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Advances

The Update - May 22, 2018

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22 May 2018

In this fortnight's Update: MPavilion at Monash, La Mama fire, Jessica Pratt makes her OA début, Bill Henson at Tolarno Galleries, Anne-Sophie von Mutter returns to Sydney, Bradman on tour, Anna Carey at LACMA, Hayes Theatre Co Artist Led Initiative, Ronan Farrow at MWF, John Simkin Medal, The Memory Tearoom ...

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News from the Editors Desk

The Calibre Essay Prize, Peter Temple (1946-2018), Porter Prize, 2018 Film survey

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A cynic once remarked that an editor needs two things: good grammar and a long memory. But we all know there’s a bit more to it than that. As we prepare to send the April issue to press – the four hundredth in the magazine’s second series – it occurs to me that an editor’s main function is to be a recogniser of expertise ...

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News from the Editors Desk

With this double issue, Australian Book Review enters its fortieth year. ABR was of course founded in Adelaide in 1961 as a monthly magazine. Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton edited the first series, whose final, quarterly appearances lapsed in 1974. The second series was created in 1978 under the auspices of ...

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Rainbows and bad losers

The mood outside the State Library of Victoria on 15 November 2017 was exultant – once the precarious line from Canberra had been restored and the ABS’s expatiatory chief statistician, David Kalisch, finally announced that ...

Arts Issue, Peter Corrigan, John Hawke, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship, Buenos Aires, Kazuo Ishiguro, and a free ABR Gift Subscription.

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Yes we can!

ABR Rainbow rectangle 400Confirmation of the legality of the marriage equality postal survey by the High Court ...

The Update - September 12, 2017

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12 September 2017

In this fortnight's Update: The Coming Back Out Ball, An Octoroon giveaway, Sweet Country, Archibald returns to Geelong, Maria Callas Live, Crush Festival, You Know We Belong Together, the Abbotsford Convent, Australian Dance Awards, Oddlands, The Nettelbecks at fortyfivedownstairs, and giveaway tickets to Mountain (Madman Films).

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