Non Fiction
Don Dunstan, Intimacy & Liberty: A political biography by Dino Hodge
by Lyndon Megarrity •
In My Mother's Hands: A disturbing memoir of family life by Biff Ward
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
There was a recent flurry of Australian media interest in the wake of the publication of a new edition of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, edited by Tony Thorne. Thorne only added a small number of new Australian slang termsto the new edition: ‘ort’, buttocks; ‘tockley’, penis; and ‘unit’, defined as a bogan. The apparent lack of new Australian slang terms was a cause of some anxiety: did it indicate we were losing our famed linguistic inventiveness? Was it a sign of our maturing as a nation? Or did it mean that Americanisms had finally taken over our language?
... (read more)Behind the Doors: An art history from Yuendumu by Philip Jones with Warlukurlangu Artists
by Colin Golvan •
Kicking the Kremlin by Marc Bennetts & Putin and the Oligarch by Richard Sakwa
by Nick Hordern •
Antipodean America: Australasia and the constitution of U.S. Literature by Paul Giles
by Philip Mead •
Cordite Poetry Review: Issue 46.0 edited by Kent MacCarter
by Peter Kenneally •
Transnational Literature: Vol. 6, No. 2 by Gillian Dooley
by Jay Daniel Thompson •