ABR Index 2023
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2023
2023 Australian Book Review Index
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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