January-February 2024, no. 461
ABR’s annual double issue is packed with summer-reading features. To complement our Books of the Year feature (December issue), Australia’s top arts critics nominate 2023’s outstanding productions. Kevin Foster doesn’t pull his punches on David McBride’s whistleblower memoir, Emma Dortins reviews Kate Fullagar’s innovative biography of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip, and Frank Bongiorno considers Raimond Gaita’s tangle with life’s big questions. Gordon Pentland takes on Theresa May and Stuart Kells eyes Qantas. Ebony Nilsson unearths ASIO files to reveal ordinary lives and Peter Edwards considers political interference in official military histories. We review new fiction from Lucy Treloar, Max Easton, and Sigrid Nunez. As always, the summer issue features the five poems shortlisted in this year’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize.
Full Contents
The Nature of Honour: Son, duty-bound soldier, military lawyer, truth-teller, father by David McBride
Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings by Raimond Gaita
Life As We Knew It: The extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic by Aisha Dow and Melissa Cunningham
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The trials and transformation of an Australian icon by Peter Harbison with Derek Sadubin
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 edited by Donna Lu
Shakespeare: The man who pays the rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O’Hea
Paul and Paula: A history of separation, survival and belonging by Tim McNamara
Burn by Melanie Saward & We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough
parallel equators by Nathan Shepherdson & camping underground by Greg McLaren
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the luminous ocean depths by Brad Fox
Empress of the Nile: The daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction by Lynne Olson
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