Anatomy of a Fall (Madman Entertainment), online only, Tiia Kelly
Priscilla (A24/Madman Entertainment), online only, Jordan Prosser
Àma Gloria, Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe, A Difficult Year, and Out of Season (Alliance Française French Film Festival), online only, Felicity Chaplin
Music
Kaddish: A Holocaust Memorial Concert (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Peter Tregear
Angela Hewitt in Recital (Chris Howlett Production), online only, Michael Morley
Fauré Requiem (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Peter Tregear
The Choir of King’s College (Musica Viva), online only, John O’Donnell
Schubert and the Viennese Masters (Woodend Winter Arts Festival), online only, Peter
Tregear
Jaime conducts Mahler 3 (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only, Peter Tregear
Schubert Piano Sonatas (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only, Michael Shmith
Opera
Julius Caesar (Pinchgut Opera), online only, Michael Halliwell
Die Walküre (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only, Peter Rose
Gilgamesh (Opera Australia and Sydney Chamber Opera), online only, Michael Halliwell
Così Fan Tutte (State Opera South Australia and Opera Queensland), online only, Peter Rose
Freddie De Tommaso (Arts Centre Melbourne) and The Puccini Gala Concert (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only, Peter Rose
Il Trittico (Opera Australia), online only, Michael Halliwell
Dido and Aeneas (Pinchgut Opera), online only, Michael Halliwell
Lucia di Lammermoor (Melbourne Opera), online only, Peter Rose
Candide (Victorian Opera), online only, Peter Tregear
The Magic Flute (Opera Australia), online only, Michael Halliwell
Theatre
Hamlet (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), online only, Diane Stubbings
Milk and Blood (Fortyfivedownstairs), online only, Ben Brooker
Romeo and Julie (Red Stitch), online only, Andrew Fuhrmann
Cost of Living (Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre), online only, Clare Monagle
Stereophonic (John Golden Theatre), online only, Diane Stubbings
A Streetcar Named Desire (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only, Ellie Nielsen
Macbeth (Malthouse Theatre), online only, Ben Brooker
Prima Facie (Black Swan Theatre Company), online only, Josh Stenberg
Dracula (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ian Dickson
Stolen (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ian Maxwell
Blackout Songs (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), online only, Diane Stubbings
The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse), online only, Duncan Wheeler
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Second Half Productions), online only, Ellie Nielsen
Things I Know to Be True (Theatre Works), online only, Tim Byrne
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ellie Nielsen
The President (Sydney Theatre Company), online only, Ian Dickson
Gaslight (Rodney Rigby for Newtheatricals in association with Queensland Theatre), online only, Tim Byrne
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bell Shakespeare), online only, John Severn
The Threepenny Opera (Berliner Ensemble/Adelaide Festival), online only, Wolfgang von Flügelhorn
Seventeen (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only, Diane Stubbings
Visual Art
Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar: Elements of discovery in two exhibitions (National Gallery of Australia), online only, Roger Benjamin
Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch (Art Gallery of South Australia), online only, Patrick Flanery
Grace Cowley & Raph Balson (National Gallery of Victoria), online only, Kelly Gellatly
Dance/Ballet
Horizon (Bangarra Dance Company), online only, Vicki Van Hout
Index for 1990: Nos 118-127
1990 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1991: Nos 129-137
1991 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1992: Nos 137-146
1992 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1993: Nos 148-157
1993 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1994: Nos 158-167
1994 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1995: Nos 168-177
1995 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1996: Nos 178-187
1996 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 1999: Nos 208-217
1999 Australian Book Review Index
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Index for 2023: Nos 450–460 & online features
ABR Index 2023
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2023
2023 Australian Book Review Index
Subscribers can read these reviews online here.
ADAM, Pip, Audition, Giramondo, 456/29, Jennifer Mills
AKBAR, Kaveh, The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 poets on the divine, Penguin, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
AKRAM, Wasim with Gideon Haigh, Sultan: A memoir, Hardie Grant Books, 453/43, Jonathan Green
ALBISTON, Jordie, Frank, National Library of Australia Publishing, 453/50, Anthony Lynch
ALEXANDER, Rustam, Red Closet: The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR, Manchester University Press, 454/43, Iva Glisic
ANDERSON, Kim E. The Prize, Pantera Press, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
ANDERSON, Susie, The Body Country, Hachette, 458/40, Bebe Backhouse-Oliver
ANGEL, Libby, Where I Slept, Text Publishing, 455/41, Jay Daniel Thompson
ARMSTRONG, Kate J., Nightbirds, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
ARROW, Michelle (ed.), Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution, NewSouth, 453/14, Marilyn Lake
ASHLEY, Melissa, The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Affirm Press, 460/41, Danielle Clode
ATHERTON, Cassandra and Paul Hetherington (eds.), Alcatraz, Gazebo Books, 457/51, Judith Bishop
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history, Auckland University Press, 459/12, Jim McAloon
ATWOOD, Margaret, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Chatto & Windus, 453/30, Sascha Morrell
AUTY, Kate, O’Leary of the Underworld: The untold story of the Forrest River Massacre, La Trove University Press, 453/11, Ann Curthoys
BACKHOUSE, Bebe, More Than These Bones, Magabala Books, 458/42, Julie Janson
BALINT, Ruth, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe, Cornell University Press, 450/53, Ebony Nilsson
BANCROFT, Jack Manning, Hoodie Economics: Changing our systems to value what matters, Hardie Grant Books, 458/38, Declan Fry
BARANAY, Inez, Drink Against Drunkenness: The life and times of Sasha Soldatow, Local Times Publishing, 452/34, Susan Varga
BARNES, Stuart, Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing, 459/41, Michael Farrell
BASHFORD, Alison, An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family, Allen Lane, 457/42, Gary Werskey
BEESLEY, Luke, In the Photograph, Giramondo, 456/58, Paul Hetherington
BELLAMY, Alex J., Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, war, and the failure of international diplomacy, Columbia University Press, 451/52, Tom Bamforth
BENJAMIN, Roger, Growing up Modern: Canberra’s Round House and Alex Jelinek, Halstead Press, 454/46, Sheridan Palmer
BENNETT, Tamryn, Icaros, Vagabond Press, 459/43, Sam Ryan
BERMAN, Greg and Aubrey Fox, Gradual: The case for incremental change in a radical age, Oxford University Press, 457/19, Glyn Davis
BIRCH, Tony, Women and Children, UQP, 460/42, Naama Grey-Smith
BISHOP, Stephanie, The Anniversary, Hachette, 452/36, Astrid Edwards
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, (translated and edited by Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoubi), Freedom, Only Freedom: The prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, Bloomsbury Academic, 450/12, Hessom Razavi
BOSTOCK, Shauna, Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories, Allen & Unwin, 458/34, Jacinta Walsh
BOYD, William, The Romantic: The real life of Cashel Greville Ross – a novel, Viking, 450/37, Gabriella Edelstein
BRAGG, Melvyn, Back in the Day: A memoir, Sceptre, 453/23, Michael Shmith
BROOKS, Peter, Seduced by Story: The use and abuse of narrative, New York Review Books, 451/26, Killian Quigley
BROWN, Claire, The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages, OUP, 458/32, Thomas Poulton
BROWNING, Daniel, Close to the Subject: Selected works, Magabala Books, 458/22, Philip Morrissey
BUORO, Stephen, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury, 455/38, Andrew van der Vlies
BURGMANN, J.R., Children of Tomorrow, Upswell, 453/32, Naama Grey-Smith
CADWALLADER, Robyn, The Fire and the Rose, Fourth Estate, 455/39, Naama Grey-Smith
CALABY, Tara, House of Longing, Text Publishing, 454/33, Rose Lucas
CAMPBELL, Genevieve with Tiwi Elders and knowledge holders, The Old Songs Are Always New: Singing traditions of the Tiwi Islands, Sydney University Press, 458/35, John J. Bradley
CANNON, Michael, Cannon Fire: A life in print, Miegunyah Press, 450/48, Johanna Leggatt
CARBIS, Gaylene, I Have Decided to Remain Vertical, Puncher & Wattmann, 455/50, Chris Arnold
CAREY, Jane, Taking to the Field: A history of Australian women in science, Monash University Publishing, 452/47, Jessica Urwin
CARLSON, Bronwyn and Terri Farrelly, Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal people and colonial commemorations in so-called Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Cole Baxter, online only
CATTON, Eleanor, Birnam Wood, Granta, 452/44, Michael Winkler
CHANDLER, Daniel, Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like?, Allen Lane, 459/15, Glyn Davis
CHARLTON, Andrew, Australia’s Pivot to India, Black Inc., 460/54, John Zubrycki
CIURARU, Carmela, Lives of the Wives: literary marriages, HarperCollins, 453/42, Jacqueline Kent
CLANCY, Kate, Period: The real story of menstruation, Princeton University Press, 459/58, Caroline de Costa
CLARK, Christopher, Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a new world, 1848–1849, Allen Lane, 460/22, Peter McPhee
CLARKE, Patricia, Bold Types: How Australia’s first women journalists blazed a trail, National Library of Australia, 450/54, Bridget Griffen-Foley
CLEMENS, Justin, A Foul Wind, Hunter Publishers, 452/50 and 454/47, Judith Bishop
COAD, Rachel, New York City Glow, Upwell, 460/44, Bernard Caleo
COETZEE, J.M., The Pole and Other Stories, Text Publishing, 455/36, Geordie Williamson
COHEN, David, The Terrible Event, Transit Lounge, 454/32, Alex Cothren
COLLINS, Rijn, Fed to Red Birds, Simon & Schuster, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
COOPER, Anthony with Thorsten Perl, Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything, NewSouth, 454/17, Joan Beaumont
COOPER, Melinda J., Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s interwar fiction, Sydney University Press, 451/24, Susan Sheridan
CORNWELL, Tim, A Private Spy: The letters of John le Carré, Viking, 450/50, Michael Shmith
CRAIG, Jen, Wall, Puncher & Wattmann, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
CROPP, Ryan, Donald Horne: A life in the lucky country, La Trobe University Press, 458/58, Tom Wright
CURTHOYS, Ann, Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig, The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A biographical history of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island, Routledge, 455/33, Georgina Arnott
DAISLEY, Stephen, A Better Place, Text Publishing, 457/35, Patrick Allington
DALGARNO, Paul, A Country of Eternal Light, Fourth Estate, 451/33, Jennifer Mills
DALGARNO, Paul, Prudish Nation: Life, love and libido, Upwell, 460/51, Frank Bongiorno
DAMOUSI, Joy, The Humanitarians: Child war refugees and Australian humanitarianism in a transnational world, 1919-1975, Cambridge University Press, 451/58, Andrew Markus
DAO, André, Anam, Hamish Hamilton, 455/42, Scott McCulloch
DAVIDSON, Robyn, Unfinished Woman, Bloomsbury, 458/50, Jacqueline Kent
DAVIS, Megan and George Williams, Everything You Need to Know about the Voice, NewSouth, 458/17, Bronwyn Fredericks
DAVISON, Graeme, My Grandfather’s Clock: Four centuries of a British-Australian family, Miegunyah Press, 459/11, Marilyn Lake
DAY, Gregory, The Bell of the World, Transit Lounge, 451/34, Michael Winkler
DAY, Sarah, Slack Tide, Pitt Street Poetry, 451/43, Jennifer Harrison
DE GRAZIA, Margreta, Shakespeare Without a Life, Oxford University Press, 457/48, David McInnis
DEANE, Joel, Judas Boys, Hunter, 459/30, Anders Villani
DEBENEDETTI, Gabriel, The Long Alliance: The imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Scribe, 450/26, Varun Ghosh
DOBBIN, Cindy and Freda Marnie Nicholls, My Mother the Spy, Allen & Unwin, 458/61, Michael Sexton
DOWDING, Peter and Ken Spillman, Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The valour of Bruce Dowding, Pen and Sword, 459/53, Peter McPhee
DOWLING, Gregory, The Colosseum Introduction, Franciscan University Press, 453/53, Geoff Page
DOYLE, Briohny, Why We Are Here, Vintage, 457/36, Alex Cothren
DRUMMOND, Willo, Moon Wrasses, Puncher & Wattmann, 459/43, Sam Ryan
DUNBAR, Jennifer Mackenzie, Missing Pieces, MidnightSun, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
DUNLOP, Tim, Voices of Us: The independents’ movement transforming Australian democracy, NewSouth, 450/20, Dennis Altman
DYLAN, Bob, The Philosophy of Modern Song, Simon & Schuster, 451/47, Andrew Ford
EAGLETON, Terry, Critical Revolutionaries: Five critics who changed the way we read, Yale University Press, 451/36, Benjamin Madden
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby, She is the Earth, Magabala Books, 458/42, Julie Janson
EDELE, Mark, Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The whole story, Melbourne University Press, 457/20, Nick Hordern
EDEN HOROWITZ, Mark (ed.), The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II, Oxford University Press, 453/40, Ian Dickson
EICH, Stefan, The Currency of Politics, Princeton University Press, 451/50, John Tang
ELLIOTT, Anthony, Algorithmic Intimacy: The digital revolution in personal relationships, Polity Press, 460/52, Judith Bishop
ELLIOTT, Helen, Eleven Letters to You: A memoir, Text Publishing, 455/22, Brenda Walker
ENRIGHT, Anne, The Wren, The Wren, Jonathen Cape, 459/31, Diane Stubbings
FINK, Jesse, The Eagle in the Mirror, Viking, 458/61, Michael Sexton
FINKEL, Alan, Powering Up: Unleashing the clean energy supply chain, Black Inc., 457/37, Julian V. McCarthy
FINKEMEYER, Pip, Sad Girl Novel, Ultimo Press, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
FITZGERALD, Deborah, Her Sunburnt Country: The extraordinary literary life of Dorothea Mackellar, Simon & Schuster, 459/17, Susan Sheridan
FITZGERALD, Michael, Late: A novel, Transit Lounge, 460/40, Tim Byrne
FLANAGAN, Richard, Question 7, Knopf, 459/9, Catriona Menzies-Pike
FLANNERY, Tim and Emma Flannery, Big Meg: The story of the largest and most mysterious predator that ever lived, Text, 459/56, Danielle Clode
FORD, Richard, Be Mine, Bloomsbury, 456/32, Geordie Williamson
FORD, Thomas H., and Justin Clemens, Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of Terra Nullius, Melbourne University Press, 455/44, Philip Mead
FOSTER, Chrissie with Paul Kennedy, Still Standing, Viking, 453/17, Barney Zwartz
FOULCHER, John, Dancing with Stephen Hawking, Pitt Street Poety, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
FROW, John (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, 452/22, Paul Giles
FUNDER, Anna, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life, Hamish Hamilton, 455/20, Michael Hofmann
GAMIELDIEN, Zeynab, The Scope of Permissibility, Ultimo Press, Rafqa Touma, online only
GARIBALDI, Korey, Impermanent Blackness: The making and unmaking of interracial literary culture in modern America, Princeton University Press, 457/45, Paul Giles
GAWENDA, Michael, My Life as a Jew, Scribe, 460/19, David Trigger
GIBSON, Andrew, J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture, Oxford University Press, 451/22, Sue Kossew
GIBSON, Prudence, The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the Herbarium, NewSouth, 454/53, Danielle Clode
GILLARD, Julia (ed.), Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech, Vintage, 450/24, Kim Rubenstein
GLOVER, Dennis, Thaw, Black Inc., 456/33, Morgan Nunan
GORMAN, Zachary (ed.), The Young Menzies: Success, failure, resilience 1894-1942, Melbourne University Press, 451/16, David Horner
GOUGOULIS, Alaina and Ian See (eds.), Family: Stories of belonging, Text Publishing, 454/26, Michael Winkler
GRACE, Paul, Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain’s first atomic test in Australia and the legacy that remains, Hachette, 458/47, Elizabeth Tynan
GRAHAM, Jillian, Inner Song: A biography of Margaret Sutherland, Miegunyah Press, 453/38, Kay Dreyfus
GRANT, Stan, The Queen is Dead: The time has come for a reckoning, Fourth Estate, 455/26, Malcolm Allbrook
GRENVILLE, Kate, Restless Dolly Maunder, Text Publishing, 457/33, Penny Russell
GRIFFITHS, Madison, Tissue, Ultimo Press, 456/60, Caroline de Costa
GUIAO, Jordan, Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it, Monash University Publishing, 453/54, Joshua Krook
GUILLORY, John, Professing Criticism, University of Chicago Press, 454/39, Paul Giles
HANKS, Tom, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Hutchinson Heinemann, 454/34, Jordan Prosser
HANNAN, Victoria, Marshmallow, Hachette, 451/30, Debra Adelaide
HARFORD, Lesbia, Selected Poems, Text Publishing, 457/52, Rose Lucas
HASLUCK, Nicholas, Che’s Last Embrace, Arcadia, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
HAUGEN, Frances, The Power of One: Blowing the whistle on Facebook, Hodder & Stoughton, 457/21, Kieran Pender
HEMMER, Nicole, Partisans: The conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s, Basic Books, 450/28, Dominic Kelly
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Ragged Disclosures, Recent Work Press, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
HEUSER, Beatrice, War: A genealogy of Western ideas and practices, Oxford University Press, 451/53, Philip Dwyer
HIGGIE, Jennifer, The Mirror and the Pallette: Rebellion, revolution and resilience: 500 years of women’s self-portraits, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 450/52, Julie Ewington
HIGGS, Annette, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, Vintage, 456/31, Kerryn Goldsworthy
HILL, Anthony, The Investigators, Michael Joseph, 452/38, Stephen Knight
HILL, Barry, Eggs for Keeps: Poetry reviews and other praise, Arcadia, 450/38, Geordie Williamson
HOBBS, Harry and George Williams, How to Rule Your Own Country: The weird and wonderful world of micronations, NewSouth, 450/23, Frank Bongiorno
HOBSON, Ben, The Death of John Lacey, Allen & Unwin, 452/38, Stephen Knight
HOGAN, Dan, Secret Third Thing, Cordite, 460/50, J. Taylor Bell
HOLMES À COURT, Simon, The Big Teal, Monash University Publishing, 450/20, Dennis Altman
HOPKIN, Michael (ed.), 2020: Reckoning with power and privilege, Thames & Hudson, 452/30, Joel Deane
HORNE, Craig, Line of Blood: The truth of Alfred Howitt, Melbourne Books, 458/36, Jason M. Gibson
HOULDEN, Jacquie and Seamus Spark (eds.), Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok, Monash University Publishing, 451/55, Francesca Sasnaitis
HOYER, Katja, Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, Allen Lane, 455/19, Sheila Fitzpatrick
HUGGINS, Rita and Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination, Aboriginal Studies Press, 458/31, Julie Andrews
INOON, Ayesha, Untethered, HQ Fiction, Rafqa Touma, online only
JACK, Richard Morton, Nick Drake: The life, Hachette, 459/55, Barnaby Smith
JACKSON, Davina, Australian Architecture: A history, Allen & Unwin, 451/37, Philip Goad
JAMES, Harold, Seven Crashes: The economic crises that shaped globalisation, Yale University Press, 459/23, Stuart Kells
JANSON, Julie, Madukka the River Serpent, UWA Publishing, 457/28, Debra Adelaide
JAY, Mike, Psychonauts: Drugs and the making of the modern mind, Yale University Press, 457/57, Ben Brooker
JOHNSON, Susan, Aphrodite’s Breath: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 454/23, Jacqueline Kent
JOHNSTON, Michelle, Tiny Uncertain Miracles, Fourth Estate, 451/34, Naama Grey-Smith
JONES, Jill, Acrobat Music: New and selected poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 457/55, Cassandra Atherton
JORDAN, Toni, Prettier if She Smiled More, Hachette, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
JOSE, Nicholas, The Idealist, Giramondo, 459/26, Paul Giles
KALAGIAN BLUNT, Ashley, Dark Mode, Ultimo Press, 451/28, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
KELLS, Stuart, MUP: A centenary history, Miegunyah Press, 452/20, Frank Bongiorno
KEMP, Peter, Retroland: A reader’s guide to the dazzling diversity of modern fiction, Yale, 460/47, Andrew van der Vlies
KENEALLY, Tom, Fanatic Heart, Vintage, 450/34, Ronan McDonald
KENNY, Paul D., Why Populism? Political strategy from Ancient Greece to the present, Cambridge University Press, 457/16, Ben Wellings
KERINAIUA, Mavis and Laura Rademaker, Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up, NewSouth, 458/35, John J. Bradley
KERTZER, David I., The Pope at War: The secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, Oxford University Press, 451/56, Miles Pattenden
KILLAR, Ashley, Cranko: The man and his choreography, Matador, 452/24, Lee Christofis
KING, Richard, Here Be Monsters: Is technology reducing our humanity?, Monash University Publishing, 456/61, Robyn Arianrhod
KINSELLA, John, Collected Poems: Volume One (1980-2005), The Ascension of Sheep, UWAP, 454/50, John Hawke
KINSELLA, John, Collected Poems: Volume Two (2005-2014), Harsh Hakea, UWAP, 454/50, John Hawke
KLEIN, Naomi, Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world, Allen Lane, 459/20, Zora Simic
KNEEN, Kris, Fat Girl Dancing, Text Publishing, 454/22, Diane Stubbings
KRISHNAN, Nikhil, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford 1900-1960, Random House, 457/59, Karen Green
KRUZE, Kevin M. and Julian E. Zelizer, Myth America: Historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past, Basic Books, 452/12, Marilyn Lake
KWON, Silvia Vincent & Sien, Macmillan, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
LANGTON, Marcia, The Welcome to Country Handbook: A guide to Indigenous Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 458/19, Sandra R. Phillips
LEACH, Roland, Cuttlefish: Western Australian poets, Sunline Press, 459/42, Brenda Walker
LEGGE, Kate, Infidelity and Other Affairs, Thames & Hudson, 451/21, Johanna Leggatt
LOHREY, Amanda, The Conversation, Text, 459/27, Felicity Plunkett
LOWELL, Robert, Memoirs, Allen & Unwin, 456/26, David Mason
LUBIS, Todung Mulya, War on Corruption: An Indonesian experience, Melbourne University Press, 456/17, Howard Dick
LUCAS, Madelaine, Thirst for Salt, Allen & Unwin, 452/41, Maria Takolander
LUCAS, Rose, Increments of the Everyday, Puncher & Wattmann, 455/48, Felicity Plunkett
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Edenglassie, UQP, 458/53, Jeanine Leane
LUI-CHIVIZHE, Leah, Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people, Miegunyah Press, 451/42, Ben Silverstein
LUMBY, Catharine, Frank Moorhouse: A life, Allen & Unwin, 459/19, Kerryn Goldsworthy
MACDONALD, Helen, and Sin Blaché, Prophet, Jonathen Cape, 458/57, J. R. Burgmann
MACINTYRE, Raina, Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity, NewSouth, 454/45, Ben Brooker
MAGEE, Paul, Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought, Rowman & Littlefield, 457/49, Patrick Flanery
MALCOLM, Janet, Still Pictures, Text Publishing, 452/14, Georgina Arnott
MALCOLM, Lynne, All in the Mind, ABC Books, 457/58, Nick Haslam
MALING, Caitlin, Spore or Seed, Fremantle Press, 455/48, Felicity Plunkett
MANDELBAUM, Michael, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak, power, great power, superpower, hyperpower, Oxford University Press, 452/11, Emma Shortis
MARKS, Russell, Black Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 451/10, David Kearns
MARNEY, Ellie, Some Shall Break, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
MARR, David, Killing for Country: A family story, Black Inc., 458/14, Mark McKenna
MARSH, Walter, Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch Empire, Scribe, 456/20, Jonathan Green
MASON, Brett, Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK, NewSouth, Nick Hordern, online only
MASON, Brett, Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world, NewSouth, 450/29, Julia Horne
MASON, David, Incarnation and Metamorphosis: Can literature change us?, Paul Dry Books, 453/53, Geoff Page
McCAFFRIE, Brendan, Michelle Grattan and Chris Wallace (eds.), The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022, UNSW Press, 454/14, Patrick Mullins
McCARTHY, Cormac, Stella Maris, Picador, 450/33, Shannon Burns
McCARTHY, Cormac, The Passenger, Picador, 450/33, Shannon Burns
McCLELLAND, Roanna, The Comforting Weight of Water, Wakefield Press, 457/30, J.R. Burgmann
McCOOEY, David, The Book of Falling, Upswell, 452/50 and 454/47, Judith Bishop
McGRATH, Ann, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy, Everywhere: Australia and the language of deep history, UNSW Press, 458/20, Leonie Stevens
McKAY, Laura Jean, Gunflower, Scribe, 460/43, Susan Midalia
McKENZIE, Nick, Crossing the Line, Hachette, 456/11, Kevin Foster
McMULLIN, Ross, Life So Full of Promise: Further biographies of Australia’s lost generation, Scribe, 454/15, Raelene Francis
McPHEE-BROWN, Laura, Little Plum, Text Publishing, 451/31, Debra Adelaide
McPHERSON, Kira, Higher Education, Ultimo Press, 451/30, Debra Adelaide
MEAD, Rachel, The Art of Breaking Ice, Affirm Press, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
MEEHAN, Michael, An Ungrateful Instrument, Transit Lounge, 453/33, Graham Strahle
MILDENHALL, Kate, The Hummingbird Effect, Scribner, 456/28, Cassandra Atherton
MILLER, Alex, A Brief Affair, Allen & Unwin, 450/32, Penny Russell
MILLER, Alex, A Kind of Confession: The writer’s private world, Allen & Unwin, 460/18, Brenda Walker
MILLER, Suzie, Prima Facie, Picador, 460/38, Diane Stubbings
MITCHELL, Heather, Everything and Nothing: A memoir, 456/24, Tim Byrne
MITCHELL, James, Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940–1942, Hardie Grant, 460/53, Michael McKernan
MOLLOY, Shannon, You Made Me This Way, Fourth Estate, 452/19, Anders Villani
MOORE, Lorrie, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Faber, 457/34, Kirsten Tranter
MORRISSEY, John, Firelight, Text, 458/52, Claire G. Coleman
MOULLAKIS, Joyce and Chris Wright, The Millionaires’ Factory: The inside story of how Macquarie became a global giant, Allen & Unwin, 453/18, Michael Easson
NEEDHAM, Kylie, Girl in a Pink Dress, Penguin, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson
NEILL, Sam, Did I Ever Tell You This? A memoir, Text Publishing, 456/24, Tim Byrne
NISBET, Gemma, The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty, Upswell, 460/56, Francesca Sasnaitis
NIX, Garth, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Allen & Unwin, 459/32, Ben Chandler
NOVAK, Genevieve, Crushing, HarperCollins, 454/36, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
NOWRA, Louis, Sydney: A biography, NewSouth, 450/57, Gay Bilson
O’FAIRCHEALLAIGH, Ciaran, Indigenous Peoples and Mining: A global perspective, OUP, 459/33, Deanna Kemp
O’GRADY, Emily, Feast, Allen & Unwin, 456/34, Diane Stubbings
O’KEEFE, Angela, The Sitter, University of Queensland Press, 457/29, Naama Grey-Smith
ODELL, Jenny, Saving Time: Discovering a life beyond the clock, Bodley Head, 453/46, Tim McMinn
OGILVIE, Sarah, The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary, Chatto & Windus, 459/46, Ian Britain
OLUBAS, Brigitta, Shirley Hazzard: A writing Life, Virago, 451/18, Frances Wilson
ORD, Mandy, Bulk Nuts, Gazebo Books, 460/44, Bernard Caleo
PAGE, Geoff, 101 Poems: 2011-2021, Pitt Street Poetry, Paul Hetherington, online only
PALMER, Shannyn, Unmaking Angas Downs: History and myth on a Central Australian pastoral station, Melbourne University Press, 451/13, Eleanor Hogan
PAMUK, Orhan (translated by Ekin Oklap), Nights of Plague, Hamish Hamilton, 451/32, Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam
PATEL, Zoya, Once A Stranger, Hachette, Rafqa Touma, online only
PATERSON, Susan, Where Light Meets Water, Simon & Schuster, 453/34, Susan Midalia
PETERS-LITTLE, Frances, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta man, Hardie Grant Publishing, 454/30, Philip Morrissey
PHILLIPS, Carl, My Trade Is Mystery: Seven meditations from a life in writing, Yale University Press, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
PHILPS, Alan, The Red Hotel: The untold story of Stalin’s disinformation war, Headline, 458/45, Sheila Fitzpatrick
PICK-GOSLAR, Hannah, with Dina Kraft, My Friend Anne Frank, Ebury Publishing, 457/46, Tali Lavi
PIM, Keiron, Endless Flight: The life of Joseph Roth, Granta, 451/48, Joachim Redner
PINCKNEY, Darryl, Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, riverrun, 452/16, Peter Rose
PITTOCK, Murray, Scotland: The global history – 1603 to the present, Yale University Press, 450/56, Gordon Pentland
PORTER, Max, Shy, Faber, 453/35, Diane Stubbings
PRETTY, Ron, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 453/51, Sam Ryan
PRIOR, Robin, Conquer We Must: A military history of Britain 1914-1945, Yale University Press, 456/16, Joan Beaumont
RADFORD, Ron, John Glover: Patterdale farm and the revelation of the Australian landscape, Ovata Press, 457/62, Anne Gray
REES, Peter, I am Tim: Life, politics, and beyond, MUP, 459/44, Joshua Black
REGIS, Ed, Science, Secrecy and the Smithsonian: The strange history of the Pacific Ocean biological survey, Oxford University Press, 453/12, Billy Griffiths
RICHARDS, Michael, A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press, National Library of Australia, 451/25, Brenda Niall
RILEY, Charlotte Lydia, Imperial Island: A history of empire in modern Britain, Bodley Head, 460/23, Jon Piccini
RILEY, Erin, A Real Piece of Work: A memoir in essays, Viking, 458/49, Yves Rees
RISEMAN, Noah, Transgender Australia: A history since 1910, Melbourne University Press, Jack Nicholls, online only
RITCHIE, Brendan, Eta Draconis, UWA Publishing, 457/30, J.R. Burgmann
ROBIN, Libby, What Birdo Is That? A field guide to bird people, Melbourne University Publishing, 454/53, Peter Monkhurst
ROBINSON, Jennifer and Keina Yoshida, How Many More Women? Exposing how to the law silences women, Allen & Unwin, 450/24, Kim Rubenstein
ROYAL, Autumn, The Drama Student, Giramondo, 455/50, Chris Arnold
RUDENKO, Serhii, Zelensky: A biography, Polity Press, 451/14, Nick Hordern
RUSHDIE, Salman, Victory City, Jonathan Cape, 451/29, Geordie Williamson
RUSSELL, Catherine, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck, University of Illinois Press, 457/61, Felicity Chaplin
RUSSELL, Meg and Lisa James, The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit, Oxford University Press, 454/18, Ben Wellings
SALES, Leigh, Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism, Scribner, 458/44, Patrick Mullins
SARTRE, Jean-Paul (translated by Carol Cosman, edited by Joseph S. Catalano), The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, an abridged edition, University of Chicago Press, 453/43, Brian Nelson
SAVILLE, Margot, The Teal Revolution: Inside the movement changing Australian politics, Hardie Grant Books, 450/20, Dennis Altman
SAVVA, Niki, Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise, Scribe, 450/14, Mark Kenny
SAYER, Mandy, Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team, NewSouth, 450/60, Desley Deacon
SCOTT, Kate, Compulsion, Hamish Hamilton, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
SCOTT, Ronnie, Shirley, Hamish Hamilton, 452/40, Morgan Nunan
SCRIMSHAW, Danielle, She and Her Pretty Friend, Ultimo Press, 455/55, Susan Sheridan
SILVERSTEIN, Jordana, Cruel Care: A history of children at our borders, Monash University Publishing, 456/23, Amy Nethery
SIMONS, John, Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life, Sydney University Press, 455/51, Danielle Clode
SIMONS, Margaret, Tanya Plibersek: On her own terms, Black Inc., 452/29, Patrick Mullins
SINGER, Hayley, Abandon Every Hope, Upswell, 451/59, Ben Brooker
SMITH, Aisling, After the Rain, Hachette, 455/40, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
SMITH, Dominic, Return to Valetto, Allen & Unwin, 454/35, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SMITH, Fred, The Sparrows of Kabul, Puncher & Wattmann, 460/20, Kevin Foster
SMITH, Simon, A Man of Honour, Echo Publishing, 452/38, Stephen Knight
SODEN, Oliver, Masquerade: The lives Of Noël Coward, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 456/52, Paul Kildea
SONENSCHER, Michael, Capitalism: The story behind the word, Princeton University Press, 455/32, Knox Peden
SPICER, Tracey, Mand-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, Simon & Schuster, 459/50, Ruby O’Connor
STAVANGER, David, Radhiah Chowdhury, and Mohammad Awad (eds), Admissions: Voices within mental health, Upswell, James Dunk, online only
STELL, Marion, The Bodyline Fix: How women saved cricket, University of Queensland Press, 451/61, Diane Stubbings
STERN, Philip J., Empire, Incorporated: The corporations that built British colonialism, Harvard, 458/46, Clinton Fernandes
STINSON, Emmett, Murnane, Miegunyah Press, 456/53, Shannon Burns
STONE, Alison, Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press, 454/42, Karen Green
SZE, Gillian, quite night think, ECW Press, 453/47, Felicity Plunkett
TAYLOR, Andrew, Shore Lines, Pitt Street Poetry, 456/57, Geoff Page
THOMPSON, Michael, How to be Remembered, Allen & Unwin, 453/36, Lisa Bennett
TILLERS, Imants, Credo, Giramondo, 451/39, Sophie Knezic
TOYNBEE, Polly, An Uneasy Inheritance: My family and other radicals, Atlantic, 459/34, James Antoniou
TREDINNICK, Mark, Walking Underwater, Pitt Street Poetry, 450/46, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
TRUMBLE, Angus, Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years, La Trobe University Press, 457/44, Ian Britain
TSIOLKAS, Christos, The In-Between, Allen & Unwin, 459/28, Shannon Burns
TURNER, Graeme, The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what can be done about it, UQP, 458/60, Zora Simic
TURNER, Marion, The Wife of Bath, Princeton University Press, 456/56, Morag Fraser
TWYFORD-MOORE, Sam, Cast Mates: Australian actors in Hollywood and at home, NewSouth, 456/64, Jordan Prosser
VAROUFAKIS, Yanis, Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism, Bodley Head, 459/22, Nathan Holler
VILLANI, Anders, Totality, Recent Works Press, 450/39, Maria Takolander
VINCENT, Eve, Who Cares? Life on welfare in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 452/45, Shannon Burns
WALLACE, Chris, Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers, UNSW Press, 452/27, James Walter
WALSH, Toby, Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI, La Trobe University Press, 451/60, Dante Aloni
WARD, Stuart, Untied Kingdom: A global history of the end of Britain, Cambridge University Press, 456/13, Gordon Pentland
WATSON, Don, The Passion of Private White, Scribner, 450/11, Tom Griffiths
WESLEY, Michael, Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, Melbourne University Press, 455/46, Ceridwen Spark
WESLEY, Michael, Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian life, La Trobe University Press, 456/21, John Byron
WILLIAMS, Pip, The Bookbinder of Jericho, Affirm Press, 453/31, Jane Sullivan
WILSON, Sean, Gemini Falls, Affirm Press, Samuel Bernard, online only
WINDSOR, Gerard, On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world, Little, Brown, 453/52, Gerard Windsor
WINTER, Tim, The Silk Road: Connecting histories and futures, Oxford University Press, 452/49, Robert Wellington
WOHLLEBEN, Peter (translated by Jane Billinghurst), The Power of Trees: How ancient forests can save us if we let them, Black Inc., 455/54, Ruby Ekkel
WOLF, Misbah, Carapace, Vagabond Press, 451/45, Prithvi Varatharajan
WOLFF, Michael, The Fall: The end of the Murdoch Empire, The Bridge Street Press, 460/24, Walter Marsh
WOLPE, Bruce, Trump’s Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term, Allen & Unwin, 457/14, Emma Shortis
WOMERSLEY, Chris, Ordinary Gods and Monsters, Picador, 457/32, Jennifer Mills
WOOD, Charlotte, Stone Yard Devotional, Allen & Unwin, 460/39, Jennifer Mills
WOOD, Michael, Marcel Proust, OUP, 459/54, Andrea Goldsmith
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, West Girls, Scribe, 458/54, Mindy Gill
WRIGHT, Alexis, Praiseworthy, Giramondo, 452/37, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
WYNN SCHWARTZ, Selby, After Sappho, Text Publishing, 45/42, Ruth McHugh-Dillon
YATES, Dean, Line in the Sand, Macmillan, 455/45, Kevin Foster
YOUNG, Sally, Media Monsters: The transformation of Australia’s newspaper empires, UNSW Press, 455/15, Patrick Mullins
YU, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, But the Girl, Hamish Hamilton, 458/56, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyan
ZELENSKY, Volodymyr, A Message From Ukraine, Hutchinson Heinemann, 451/14, Nick Hordern
ZYGAR, Mikhail, War and Punishment: The story of Russian oppression and Ukrainian resistance, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 457/20, Nick Hordern
Π.O., The Tour, Giramondo, 459/36, Francesca Sasnaitis
2023 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Commentary
GARDINER, Thea, ‘Women philanthropists in our galleries’, online only
LOGAN, Cameron, ‘Architecture and the new national cultural policy’, online only
Maria Callas, Ian Dickson, online only
Festivals
2023 Sydney International Piano Competition Opening Gala, Malcolm Gillies, online only
Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Des Cowley, online only
Film/Television/Streaming
A Haunting in Venice (Twentieth Century), Philippa Hawker, online only
Aftersun (Kismet), Jo Stubbings, online only
Alcarràs (Palace Films), Stefan Solomon, online only
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Madman Entertainment), Anne Rutherford, online only
Asteroid City (Universal Pictures), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Beau is Afraid (Roadshow), Jordan Prosser, online only
Broker (Madman Entertainment), Michael Sun, online only
Caravaggio Shadow (Italian Film Festival), Angela Viora, online only
Corsage (Vendetta Films), James Cleverley, online only
Dalíland (Kismet), 456/66, Philippa Hawker
EO (Hi Gloss Entertainment), Anthony Frajman, online only
Godland (Palace Films), Stefan Solomon, online only
John Farnham (Beyond Oz), Joshua Black, online only
Killers of the Flower Moon (Paramount), 459/63, Philippa Hawker
La Chimera (Italian Film Festival), Felicity Chaplin, online only
Limbo (Bunya Productions), Anne Rutherford, online only
Maestro (Netflix Original), Jordan Prosser, online only
Napoleon (Sony), Philippa Hawker, online only
November (Palace Films), 454/58, Felicity Chaplin
One Fine Morning (Palace Films), Philippa Hawker, online only
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures Australia), Jordan Prosser, online only
Past Lives (StudioCanal), 458/64, Michael Sun
Reality (Kismet), Stefan Solomon, online only
Run Rabbit Run (Netflix Original), Anthony Frajman, online only
Saint Omer (Palace Films), 455/60, Anwen Crawford
Shayda (Madman Entertainment), Anne Rutherford, online only
Sick of Myself (Static Vision), Stefan Solomon, online only
TÁR (Universal Pictures Australia), 451/64. Jordan Prosser
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures), 450/67, Jordan Prosser
The Old Oak (Palace), Stefan Solomon, online only
The Son (Transmission Films), Tim Byrne, online only
The Teachers’ Lounge (German Film Festival), James Cleverley, online only
The Whale (Madman Entertainment), Jo Stubbings, online only
The Zone of Interest (A24), 460/59, Diane Stubbings
Un Couple (MIFF), Anthony Frajman, online only
Music
All Rise (Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Des Cowley, online only
An Australian Songbook (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Chris Reid, online only
Australian Chamber Orchestra (Ukaria Festival), Graham Strahle, online only
Juan Diego Flórez in Recital (Arts Centre Melbourne), 460/58, Peter Rose
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (Australian World Orchestra), Malcolm Gillies, online only
Mahler’s Seventh (London Symphony Orchestra), 454/59, Michael Shmith
Melbourne Jazz Co-Operative (Melbourne Recital Centre), Des Cowley, online only
Midsummer Dreams(The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra), Malcolm Gillies, online only
Mozart and Beethoven Concertos (Melbourne Chamber Orchestra), Peter Tregear, online only
Ngapa William Cooper (Adelaide Festival), 452/59, Graham Strahle
Sibyl (Sydney Opera House), Michael Halliwell, online only
Steven Osborne (Ukaria Cultural Centre), Graham Strahle, online only
Opera
A Deep Black Sleep (IHOS Amsterdam), Sarah Day, online only
Adriana Lecouvreur (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Antarctica (Sydney Chamber Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Biographica (Theatre Works), Peter Tregear, online only
Das Rheingold (Royal Opera House), 459/61, John Allison
Das Rheingold Die Walküre (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Das Rheingold Die Walküre (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Das Rheingold (Royal Opera House), John Allison, online only
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Melbourne Opera), 453/58, Peter Rose
Die Frau ohne Schatten and Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper), Peter Rose, online only
Earth. Voice. Body (Sydney Chamber Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Idomeneo (Victorian Opera and Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Juan Diego Flórez in Recital (Castiglione Arts & Culture), Peter Rose, online only
La Gioconda (Opera Australia), 457/64, Peter Rose
Maria Stuarda (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Michael Fabiano in Concert (Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Otello, Hamlet, War and Peace (Bayerische Staatsoper), Michael Halliwell, online only
Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Melbourne Opera), Peter Rose, online only
Siegfried Götterdämmerung ½ (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Tannhäuser (Opera Australia), Michael Shmith, online only
The Makropulos Case (Opéra National de Paris), Peter Rose, online only
The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Line Productions), 455/59, Kirk Dodd
Bernhardt/Hamlet (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings, online only
Death of a Salesman (Her Majesty’s Theatre), 458/65, Diane Stubbings
Do Not Go Gentle (Sydney Theatre Company), 455/62, Clare Monagle
Escaped Alone (Melbourne Theatre Company), 457/65, Diane Stubbings
Exiles (Bloomsday in Melbourne), Ronan McDonald, online only
Far Away (Patalog Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only
Flake (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), Ben Brooker, online only
Happy Days (Melbourne Theatre Company), 454/63, Ronan McDonald
Into the Woods (Belvoir St Theatre), Ian Dickson, online only
Julia (Sydney Theatre Company), 453/58, Clare Monagle
Julius Caesar (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Melbourne Theatre Company), 459/60, Ian Dickson
Loaded (Malthouse Theatre), Ben Brooker, online only
Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare), 452/56, Kirk Dodd
My Sister Jill (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings, online only
Nosferatu (Malthouse Theatre), Guy Webster, online only
Oil (Sydney Theatre Company), Patrick Lau, , online only
Orlando (Antipodes Theatre Company), Guy Webster, online only
Prima Facie (Melbourne Theatre Company), 451/65, Diane Stubbings
Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare), Kirk Dodd, online only
The Chairs (Redline Productions), 458/67, Ian Dickson
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? (Sydney Theatre Company), Ian Dickson, online only
The Master & Margarita (Belvoir St Theatre), Ian Dickson, online only
The Poison of Polygamy (La Boite and Sydney Theatre Company), 455/58, Josh Stenberg
The Seagull (Sydney Theatre Company), Clare Monagle, online only
The Tempest (Sydney Theatre Company), 450/61, Kirk Dodd
What If If Only (Melbourne Theatre Company), 457/65, Diane Stubbings
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 460/60, Ben Brooker
Wittenoom (Red Stitch), Tim Byrne, online only
Worstward Ho (Victorian Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only
Visual Arts
Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media (The Art Gallery of South Australia), 452/54, Patrick Flanery
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium (Heide Museum of Modern Art), 450/62, Sophie Knezic
Catherine Opie: Binding Ties (Heide), Kelly Gellatly, online only
Imagine … the Wonder of Picture Books (State Library of New South Wales), Margaret Robson Kett, online only
Kandinsky (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 460/62, Roger Benjamin
Melbourne Now 2023 (National Gallery of Victoria), 453/63, Sophie Knezic
Peter Tyndall (Buxton Contemporary), 451/66, Jarrod Zlatic
Photography Real and Imagined (National Gallery of Victoria), Alison Stieven-Taylor, online only
Pre-Raphaelites Drawings & Watercolours (Art Gallery of Ballarat), Christopher Menz, online only
Radical Utopia An archeology of a creative city (RMIT Gallery), Jarrod Zlatic, online only
Rembrandt – True to Life (National Gallery of Victoria), 456/67, Roger Benjamin
Sydney Modern (Art Gallery of New South Wales), Julie Ewington, online only
SYNERGY (Drill Hall Gallery), 454/56, Saskia Beudel
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (National Gallery of Australia), Saskia Beudel, online only
Thin Skin (Monash University Museum of Art), Jarrod Zlatic, online only
Essays and Commentary
ALTMAN, Dennis, ‘Frozen between despair and denial: The role of Australian Jews in an intractable conflict’, 456/8
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘A referendum in trouble: Race, rights and history talk in 1967 and 2023’, 455/10
ATTWOOD, Bain, ‘Turning a blind eye: The referendum and the burden of history’, 460/11
BOYCE, James, ‘Soul shifts: Reflections on Richard Flanagan’s Question 7’, 460/27
CASTAN, Melissa and Lynette Russell, ‘Ancient sovereignty shining through: A Voice to parliament, not a Voice in parliament’, 458/9
CORBETT, Jack, ‘Statehood á la carte: Sovereignty games in the Pacific Islands’, 455/23
CURRAN, James, ‘Exorcising the ghosts: Australia’s new, old foreign policy’, 452/8
CURRAN, James, ‘Stanner in reverse: A response to Clare Wright’, 457/13
DEANE, Joel, ‘A maddening country: The long political shadow of John Howard’, 460/15
DEANE, Joel, ‘The Great Australian Intemperance: Thoughts on a time of unbottled rage’, 457/9
DICKSON, Ian, ‘Letter from London’, 450/47
DINIĆ, Jelena, ‘‘Come closer and listen’: A tribute to Charles Simic (1938 – 2023)’, 459/47
EWINGTON, Julie, ‘Lyrical Layers at AGNSW: A new landmark building in Sydney’, 452/32
HAMILTON, Debi, ‘The tyranny of sound: The world’s addiction to background noise’, 452/25
HODA, Rashina, ‘A tale of two species: Balancing new technology and ethical considerations’, 459/51
HOLMAN, Zoe, ‘“Call it a revolution”: From falling veils to a failing regime’, 450/8
KAVANAGH, Siobhan, ‘The Morning Belongs to Us’, 459/38
KENNY, Mark, ‘Labor’s year in clover: The challenges facing Peter Dutton’, 454/9
KONISHI, Shino, Julie Andrews, Odette Best, Brenda L. Croft, Steve Kinnane, Greg Lehman, and Uncle John Whop, ‘Who’s your mob?: An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography’, 458/24
LAIDLAW, Zoë, ‘‘You take um up my land for me’: An Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne’, 458/28
LEY, James, ‘‘Not like an arrow, but a boomerang’: Ralph Ellison and literary humanism’, 460/45
LEY, James, ‘An obscure prodigy: J.M. Coeztee’s Life and Time of Michael K at forty’, 456/50
LILLEY, Kate, ‘Intricacies of aliveness: A personal tribute to John Tranter (1943-2023)’, 454/24
LOGAN, Cameron, ‘Beyond real estate: The role of architecture in cultural policy’, 452/57
LYNCH, Timothy J., ‘Enough already!: Post-Trump America returns to the centre’, 450/17
MANDERSON, Desmond, ‘Yunupingu’s song: Constitution as acts of vision, not of division’, 457/24
MILLS, Jennifer, ‘A revival meeting at the Espy: Labor’s new National Cultural Policy’, 451/8
MYERS, David N., ‘Dem-o-krat-yah now!: The egregious erosion of democracy in Israel’, 453/8
NILSSON, Ebony, ‘“A happy white men’s club”: The Australian Labor Party’s uneasy history with immigration’, 455/29
OGILVIE, Sarah, ‘The Melbourne Dictionary People: Active service to the mother tongue’, 457/40
PENTLAND, Gordon, ‘Parlour games: Britain and the anaesthesia of nostalgia’, 453/21
ROLPH, David, ‘Self-inflicted wounds: A vindication of investigative journalism’, 455/17
ROLPH, David, ‘Who blinks first: Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey’, 454/11
TWOMEY, Anne, ‘Voiceless in Australia: Will we ever have another referendum?’, 460/9
WRIGHT, Alexis, ‘The sovereign time of Country: Living in the pulse and heartbeat of an infinite clock’, 458/12
ZUBRZYCKI, John, ‘Politics by other means: India addresses centuries of humiliation’, 454/20
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
ELLIS, Tracy, ‘Flow States’, 453/24
VINCENT, Bridget, ‘Child Adjacent’, 454/27
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ANDREWS, Chris, ‘Loss-invaded Catalogue’, 450/41
ARNOLD, Chris, ‘Running Up That Bill’, 450/41
CAHILL, Michelle, ‘Field Notes for an Albatross Palimpsest’, 450/44
DISNEY, Dan, ‘periferal, fantasmal’, 450/43
TOLCHINSKY, Raisa, ‘Abiquiu, New Mexico’ , 450/40
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
BEL, Winter, ‘Black Wax’, 456/36
HEATH, Rowan, ‘The Mannequin’, 456/41
KHAN, Uzma Aslam, ‘Our Own Fantastic’, 456/46
Interviews
Open Page
ALEXANDRA, Belinda, 456/62
DALGARNO, Paul, 450/51
HEISS, Anita, 458/30
JOSE, Nicholas, 459/57
McKENZIE, Nick, 455/56
McMULLIN, Ross, 454/49
WILLIAMS, Pip, 452/52
Poet of the Month
DISNEY, Dan, 453/49
JACKSON, Andy, 457/56
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 456/59
Publisher of the Month
HUGHES, Martin, 453/56
SCOTT, Barry, 451/62
SMITH, Yasmin, 458/41
Critic of the Month
STUBBINGS, Diane, 459/37
Backstage
ARCHER, Robyn, 454/61
EVANS, Peter, 457/67
MACKENZIE, Ruth, 460/61
MORSE, Helen, 455/63
Poetry
Poems
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘Hawkesbury’, 451/49
BRADY, Andrea, ‘Canterbury Bell’, 457/53
COLEMAN, Aidan, ‘Metric’, 459/35
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘If Looks Could Kill’, 460/14
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, 451/49
FARELL, Michael, ‘Christmas In Brogo’, 453/39
FLEMING, Joan, ‘Coins, Glass, Nails, Pottery, Cinders’, 453/45
HOLT, L.K., ‘Nina in the Hag Mask’, 456/55
JANSON, Julie, ‘Kurraarr Far Country’, 451/41
JANSON, Julie, ‘Minyerri (now marked for fracking)’, 458/33
JOHNSON, Frances A., ‘Painted Weather’, 454/51
KINSELLA, John, ‘Apotheoses and the Hölderlin Monument, Old Botanical Gardens, Tübingen’, 460/28
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Reading the Conditions’, 455/27
MEAD, Philip, ‘Déjà Rêvé’, 452/21
O’BRIEN, Damen, ‘The Pelican Feeder’, 451/57
PAGE, Geoff, ‘Endings’, 459/21
SALOM, Philip, ‘A Vladimir Taxonomy’, 456/25
SAMUELS, Lisa, ‘Dise’, 455/43
SAUNDERS, Kirli, ‘Go Rogue’, 458/23
VILLANI, Anders, ‘Wallpaper’, 457/47
WEBSTER, H.R., ‘Death by Drowning’, 459/45
Surveys
Books of the Year
ATTWOOD, Bain, 460/31
BIRCH, Tony, 460/33
BONGIORNO, Frank, 460/33
BRADLEY, James, 460/36
COWLEY, Des, 460/36
DAVIS, Glyn, 460/34
DEANE, Joel, 460/31
GILES, Paul, 460/29
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 460/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 460/34
HAWKE, John, 460/35
HOFMANN, Michael, 460/35
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 460/32
KELLS, Stuart, 460/31
LAKE, Marilyn, 460/36
LEY, James, 460/34
McKENNA, Mark, 460/36
MEAD, Philip, 460/31
MILLS, Jennifer, 460/32
MULLINS, Patrick, 460/32
PENDER, Kieren, 460/35
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 460/32
REES, Yves, 460/33
ROSE, Peter, 460/33
RUSSELL, Lynette, 460/36
RUSSELL, Penny, 460/32
SHORTIS, Emma, 460/32
SILCOX, Beejay, 460/35
SIMIC, Zora, 460/29
STUBBINGS, Diane, 460/33
WALKER, Brenda, 460/36
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 460/33
WILSON, Frances, 460/29
Arts Highlights
ARCHER, Robyn, 450/64
BOWER, Humphrey, 450/66
BROOKER, Ben, 450/65
BYRNE, Tim, 450/64
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 450/65
COWLEY, Des, 450/65
DICKSON, Ian, 450/65
EWINGTON, Julie, 450/64
FORD, Andrew, 450/64
HALLIWELL, Michael, 450/66
KNEZIC, Sophie, 450/66
PROSSER, Jordan, 450/65
ROSE, Peter, 450/66
RUTHERFORD, Anne, 450/65
SHMITH, Michael, 450/64
STUBBINGS, Diane, 450/64
TREGEAR, Peter, 450/66
Tribute
TREGEAR, Peter, ‘Vale Barry Humphries: The great comedian’s love affair with Weimar Germany’, 454/60