ABR Index 2018
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2018.
2018 Australian Book Review Index
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ABBS, Carolyn, The Tiny Museums, UWAP Poetry, 401/40, Joan Fleming
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, The Lebs, Hachette, 399/34, Jay Daniel Thompson
AIKEN, Michael, Satan Repentant, UWA Publishing, 405/57, David Dick
AITKEN, Adam, Archipelago, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ALBISTON, Jordie, Warlines, Hybrid, 406/47, David McCooey
ALCOFF, Linda Martin, Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation, Polity, 402/9, Alecia Simmonds
ALLEN, Elizabeth, Present, Vagabond Press, 401/44, David Dick
ARNOTT, Robbie, Flames, Text Publishing, 401/37, Amy Baillieu
ATHERTON, Michael, A Coveted Possession: The rise and fall of the piano in Australia, La Trobe University Press, 405/69, Gillian Wills
ATKINS, Clare, Between Us, Black Inc., 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
ATKINS, Peter, Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature, Oxford University Press, 403/62, Robyn Williams
ATKINSON, Meera, Traumata, UQP, 403/54, Ceridwen Spark
ATTENBOROUGH, David, Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest expeditions, Two Roads, 398/24, Danielle Clode
AVERILL, Roger, Relatively Famous, Transit Lounge, 401/36, Shannon Burns
BALL, Jesse, Census, Text Publishing, 402/21, Beejay Silcox
BANNOS, Pamela, Vivian Maier: A photographer’s life and afterlife, University of Chicago Press, 399/64, Helen Ennis
BANVILLE, John, Mrs Osmond, Viking, 398/25, Brenda Niall
BARNES, John, La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor, Halstea Press, 398/34, John Arnold
BECK, Luke, Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution: Origins and future, Routledge, 403/66, David Rolph
BELL, Stephen and Michael Keating, Fair Share: Competing claims and Australia’s economic future, Melbourne University Press, 402/14, Richard Walsh
BENEBA CLARKE, Maxine (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2017, Black Inc., 398/28, Rachel Robertson
BENNETTS, Alexander (ed.), The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two, Brow Books, 398/57, Dan Dixon
BERESFORD, Bruce, The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts, Text Publishing, 398/65, Desley Deacon
BERESFORD, Quentin, Adani and the War Over Coal, NewSouth, 405/18, Susan Reid
BERRY, Vanessa, Mirror Sydney, Giramondo, 398/50, Lucas Thompson
BETTS, A.J., Hive, Pan Macmillan, 405/58, Margaret Robson Kent
BEVERIDGE, Judith, Sun Music: New and selected poems, Giramondo, 404/43, Judith Bishop
BISHOP, Judith, Interval, UQP, 400/65, Jill Jones
BISHOP, Stephanie, Man Out of Time, Hachette, 404/35, Johanna Leggatt
BOOCHANI, Behrouz, translated by Omid Tofighian, No Friend but the Mountains, Picador, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
BORDWELL, David, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling, University of Chicago Press, 402/37, Desley Deacon
BRADFORD, David, Tell Me I’m Okay: A doctor’s story, Monash University Publishing, 403/61, Robert Reynolds
BRAYSHAW, Ian, Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror, Hardie Grant Books, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
BRENNER, Michael, In Search of Israel: The history of an idea, Princeton University Press, 403/55, Mark Baker
BROPHY, Kevin, Look at the Lake, Puncher & Wattmann, 404/45, Joan Fleming
BROWN, Craig, Ma’am Darling: Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret, Fourth Estate, 401/26, David Rolph
BROWN, Gordon, My Life, Our Times, Vintage, 406/49, Simon Tormey
BROWN, Pam, Click Here For What We Do, Vagabond Press, 403/69, Tim Wright
BROWN, Tina, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 398/23, Susan Wyndham
BUTLER, Rex and Sheridan Palmer (eds), Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith, Monash University Publishing, 405/53, Brian Matthews
CALLOWAY, Colin G., The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation, Oxford University Press, 407/63, Josh Specht
CAMPBELL, Marion May, The Man on the Mantelpiece: A memoir, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
CARR, Bob, Run For Your Life, Melbourne University Press, 404/20, Stephen Mills
CHAN, Gabrielle, Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up, Vintage, 406/12, Shaun Crowe
CHAPLIN, Felicity, La Parisienne in Cinema: Between art and life, Manchester University Press, 402/33, Philippa Hawker
CHAUDHURI, Amit, The Origins of Dislike, Oxford University Press, 407/55, Robert Dessaix
CHRISTOPHER, Emma, Freedom in White and Black: A lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy, University of Wisconsin Press, online only, Trevor Burnard
COCHRANE, Peter, Best We Forget: The war for white Australia, 1914-18, Text Publishing, 403/11, Marilyn Lake
COCHRANE, Peter, The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning, Viking, 406/53, David Whish-Wilson
COHEN, Bernard, When I Saw the Animal, UQP, 406/39, Anthony Lynch
COHEN, David, The Hunter and Other Stories of Men, Transit Lounge, 405/21, Sophie Frazer
COHEN, Marcelo, translated by Chris Andrews, Melodrome, Giramondo, 406/52, Alice Whitmore
COHEN, Mitchell, The Politics of Opera: A history from Monteverdi to Mozart, Princeton University Press, 398/66, Michael Halliwell
COLE, Catherine, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark, UWA Publishing, 398/52, Rachael Mead
COLLINS, Paul, Absolute Power: How the Pope became the most influential man in the world, PublicAffairs, 404/41, Gerard Windsor
COWEN, Lady Anna, My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982, Miegunyah Press, online only, Susan Magarey
CRESPINO, Joseph, Atticus Finch: The biography, Basic Books, 404/10, Clare Corbould
CREWS, Frederick, Freud: The making of an illusion, Profile Books, 399/15, Nick Haslam
CRYLE, Peter and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A critical genealogy, University of Chicago Press, 401/46, James Bennett
CUSK, Rachel, Kudos, Faber, 403/28, Kirsten Tranter
DALLEK, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A political life, Allen Lane, 401/23, Andrew Broertjes
DAVIS, Richard, Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender, Wakefield Press, 399/68, Ian Dickson
DAVISON, Graeme (ed.), Hugh Stretton: Selected writings, La Trobe University Press, 407/25, Tom Griffiths
DAY, Greogry, A Sand Archive, Picador, 401/34, Gillian Dooley
DAY, Sarah, Towards Light & Other Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 406/47, David McCooey
DEKKERS, Midas, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, The Story of Shit, Text Publishing, 402/53, Lauren Fuge
DER-WEI WANG, David (ed.), A New Literary History of Modern China, Harvard, 398/15, Nicholas Jose
DIMÓPULOS, Mariana, translated by Alice Whitmore, All My Goodbyes, Giramondo, 398/29, Lilit Thwaites
DISHER, Gary, Her, Hachette, 398/51, Anna MacDonald
DIXON, Robert (ed.), Richard Flanagan: New critical essays, Sydney University Press, 403/42, Susan Lever
DOBLIN, Alfred, translated by Michael Hofmann, Berlin Alexanderplatz, New York Review Books Classics, 402/25, Joachim Redner
DOLLIMORE, Jonathan, Desire: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 401/27, Dion Kagan
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Crime and Punishment, Oxford University Press, 401/38, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
DOVEY, Ceridwen, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Hamish Hamilton, 400/55, Ashley Hay
DOVEY, Ceridwen, Writers on writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee, Black Inc., 406/27, Felicity Plunkett
DOVEY, Kim, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones (eds), Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985 - , Melbourne University Press, 405/39, Sara Savage
DREWE, Robert, The True Colour of the Sea, Hamish Hamilton, 404/33, Anthony Lynch
DUBERMAN, Martin, Has the Gay Movement Failed?, University of California Press, 404/46, Dennis Altman
DWYER, Philip, Napoleon: Passion, death and resurrection 1815-1840, 405/49, Bloomsbury, Peter McPhee
EDWARDS, John, John Curtin’s War: Volume I, Viking, 400/30, James Walter
EMERSON, Craig, The Boy from Brisbane, Scribe, 400/60, Lyndon Megarrity
ENGEL, Matthew, That’s the Way It Crumbles: The American conquest of English, Profile Books, 398/58, Bruce Moore
ETTLER, Justine, Bohemia Beach, Transit Lounge, 402/20, Fiona Wright
EVANS, Harold, Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why writing well matters, Abacus, 403/40, Richard Walsh
FARRELL, John A., Richard Nixon: The life, Scribe, 398/38, Andrew Broertjes
FERGUSON, Robert, Scandinavians: In search of the soul of the north, Overlook Press, 404/31, Kári Gíslason
FERNANDES, Clinton, Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy, Monash University Publishing, 405/21, David Brophy
FEWSTER, Alan, Three Duties and Talleyrand’s Dictum: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/27, Geoffrey Blainey
FINK, Hannah, Bronwyn Oliver: Strange things, Piper Press, 401/51, Brigitta Olubas
FLANNERY, Tim, Europe: A natural history, Text Publishing, 406/13, David Garrioch
FORD, Clementine, Boys Will Be Boys, Allen & Unwin, 406/17, Astrid Edward
FRAME, Tom and Albert Palazzo, Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian Army, UNSW Press, 399/57, Deborah Zion
FRANASZEK, Andrzej, Miłosz: A biography, Belknap Press, 398/41, Peter Goldsworthy
FRANCE, David, How to Survive a Plague: The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS, Picador, 398/51, Robert Reynolds
FRENKEL, Françoise, translated by Stephanie Smee, No Place to Lay One’s Head, Vintage, online only, Avril Alba
FRY, Stephen, Mythos, Michael Joseph, 400/44, Julia Kindt
GANDOLFO, Enza, The Bridge, Scribe, 402/24, Carol Middleton
GAPPS, Stephen, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817, NewSouth, 403/13, Alan Atkinson
GATLAND-VENESS, Meg, I Had Such Friends, Pantera Press, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
GAYFORD, Martin, Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters, Thames & Hudson, 405/67, Patrick McCaughey
GAYNOUR, Andrea, The Allure of Fungi, CSIRO Publishing, 405/31, Andrea Gaynor
GENONI, Paul and Tanya Dalziell, Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964, Monash University Publishing, 406/35, Brian Matthews
GERGIS, Joelle, Sunburnt Country: The history and future of climate change in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 405/34, Lauren Rickards
GINNA, Peter (ed.), What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing, University of Chicago Press, 400/63, Richard Walsh
GIOVANNONI, Moreno, The Fireflies of Autumn: And other tales of San Ginese, Black Inc., 403/32, Michael Brennan
GLASKIN, Katie, Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea, UWA Publishing, 401/18, Richard Martin
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2017, Black Inc., 399/24, Lucas Thompson
GORDON, Lyndall, Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world, Virago, 401/15, Dorothy Driver
GOW, Ian D., and Stuart Kells, The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly, La Trobe University Press/Black Inc., 402/13, Remy Davison
GRAEBER, David, Bullshit Jobs: A theory, Allen Lane, 403/14, Gideon Haigh
GREEN, Jonathan, Meanjin A-Z: Fine fiction 1980 to now, Melbourne University Press, 403/66, Francesca Sasnaitis
GRIFFITHS, Billy, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia, Black Inc, 400/38, Kim Mahood
HAGAN, Joe, Sticky Fingers: The life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine, Viking, 400/57, Anwen Crawford
HAIGH, Gideon, A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean, Hamish Hamilton, 400/42, Anna MacDonald
HAIGH, Gideon, Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way, Slattery Media Group, 406/44, Kieran Pender
HALDANE, Robert, The People’s Force: A history of Victoria Police, Melbourne University Press, 401/50, John Arnold
HALL, Rodney, A Stolen Season, Picador, 400/52, Brian Matthews
HALLIWELL, Michael, National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths reconsidered, Routledge, 407/74, Peter Tregear
HAM, Rosalie, The Year of the Farmer, Pan Macmillan, 405/47, Brenda Walker
HAMILTON, Clive, Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 400/11, David Brophy
HARDING, Luke, Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House, Guardian Books/Faber, 399/14, Varun Ghosh
HARRISON, Jennifer, Anywhy, Black Pepper, 406/47, David McCooey
HEMPENSTALL, Peter, Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology, University of Wisconsin Press, 400/40, Simon Caterson
HENRY-JONES, Eliza, P is for Pearl, Angus & Robertson, 405/59, Margaret Robson Kent
HENSHER, Philip, The Friendly Ones, Fourth Estate, 402/19, Robert Dessaix
HERSH, Seymour, Reporter: A memoir, Allen Lane, 404/17, Gideon Haigh
HESSLER, Stefanie (ed.), MIT Press, 405/23, Michael Adams
HILL, Barry, Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980-2017, Monash University Publishing, 401/12, Patrick McCaughey
HINTON, Les, The Bootle Boy: An untidy life in news, Les Hinton, 404/23, Michael Shmith
HOFMANN, Michael, One Lark, One Horse, Faber, 407/52, Philip Mead
HOMER, translated by Emily Wilson, The Odyssey, Wiley, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOMER, translated by Peter Green, The Iliad: A new translation, University of California Press, 407/16, Marguerite Johnson
HOOPER, Chloe, The Arsonist, Hamish Hamilton, 405/22, Fiona Gruber
HYNES, Samuel, On War and Writing, University of Chicago Press, 405/55, Robin Gerster
INGLIS, Ken, Seumas Spark, and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan, Dunera Lives: Volume 1: A visual history, Monash University Publishing, 404/24, Astrid Edwards
ISAAC, Geoff, Featherston, Thames & Hudson, 398/67, Christopher Menz
JAMES, Clive, The River in the Sky, Picador, 406/48, Geoff Page
JENKINS, Tiffany, Keeping Their Marbles: How the treasures of the past ended up in museums … and why they should stay there, Oxford University Press, 401/52, Christopher Allen
JENNER, Micheline, The Secret Life of Whales: A marine biologist’s revelations, NewSouth, 398/56, Rachael Mead
JOHNSON, Katherine, Matryoshka, Ventura Press, 406/40, Alice Nelson
JONES, Benjamin T., This Time: Australia’s republican past and future, Redback, 401/21, Billy Griffiths
JONES, Gail, The Death of Noah Glass, Text Publishing, 400/53, Kerryn Goldsworthy
JONES, Jill, Brink, Five Islands Press, 398/44, Toby Fitch
JONES, Jonah, An Introduction to Pontormo, Mauro Pagliai Editore, 404/63, Vivien Gaston
JONES, S.A., The Fortress, Echo Publishing, 401/44, Anna MacDonald
JORDAN, Deborah, Loving Words: Love letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer 1909-1914, Brandl & Schlesinger, 404/12, Brenda Niall
JORDAN, Toni, The Fragments, Text Publishing, 407/38, Suzanne Falkiner
JOSEV, Tanya, The Campaign Against the Courts: A history of the judicial activism debate, Federation Press, 398/55, John Eldridge
JUKES, Helen, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A year of keeping bees, Scribner, 405/32, Keegan O’Connor
KANE, Paul, A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina, White Crane, 407/48, David McCooey
KELLS, Stuart, Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature, Text Publishing, 405/68, David McInnis
KENNEDY, Sarah, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 404/14, James Ley
KILDEA, Paul, Chopin’s Piano: A journey through Romanticism, Allen Lane, 404/60, John Allison
KINDT, Julia, Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 399/60, Greta Hawes
KING, Jonathan, Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle, Scribe, 399/56, Martin Crotty
KINGSOLVER, Barbara, Unsheltered, Faber, 407/42, Nicole Abadee
KINLEY, David, Necessary Evil: How to fix finance by saving human rights, Oxford University Press, 404/27, Giovanni Di Lieto
KINSELLA, John and Paul Kane, Renga: 100 poems, GloriaSMH Press, 399/29, David McCooey
KLEINHENZ, Elizabeth, Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, Knopf, 407/12, Zora Simic
KRYNICKI, Ryszard, translated by Alissa Valles, Our Life Grows, NYRB Poets, 401/43, Benjamin Ivry
LAKE, Jessica, The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy, Yale, 401/49, Marama Whyte
LAKE, Meredith, The Bible in Australia: A cultural history, NewSouth, 401/8, Alan Atkinson
LATOUR, Bruno, Down to Earth: Politics in the new climate regime, Wiley, 405/20, Tim Flannery
LEIGH, Andrew, Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world, La Trobe University Press, 404/26, Michael Sexton
LEWIS, Rhodri, Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness, Princeton University Press, 399/51, David McInnis
LIBERMAN, Serge, The Storyteller: Selected stories, Serge Liberman, online only, Tali Lavi
LILLEY, Rozanna, Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life, UWA Publishing, 402/55, Susan Sheridan
LINDSEY, Tim and Dave McRae (eds), Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian century, Hart Publishing, 404/29, David Fettling
LOZANO, Rosina, An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States, University of California Press, 406/43, Timothy Verhoeven
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Too Much Lip, UQP, 405/46, Jane Sullivan
LUKINS, Robert, The Everlasting Sunday, UQP, 400/63, Anna MacDonald
MACINTYRE, Stuart, André Brett, and Gwilym Croucher, No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified national system of higher education, Melbourne University Press, 398/54, Paul Giles
MACLEAN, Nancy, Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, Scribe, 398/36, Max Holleran
MACRON, Emmanuel, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott, Revolution, Scribe, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Selected Poems 1967-2018, Quemar Press, 403/67, Gig Ryan
MALEKI, Mohammad Ali, translated by Mansour Shoushtari, Truth in the Cage, Rochford Street Press, 405/8, Felicity Plunkett
MALOUF, David, An Open Book, UQP, 407/47, Judith Bishop
MANNE, Robert, On Borrowed Time, Black Inc., 401/14, Shaun Crowe
MARR, David, My Country, Black Inc., 407/9, Glyn Davis
MASTERS, Chris, No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at war in Afghanistan, Allen & Unwin, 398/13, Kevin Foster
MAUNSELL, Jerome Boyd, Portraits from Life: Modernist novelists and autobiography, OUP, online only, Richard Freadman
MAUPIN, Armistead, Logical Family: A memoir, Doubleday, 399/54, Dennis Altman
MAY, Elaine Tyler, Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, Basic Books, 401/25, Max Holleran
McCANN, Joy, Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean, NewSouth, 405/35, Paul Humphries
McFARLANE, Brian, Making a Meal of it: Writing about film, Monash University Publishing, 402/45, Varun Ghosh
McGUINESS, Phillipa, The Year Everything Changed: 2001, Vintage, 402/49, Paul Morgan
McKNIGHT, David, Populism Now! The case for progressive populism, NewSouth, 403/57, Matteo Bonotti
McMAHON, Elizabeth and Brigitta Olubas, Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays, Sydney University Press, 399/53, Susan Sheridan
McMULLAN, Gordon et al., Antipodal Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, 404/22, David McInnis
McMULLIN, Ross, Pompey Elliott at War: In his own words, Scribe, 403/60, Geoffrey Blainey
MEAD, Philip, Zanzibar Light, Vagabond Press, 402/56, Judith Bishop
MENDILOW, Jonathan and Eric Phélippeau (eds), Handbook of Political Party Funding, Edward Elgar, online only, Stephen Mills
MEWBURN, Inger, How to be an Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all, NewSouth, 399/24, Kirk Graham
MEYRICK, Julian, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett, What Matters? Talking value in Australian culture, Monash University Publishing, 406/25, Gabrielle Coslovich
MICHAEL, Rose, The Art of Navigation, UWA Publishing, 398/38, Lisa Bennett
MIDALIA, Susan, The Art of Persuasion, Fremantle Press, 404/36, Sophie Frazer
MIDDLETON, Kate, Passage, Giramondo, 398/44, Toby Fitch
MILLS, Jennifer, Dyschronia, Picador, 399/38, James Bradley
MITCHELL, Stephen (translator), Beowulf, Yale, 399/27, Bruce Moore
MOLE, Tom, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history, Princeton University Press, 401/47, Michael Falk
MOORE, Lorrie, See What Can Be Done: Essays, criticisms, and commentary, Faber, 403/64, Lucas Thompson
MOORE, Peter, Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world, Vintage, 405/50, Alan Atkinson
MOORHEAD, Joanna, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, Virago Press, online only, Gabriel García Ochoa
MOORHOUSE, Frank, The Drover’s Wife, Knopf, 399/52, Paul Genoni
MORGAN, Margaret, The Second Cure, Vintage, 405/26, Jack Rowland
MORRIS, Heather, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Echo, 399/35, Tali Lavi
MSIMANG, Sisonke, Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home, Text Publishing, 403/53, Dorothy Driver
MURAKAMI, Haruki, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Killing Commendatore, 405/44, Harvill Secker, Cassandra Atherton
MURRAY, Les, Collected Poems, Black Inc., 407/44, Peter Goldsworthy
MURRAY, Ruby J., The Biographer’s Lover, Black Inc.,404/34, Suzanne Falkiner
NAMJOSHI, Suniti, Aesop the Fox, Spinifex, 404/36, Susan Varga
NELSON, Alice, The Children’s House, Vintage, 405/48, Sarah Holland-Batt
NELSON, Camilla and Rachel Robertson, Dangerous Idea About Mothers, UWA Publishing, 407/14, Felicity Plunkett
NIALL, Brenda, Josephine Dunin, and Frances O’Neill, Newman College: A history 1918–2018, Newman College, online only, Barney Zwartz
NIVEN, Bill, Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer’s hidden passion, Yale, 402/31, Peter Goldsworthy
O’DONNELL, Lawrence, Playing with Fire: The 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Penguin, 399/13, Barbara Keys
O’GRADY, Emily, The Yellow House, Allen & Unwin, 405/58, Jay Daniel Thompson
O’HANLON, Seamus, City Life: The new urban Australia, Seamus O’Hanlon, 405/38, Frank Bongiorno
O’NEILL, Ryan, The Drover’s Wives: 99 reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s Australian classic, Brio, 403/30, Jen Webb
OLSSON, Kristina, Shell, Scribner, 406/38, Susan Wyndham
ONDAATJE, Michael, Warlight, Jonathan Cape, 404/32, Beejay Silcox
ORR, Stephen, Incredible Floridas, Wakefield Press, 400/56, Gregory Day
PAGE, Geoff, Hard Horizons, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PAQUET, Philippe, translated by Julie Rose, Simon Leys: Navigator between worlds, La Trobe University Press, 400/22, Ian Donaldson
PARAMADITHA, Intan, translated by Stephen J. Epstein, Apple and Knife, Brow Books, 401/39, Lisa Bennett
PARKS, Tim, Out of My Head: On the trail of consciousness, Harvill Secker, 407/60, Nick Haslam
PARRISH, Tommi, The Lie and How We Told It, Fantagraphics, online only, Ronnie Scott
PATRIC, A.S., The Butcherbird Stories, Transit Lounge, 407/37, Susan Sheridan
PERCIVAL WOOD, Sally, Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia, Scribe, 398/53, Blanche Clark
PERRY, Gina, The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment, Scribe, 402/52, Nick Haslam
PERSIAN, Jayne, Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians, NewSouth, 398/46, Francesca Sasnaitis
PFEFFER, Anshel, Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Basic Books, 406/41, Louise Adler
PHILIPPS, Roland, A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald Maclean, Bodley Head, 405/10, Sheila Fitzpatrick
PICKRELL, John (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2018, NewSouth, 407/57, Paul Humphries
PIGGIN, Stuart, and Robert D. Linder, The Fountains of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian history 1740-1914, Monash University Publishing, 405/52, Paul Collins
PINCKNEY, Darryl (ed.), The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, NYRB, 400/34, Patrick McCaughey
PINKER, Steven, Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress, Allen Lane, 402/50, Benjamin Madden
PLANT, Margaret, Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century, Thames and Hudson, 402/16, Paul Giles
PLOWRIGHT, Adam, The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk, Icon Books, 399/8, Natalie J. Doyle
POIRIER, Agnes, Left Bank: Art, passion and the rebirth of Paris 1940-1950, Bloomsbury, 407/56, Gemma Betros
PRETTY, Ron, The Left Hand Mirror, Pitt Street Poetry, 402/57, Dennis Haskell
PRIOR, James, America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia-American alliance, 1940-1942, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 400/37, Remy Davison
RASMUSSEN, Carolyn, Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975-2015, Miegunyah, 407/61, Kate Murphy
RITTER, David, The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy, UWA Publishing, 405/18, Susan Reid
ROBINSON, Marilynne, What Are We Doing Here?: Essays, Virago, 401/10, Morag Fraser
ROWSE, Tim, Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901, UNSW Press, 399/18, Philip Jones
RUDD, Kevin, Not for the Faint-Hearted: A personal reflection on life, politics and purpose, Macmillan, 400/20, Neal Blewett
RYAN, Christian, Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar, riverrun, 398/56, Bernard Whimpress
RYAN, Jackie, We’ll Show the World: Expo 88, UQP, 404/47, Lyndon Megarrity
SALES, Leigh, Any Ordinary Day, Hamish Hamilton, 405/11, Gail Bell
SAMPSON, Fiona, In Search of Mary Shelley: The girl who wrote Frankenstein, Profile Books, 403/49, Geordie Williamson
SASAKI, Fred and Don Share, Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry magazine, University of Chicago Press, 401/42, David McCooey
SCOTT, Andrew C., Burning Planet: The story of fire through time, Andrew C. Scott, 407/58, Billy Griffiths
SCOTT, James C., Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states, Yale, 399/55, Kate Griffiths
SENECA, edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die: An ancient guide to the end of life, Princeton University Press, 404/39, Marguerite Johnson
SERONG, Jock, Preservation, Text Publishing, 407/39, James Bradley
SHERBORNE, Craig, Off the Record, Text Publishing, 399/37, Susan Lever
SHINE, Rick, Cane Toad Wars, University of California Press, 405/26, Libby Robbin
SHIPMAN, Tim, Fall Out: A year of political mayhem, William Collins, 401/22, Ross McKibbin
SHRIVER, Lionel, Property, The Borough Press, 401/35, Chris Flynn
SINGER, Peter (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on objectivity, OUP, 398/40, Janna Thompson
SKOVRON, Alex, The Man Who Took to his Bed, Puncher & Wattmann, 399/39, Jill Jones
SLATTERY, Luke, Mrs M: An imagined history, Fourth Estate, 399/36, Gillian Dooley
SLEZAK, Michael (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2017, NewSouth, 399/23, Rachel Mead
SMITH, Yvonne, David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings, Cambria Press, 398/16, David McCooey
SMITH, Zadie, Feel Free: Essays, Hamish Hamilton, 400/33, Sarah Holland-Batt
SOLNIT, Rebecca, The Mother of All Questions: Further feminisms, Granta Books, 400/36, Johanna Leggatt
SORENSEN, Tracy, The Lucky Galah, Picador, 401/39, Josephine Taylor
SORKIN, Michael, What Goes Up: The right and wrongs to the city, Verso, 403/65, Sara Savage
SPURLING, Hilary, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time, Hamish Hamilton, 398/35, Brian McFarlane
ST AUBYN, Edward, Dunbar, Hogarth Shakespeare, 398/26, Lisa Gorton
STEED, Laurie, You Belong Here, Margaret River Press, 401/39, Gretchen Shirm
STEINBERG, Peter K. and Karen V. Kukil (eds), The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956, Faber, 400/31, Felicity Plunkett
STEVENS, Norma and Steven M.L. Aronson, Avedon: Something personal, William Heinemann, 399/66, Kevin Rabelais
STRANGIO, Paul, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, The Pivot of Power: Australian prime ministers and political leadership 1949 –2016, Miegunyah, 398/12, Frank Bongiorno
SUMMERS, Anne, Unfettered and Alive: A memoir, Allen & Unwin, 407/12, Zora Simic
SUNY, Ronald Grigor, Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution, Verso, 400/28, Sheila Fitzpatrick
TAFT, Margaret and Andrew Markus, A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish in Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 406/45, Tali Lavi
TAUBMAN, William, Gorbachev: His life and times, Simon & Schuster, 400/25, Barbara Keys
TAYLOR, Daniel, The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war, La Trobe University Press, 406/22, Daniel Flitton
THOMAS, Richard F., Why Dylan Matters, William Collins, 401/58, James Ley
THOMSON, David, Warner Bros: The making of an American movie studio, Yale, 402/41, Jake Wilson
TINGLE, Laura, Follow the Leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71), Black Inc., 406/8, Paul Strangio
TOBIN, Vera, Elements of Surprise: Our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot, Harvard University Press, 403/63, Andrea Goldsmith
TOIBIN, Colm, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Picador, 406/28, Simon Caterson
TOMALIN, Claire, A Life of My Own, Viking, 398/18, Brenda Niall
TOMSIC, Mary, Beyond the Silver Screen: A history of women, film-making and film culture in Australia 1920-1990, Melbourne University Publishing, 402/44, Suzy Freeman-Greene
TOOZE, Adam, Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changes the world, Allen Lane, 407/27, Rémy Davison
TREMAIN, Rose, Rosie: Scenes from a vanished life, Chatto & Windus, 403/50, Brenda Niall
TREVOR, William, Last Stories, Viking, 402/22, Geordie Williamson
TRIGGS, Gillian, Speaking Up, Melbourne University Press, 406/19, Jane Cadzow
TSIOLKAS, Christos, On Patrick White: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 403/41, Barnaby Smith
TUFFIELD, Aviva (ed.), Best Summer Stories, Black Inc., 407/41, Anthony Lynch
TUNLEY, David, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji, Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce, Lyrebird Press, 401/59, Paul Watt
TWOMEY, Anne, The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems, Cambridge University Press, 404/40, Stephen Murray
TWOMEY, Christina, The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia, NewSouth, 403/58, Carolyn Holbrook
TWYFORD-MOORE, Sam, The Rapids: Ways of looking at mania, NewSouth, 403/52, Shannon Burns
UHLMANN, Anthony, Saint Antony in His Desert, UWA Publishing, 403/33, Suzie Gibson
VAN VELZEN, Marianne, Missing in Action: Australia’s World War I grave services, an astonishing story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing, Allen & Unwin, online only, Simon Caterson
VATIKIOTIS, Michael, Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 399/22, David Fettling
VEYNE, Paul, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Palmyra: An irreplaceable pleasure, University of Chicago Press, 399/58, Christopher Allen
VINCENT, Eve, Against Native Title: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 401/18, Richard Martin
WAKELING, Adam, Stern Justice: The forgotten story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes trials, Viking, 407/65, Michael Sexton
WALKER, Shaun, The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past, OUP, 400/61, Shaun Walker
WALSH, Adrian, The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath, Oxford University Press, 404/38, Adrian Walsh
WALSH, Stephen, Debussy: A painter in sound, Faber, 406/65, Paul Kildea
WATERS, Alice, Coming to my Senses: The making of a counterculture cook, Hardie Grant Books, 398/21, Mimi Biggadike
WESTAD, Odd Arne, The Cold War: A world history, Allen Lane, 398/10, Barbara Keys
WHEATLEY, Nadia, Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir, Text Publishing, 404/18, Kerryn Goldsworthy
WHISH-WILSON, David, The Coves, Fremantle Press, 405/59, Gillian Dooley
WHITE, Hugh, Without America: Australia in the new Asia (Quarterly Essay 68), Black Inc., 399/19, David Brophy
WILD, Kate, Waiting for Elijah, Scribe, 402/54, Johanna Leggatt
WILLESEE, Mike, Memoirs, Macmillan, 398/20, Richard Walsh
WILLIAMS, Robyn, Turmoil: Letters from the brink, NewSouth, 405/13, Danielle Clode
WILSON, Katherine, Tinkering: Australians reinvent DIY culture, Monash University Publishing, 398/66, Alex Tighe
WINTON, Tim, The Shepherd’s Hut, Hamish Hamilton, 399/34, Brenda Niall
WOLFF, Michael, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Hachette, 399/11, Gideon Haigh
WOOD, James, Upstate, Jonathan Cape, 406/37, Brenda Niall
WOODWARD, Bob, Fear: Trump in the White House, Simon & Schuster, 406/10, Varun Ghosh
WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, Beautiful Revolutionary, Scribe, 405/43, Anna MacDonald
WRIGHT, Alexis, Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth, Giramondo, 398/8, Michael Winkler
WRIGHT, Clare, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, Text Publishing, 406/16, Maggie MacKellar
WRIGHT, Fiona, Domestic Interior, Giramondo, 401/40, Joan Fleming
WRIGHT, Fiona, The World was Whole, Giramondo, 405/14, Francesca Sasnaitis
ZIELONKA, Wellings, Counter-revolution: Liberal Europe in retreat, Oxford University Press, 405/15, Ben Wellings
ZIZEK, Slavoj, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza, Reading Marx, Polity Press, 404/42, Ali Alizadeh
ZUSAK, Markus, Bridge of Clay, Picador, 405/42, Nicole Abadee
2018 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here
Arts commentary
GRANT, Sally, ‘The Brodie Set: Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, 402/38
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, ‘On Black Panther’, 402/43
McNAMARA, James, ‘The Drama of it: Television Comedy’s New Aesthetic’, 402/34
TREAGER, Peter, ‘Strange Times for Artistic Practice’, 404/50
Dance
CASEY, Maryrose, Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre), 405/66
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Giselle (Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, La Bayadère (Queensland Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Le Dernier Appel (Marrugeku Dance Theatre), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Milky Way – Ballet at the Quarry (West Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Murphy (The Australian Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Spartacus (The Australian Ballet), 406/67
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, The Piano: The Ballet (Royal New Zealand Ballet), online only
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, Xenos (Adelaide Festival), online only
Film
ALTMAN, Dennis, Boy Erased (Universal Pictures), 407/70
COWLEY, Des, Cold War (Palace Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BlacKkKlansman (Universal Pictures), 404/51
CRAWFORD, Anwen, BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Madman Entertainment), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Disobedience (Roadshow Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lady Bird (Universal Pictures and A24), 399/63
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Lean on Pete (Transmission Films), online only
CRAWFORD, Anwen, Loveless (Palace Films), 402/61
CRAWFORD, Anwen, The Death of Stalin (Madman Entertainment), 401/60
CRAWFORD, Anwen, You Were Never Really Here (Umbrella Entertainment), 405/65
GRANT, Sally, McQueen (Bleecker Street), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, The Disaster Artist, (Roadshow Films), 398/64
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, Brothers’ Nest (Label Distribution), online only
HARRIS, Lauren Carroll, The Second, online only
KAGAN, Dion, Happy Hour (Transmission Films), online only
LAVI, Tali, Foxtrot (Sharmill Films), 403/72
McFARLANE, Brian, Breath (Roadshow Films), 402/60
McFARLANE, Brian, Darkest Hour (Universal Pictures), online only
McFARLANE, Brian, Peterloo (British Film Festival), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Suspiria (Transmission Films), online only
SASNAITIS, Francesca, The Insult (Palace Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Transmission Films), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Gaugin: Voyage de Tahiti (Studio Canal), online only
SMITH, Barnaby, Human Flow (Roadshow Entertainment), 400/68
SMITH, Barnaby, Mary Shelley, online only
SMITH, Barnaby, The Wife (Icon Film Distribution), 404/59
SMITH, Barnaby, Wildlife (Roadshow Films), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), online only
WINDSOR, Harry, A Fantastic Woman (Sony Pictures), 400/69
WINDSOR, Harry, Sweet Country (Transmission Films), 399/62
WINDSOR, Harry, The Post (Entertainment One), online only
Music
APPLEBY, Rosalind, Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo (Perth Festival), online only
COWLES, Des, 2018 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, online only
COWLEY, Des, Kites of Tianjin (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, The Calling (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
COWLEY, Des, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, online only
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, online only
FRASER, Morag, L’Enfance du Christ (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
FRASER, Morag, The Dream of Gerontius (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Die Walküre, Act One (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), online only
ROSE, Peter, Tristan und Isolde (West Australian Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Anne-Sophie Mutter in concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, 'Beethoven’s Nine, Ode to Joy' (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Brahms Revelation (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Daniel Barenboim conducting Staatskapelle Berlin (Sydney Opera House), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, David Robertson and Emanuel Ax’s Mozart concert series (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Dramatic Mozart, Seductive Mozart, and Magnificent Mozart (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 399/70
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler Six (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), 404/62
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), online only
Opera
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth Festival), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Athalia (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Don Quichotte (Opera Australia), 401/61
HALLIWELL, Michael, La Traviata (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Metamorphosis (Opera Australia), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Parsifal and The Flying Dutchman (Bavarian State Opera), online only
KERTESZ, Elizabeth, Otello (Melbourne Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Cendrillon and Lucia di Lammermoor and Tosca (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Così fan tutte (Metropolitan Opera), online only
ROSE, Peter, Lucia di Lammermoor and Aida (Opera Australia), online only
SHMITH, Michael, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Opera Australia), 407/73
SHMITH, Michael, Stuart Skelton (Melbourne Recital Centre), online only
SHMITH, Michael, William Tell (Victorian Opera), 403/74
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Riccardo Muti conducts the Australian World Orchestra, online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, The Nose (Opera Australia), online only
TREGEAR, Peter, Evita (Opera Australia), 405/71
WILLS, Gillian, Peter Grimes (Brisbane Festival), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Der Rosenkavalier (Melbourne Opera), online only
ZWARTZ, Barney, Tristan and Isolde (Melbourne Opera), online only
Theatre
BETROS, Gemma, Au revoir la-haut (See You Up There), 401/56
BOON, Maxim, Bottomless (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BROOKER, Ben, A Doll's House, Part 2 (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, After Dinner (State Theatre Company of South Australia), 401/63
BROOKER, Ben, Assassins (Black Swan State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Brothers Wreck (written and directed by Jada Alberts), 403/73
BROOKER, Ben, Creditors (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Gloria (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Kings of War (Adelaide Festival), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Sense and Sensibility (State Theatre Company of South Australia), online only
BROOKER, Ben, That Eye, The Sky (State Theatre Company), online only
BROOKER, Ben, Thyestes (The Hayloft Project), 400/73
BYRNE, Tim, Scaramouche Jones (Wander Productions), 404/56
BYRNE, Tim, Strangers in Between (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
BYRNE, Tim, Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company), 407/71
BYRNE, Tim, Watt (performed at the Playhouse, Arts Centre), 406/56
CARMODY, John, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Richard Wagner Festival Theatre), 404/55
CRAVEN, Peter, Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare Company), 404/58
DAVIDSON, Jim, Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask, 403/75
DICKSON, Ian, A Cheery Soul (written by Patrick White and directed by Kip Williams), 406/68
DICKSON, Ian, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, An Enemy of the People (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Degenerate Art (Red Line Productions), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story (Sydney Theatre Company), 402/63
DICKSON, Ian, The Children (Sydney Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company), 401/57
DICKSON, Ian, The Dance of Death (Belvoir St Theatre), online only
DICKSON, Ian, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
DICKSON, Ian, Top Girls (Sydney Theatre Company), 399/71
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Waiting for Godot (Wits’End), 398/60
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Wild (Melbourne Theatre Company), online only
GRUBER, Fiona, Bliss (Malthouse Theatre), 402/65
GRUBER, Fiona, Fury (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
GUNAWARDANA, Dilan, On Body and Soul (Daricheh Cinema), online only
HAINING, Maggie, Hedda (Bille Brown Theatre), 407/69
HAINING, Maggie, Nearer the Gods (Queensland Theatre Company), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Dry River Run (Queensland Conservatorium), online only
HALLIWELL, Michael, Hamlet (Adelaide Festival), 400/72
HARTNELL, Laura, The Harp in the South (Sydney Theatre Company), 405/62
LAVI, Tali, Hir (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), 399/67
LAVI, Tali, The Antipodes (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Antony and Cleopatra (Bell Shakespeare), 400/75
LEVER, Susan, I'm Not Running (National Theatre), online only
LEVER, Susan, Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures), 398/63
LEY, James, Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs), online only
MORLEY, Michael, Memorial and human requiem (Adelaide Festival), online only
RICKARD, John, The Dressmaker: A Musical Adaptation (Monash University), online only
ROSE, Peter, Three Tall Women (John Golden Theatre, New York), 402/63
SIMMONDS, Fiona, Saint Joan (Sydney Theatre Company), online only
SPITZKOWSKY, Fiona, Prize Fighter (La Boite Theatre Company), online only
SZABÓ, Zoltan, Scenes from a Marriage (Sydney Opera House), online only
WILSON, Jake, The Bookshop (Transmission Films), 402/66
YEOMAN, Will, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Black Swan State Theatre Company), 402/67
Visual Arts
CLARK, Jane, Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
ENNIS, Helen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 398/61
FRASER, Morag, Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 406/58
FRASER, Morag, The Lady and the Unicorn (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 400/71
GLISIC, Iva, A Window on Italy – The Corsini Collection: Masterpieces from Florence (Art Gallery of Western Australia), online only
GRANT, Sally, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), online only
GRANT, Sally, Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC), 405/64
GRUBER, Fiona, Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester, Through Love (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
GUNN, Grazia, The Field Revisited and Robert Hunter (NGV Australia), online only
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, John Russell: Australia’s French Impressionist (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 404/54
HAMMERSCHLAG, Keren Rosa, Love and Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate (National Gallery of Australia), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco, Louise Paramor: Palace of the Republic, Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley, and Gareth Sansom: Transformer (all at National Gallery Victoria), 398/62
KNEZIC, Sophie, Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds (National Gallery of Victoria), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, Hilarie Mais (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form (TarraWarra Museum of Art), online only
KNEZIC, Sophie, The Hilarie Mais exhibition (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 400/74
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again (Whitney Museum of American Art), online only
NETTE, Andrew, Wonderland (ACMI), online only
OCHOA, Gabriel Garcia, Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), online only
STIEVEN-TAYLOR, Alison, David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art), online only
Commentary
CHAPLIN, Felicity, ‘Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions Surround the #MeToo Movement’, 402/28
DAMOUSI, Joy, ‘Protecting the National Interest: A Covert Attack on Independent Scholarly Research’, 407/19
DAVIS, Glyn, ‘The PM Years by Kevin Rudd’, online only
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘Odysseus and Me’, 400/58
MACDONALD, Ranald, ‘The Voice of Australia: Defending the Principle of an Independent and Well-Funded ABC’, 403/9
RICKARDS, Lauren, ‘Aluminium Dreams’, 405/29
Fellowships
COLLINS, Paul, ‘God and Caesar in Australia: The close nexus between government and Catholicism’, ABR RAFT Fellowship essay 399/40
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘Defying the moment’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 399/14
SILCOX, Beejay, ‘The Art of Pain: Writing in the Age of Trauma’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 406/29
SILCOX, Beejay,‘We Are All MFAs Now: The Rise and Rise of American Creative Writing Degrees’, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship essay, 403/17
Fiction
FINN, S.J., ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, online only
RICHARDS, Allee, ‘What This Is’, online only
RIWOE, Mirandi, ‘Hardflip’, online only
TASKER, Michael Caleb, ‘Clear Midnight’, online only
WILSON, Chloe, ‘Break Character’, online only
Tribute
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, ‘An Imagination on High Alert: Dorothy Porter (1954–2008)’, 407/50
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
GRAINGER-BROWN, Lucas, ‘We Three Hundred’, 400/45
TRANTER, Kirsten, ‘Once Again: Outside in the House of Art’, 401/29
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
CHONG, Eileen, ‘Compass’, 399/31
HEALY, Katherine, ‘Decoding Paul Klee’s Mit Grunen Strumpfen (With Green Stockings) 1939’, 399/33
HOLT, L.K., ‘The Abstract Blue Background’, 399/32
SLAUGHTER, Tracey, ‘breather’, 399/33
WONG, Nicholas, ‘101, Taipei’, 399/30
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
AMAN, Claire, ‘Vasco’, 403/24
APHRODITE, Sharmini, ‘Between the Mountain and the Sea’, 403/35
LUCAS, Madelaine, ‘Ruins’, 403/44
Interviews
Publisher of the Month
CALLIL, Carmen, 403/70
FEIK, Chris, 405/60
HOLLIER, Nathan, 400/66
MORRISON, Rod, 399/72
Open Page
ETTLER, Justine, 401/64
HAIGH, Gideon, 406/54
KRISTINA OLSSON, 405/56
MASTERS, Chris, 398/68
O’NEILL, Ryan, 404/48
SENTILLES, Sarah, 400/76
SUMMERS, Anne, 407/66
TREMAIN, Rose, 403/76
Poet of the Month
BROPHY, Kevin, 407/54
BROWN, Pam, 401/54
MEAD, Philip, 402/58
WEARNE, Alan, online only
Critic of the Month
NIALL, Brenda, 402/68
Poetry
Poems
ALBISTON, Jordie, ‘break’, 403/56
ALLISON, Davina, ‘Wittgenstein, 1951, Peppered Moth’, 405/16
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Boathouse’, 400/64
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Recital’, 406/50
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby, ‘The Cave of Bliss’, 404/15
ELVEY, Anne, ‘Natality’, 401/19
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Syllabic Patterning’, 403/29
GORTON, Lisa, ‘Landscape with Magic Lantern Slides’, 405/41
HIRSHFIELD, Jane, ‘Interruption: An Assay’, 402/17
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Cyndi Lauper’, 407/53
HOSE, Duncan, ‘Dalgety Dalgety’, 404/21
KINSELLA, John, ‘Inverting Holderlin’s “Geh unter, schone Sonne”’, 400/29
KLEINZAHLER, August, ‘“Coming On The Hudson”: Weehawken’, 406/42
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘The Measurement Institute’, 407/40
MANNING, Julie, ‘Four Rooms’, 401/41
PATTERSON, Ian, ‘The Field’, 401/53
PORTER, Dorothy, ‘Faith’, 407/51
RYAN, Gig, ‘Spring Idylls’, 400/41
SCOTT, John A., Herr Doktor Tulp’s Interrogation (1942), 398/45
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.
BURTON, Pascalle, ‘stones sequence sucked’, 398/49
FERNEY, Liam, ‘Main Street Social’, 398/48
FROST, Zenobia, ‘before / now’, 398/49
JACOBSON, Anna, ‘Discovery’, 398/49
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘Poetry in Queensland’, 398/47
STAVANGER, David, ‘Stock Market’, 398/48
WATSON, Samuel Wagan, ‘When we dreamt like Kerouac, 398/48
Surveys
Arts Highlights of the Year
ALLISON, John, 406/59
BOWER, Humphrey, 406/59
BROOKER, Ben, 406/59
BYRNE, Tim, 406/59
CHRISTOFIS, Lee, 406/59
COSLOVICH, Gabriella, 406/59
CRAVEN, Peter, 406/59
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 406/59
DICKSON, Ian, 406/59
GRUBER, Fiona, 406/59
HALLIWELL, Michael, 406/59
KILDEA, Paul, 406/59
KNEZIC, Sophie, 406/59
LAVI, Tali, 406/59
LEVER, Susan, 406/59
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 406/59
McFARLANE, Brian, 406/59
MORLEY, Michael, 406/59
RADFORD, Ron, 406/59
ROSE, Peter, 406/59
SCHOFIELD, Lee, 406/59
SHMITH, Michael, 406/59
SIMMONDS, Diana, 406/59
SZABO, Zoltan, 406/59
TREGEAR, Peter, 406/59
WILLIAMS, Kim, 406/59
WILLS, Gillian, 406/59
YEOMAN, Will, 406/59
ZWARTZ, Barney, 406/59
Books of the Year
ALTMAN, Dennis, 407/29
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 407/29
BISHOP, Judith, 407/29
BONGIORNO, Frank, 407/29
CORBOULD, Clare, 407/29
DAVIS, Glyn, 407/29
DAY, Gregory, 407/29
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 407/29
EDELE, Mark, 407/29
EDWARDS, Astrid, 407/29
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 407/29
FRASER, Morag, 407/29
FREEMAN-GREENE, Suzy, 407/29
GILES, Paul, 407/29
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 407/29
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 407/29
GORTON, Lisa, 407/29
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/29
HAIGH, Gideon, 407/29
HAWKE, John, 407/29
KINSELLA, John, 407/29
LAKE, Marilyn, 407/29
LEY, James, 407/29
LYNCH, Anthony, 407/29
McCOOEY, David, 407/29
NIALL, Brenda, 407/29
PAGE, Geoff, 407/29
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 407/29
SHERIDAN, Susan, 407/29
SILCOX, Beejay, 407/29
WALKER, Brenda, 407/29
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 407/29
WRIGHT, Fiona, 407/29
WYNDHAM, Susan, 407/29
Publisher Picks
BIN SALLEH, Rachel, 398/31
CHRISTER, Nikki, 398/31
CURNOW, Meredith, 398/31
DUFFY, Madonna, 398/31
HEYWARD, Michael, 398/31
IMLAH, Matilda, 398/31
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 398/31
MORRISON, Rod, 398/31
RICHTER, Georgia, 398/31
SCOTT, Barry, 398/31
Favourite Films
ADDISON, Alice, 402/47
CHAPLIN, Felicity, 402/47
CRAWFORD, Anwen, 402/47
DEACON, Desley, 402/47
DU FRESNE, Kylie, 402/47
HARRISS, Lauren Carroll, 402/47
HAWKER, Philippa, 402/47
JONES, Gail, 402/47
KAGAN, Dion, 402/47
McFARLANE, Brian, 402/47
McNAMARA, James, 402/47
PEARCE, Craig, 402/47
PRESCOTT, Nick, 402/47
ROMEI, Stephen, 402/47
ROSE, Peter, 402/47
SHERMAN, Emile, 402/47
WILSON, Jake, 402/47
ARC Grant Controversy
BRETT, Andre, 407/20
DONALDSON, Ian, 407/20
EDELE, Mark, 407/20
FEATHERSTONE, Lisa, 407/20
FULLAGAR, Kate, 407/20
GARDNER, Margaret, 407/20
GARTON, Stephen, 407/20
GRIFFITHS, Tom, 407/20
HARRIS, Margaret, 407/20
KEVIN, Catherine, 407/20
MEAD, Philip, 407/20
PHIDDIAN, Robert, 407/20
SCHMIDT, Brian, 407/20