ABR Index 2020
NB: this index includes material published in the print magazine and online in 2020.
2020 Australian Book Review Index
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ABJORENSEN, Norman, The Manner of Their Going: Prime ministerial exits in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/22, Lyndon Megarrity
ABRIEL, Anita, The Light After the War, Simon & Schuster, 419/29, Susan Midalia
ACKERMAN, Jennifer, The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think, Scribe, 423/67, Simon Caterson
ADAMSON, Robert, Reaching Light: Selected Poems, Flood Editions, 427/44, James Jiang
ADIGA, Aravind, Amnesty, Picador, 420/30, Alison Broinowski
AHMAD, Michael Mohammed, After Australia, Affirm Press, 424/25, Declan Fry
ALBISTON, Jordie, Element: The atomic weight & radius of love, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/53, Luke Beesley
ALLEN, Liz, The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover, NewSouth, 421/55, Peter Mares
ALLEN, Woody, Apropos of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, 422/47, Peter Craven
ALLINGTON, Patrick, Rise & Shine, Scribe, 422/28, Naama Grey-Smith
ALTMAN, Dennis, Unrequited Love: Diary of an accidental activist, Monash University Publishing, 418/60, Sebastian Sharp
AMIS, Martin, Inside Story, Jonathan Cape, 426/32, Declan Fry
APPLEBAUM, Anne, Twilight of Democracy: The failure of politics and the parting of friends, Allen Lane, 42/12, Luke Stegemann
ARNOTT, Robbie, The Rain Heron, Text, 422/31, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
ASHMERE, Emma, Dreams They Forgot, Wakefield Press, 426/35, Rose Lucas
ATHERON, Cassandra and Paul Hetherington (eds), The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, 427/45, Des Cowley
BAIR, Deirdre, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and me, Atlantic Books, 422/24, Ronan McDonald
BANERJEE, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better answers to our biggest problems, Allen Lane, 423/56, David Throsby
BARRISTER, The Secret, Fake Law: The truth about justice in an age of lies, Picador, 427/53, Kiernan Pender
BAYLISS, Andrew J., The Spartans, Oxford University Press, 424/58, Alastair Blanshard
BEAUMONT, Mandy, Wild Fearless Chests, Hachette, 420/32, Susan Midalia
BECK, Henning, Scatterbrain: How the mind’s mistakes make humans creative, innovative and successful, NewSouth, 419/49, Nick Haslam
BELL, Davina, The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love, Text, 425/32, Thuy On
BENNETT DAYLIGHT, Tegan, The Details: One love, death and reading, Simon & Schuster, 424/67, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
BENNETT, Michael, Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW, NewSouth, 421/45, Michael Winkler
BEST, Luke, Cadaver Dog, University of Queensland Press, 427/46, Anders Villani
BLACKFORD, Jenny, The Alpaca Cantos, Pitt Street Poetry, 426/55, James Antoniou
BLAND, Ben, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia, Penguin, 426/19, Ken Ward
BLAY, John, Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s south east forests, NewSouth, 426/21, Saskia Beudel
BOLTON, John, A White House memoir, Simon & Schuster, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
BOND, Catherine, Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War, NewSouth, 422/15, Kieran Pender
BOYD, William, Trio, Viking, 425/28, Michael Shmith
BOYLE, Peter, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness, Vagabond Press, 420/39, David McCooey
BRADLEY, James. Ghost Species, Hamish Hamilton, 421/35, J.R. Burgmann
BRETT, Judith, The Coal Curse: Resources, climate and Australia’s future (Quarterly Essay 78), Blank Inc., 424/27, Cameron Muir
BRIERLEY, Sue, Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as Lion, Viking, 426/53, Margaret Robson Kett
BRINSDEN, Anne, Wearing Paper Dresses, Macmillan, 419/29, Susan Midalia
BROINOWSKI, Richard, Under the Rainbow: The life and times of E.W. Cole, Miegunyah Press, 425/42, Jim Davidson
BROOKS, David, The Grass Library, Brandl & Schlesinger, 420/48, Ben Brooker
BROWN, Craig, One Two Three Four: The Beatles in time, Fourth Estate, 423/63, Andrew Ford
BROWNE, Peter and Seumas Spark (eds), ‘I Wonder’: The life and work of Ken Inglis, Monash University Publishing, 421/31, Nicholas Brown
BRYANT, Katerina, Hysteria, NewSouth, 421/42, Rachel Robertson
BUCCOLA, Nicholas, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America, Princeton University Press, 420/20, Samuel Watts
BUIST, Anne, The Long Shadow, Text, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
BUNGEY, Darleen, Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia, Allen & Unwin, 422/48, Tali Lavi
BYRNE, Liam, Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: The making of the modern Labor Party, Melbourne University Press, 422/11, Frank Bongiorno
CALLIL, Carmen, Oh Happy Day: Those times and these times, Jonathan Cape, 426/18, Brenda Niall
CAREY, John (ed.), A Little History of Poetry, Yale, 422/56, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
CARLISLE, Claire (ed.), translated by George Eliot, Spinoza’s Ethics, Princeton University Press, 424/47, Moira Gatens
CARMENT, Tim, Womerah Lane: Lives and landscapes, Giramondo, 418/14, Susan Wyndham
CARTER, Zachary D., The Price of Peace: Money, democracy and the life of John Maynard Keynes, Random House, 426/48, John Tang
CHAMEDES, Giuliana, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Europe, Harvard, 419/16, Paul Collins
CHO, Catherine, Inferno: A memoir, Bloomsbury, 423/65, Caitlin McGregor
CLANCHY, John, In Whom We Trust, Finlay Lloyd, 418/42, Susan Lever
CLARKE, Susanna, Piranesi, Bloomsbury, 425/31, Kirsten Tranter
CLODE, Danielle, In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World, Picador, 427/16, Gemma Betros
COAFFEE, Jon, Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world, Yale, 418/18, Tom Bamforth
COLEMAN, Aidan, Mount Sumptuous, Wakefield Press, 423/61, James Jiang
COLEY, Sam, State Highway One, Hachette, 422/35, Chloë Cooper
CONTE, Steven, The Tolstoy Estate, Fourth Estate, 425/26, James Antoniou
COOK, Nick, Fighting for Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS, NewSouth, 412/32, Garry Wotherspoon
COOKE, Richard, On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers, Black Inc., 422/18, Sophie Cunningham
CORRIS, Peter, selected by Jean Bedford, See You at the Toxteth: The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on crime, Allen & Unwin, 418/41, Chris Flynn
COUPE, Stuart, Paul Kelly: The man, the music and the life in-between, Hachette Australia, 424/20, Kerryn Goldsworthy
CRAWFORD, Richard, Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in music, W.W. Norton & Company, 423/62, Paul Kildea
CROGGON, Alison, The Threads of Magic, Walker Books, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
CRONIN, MTC, God is Waiting in the World’s Yard, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/53, Luke Beesley
DALTON, Trent, All Out Shimmering Skies, Fourth Estate, 426/37, Susan Wyndham
DALZIELL, Tanya, Gail Jones: Word, image, ethics, Sydney University Press, 424/44, Sue Kossew
DAPIRAN, Antony, City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 423/64, Will Higginbotham
DARBY, Andrew, Flight Lines: Across the globe on a journey with the astonishing ultramarathon birds, Allen & Unwin, 419/48, Andrew Fuhrmann
DAVIS, Lydia, Essays One, Hamish Hamilton, 420/23, Shannon Burns
DAWSON, Emma and Janet McCalman (eds), What Happens Next? Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19, MUP, 427/8, Morag Fraser
de ASSIS, Machado (translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux), The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Penguin Classics, 425/30, Andrew McLeod
de SAINT PHALLE, Catherine, The Sea and Us, Transit Lounge, 418/39, Susan Midalia
de WIND, Eddy (translated by David Colmer), Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp, Doubleday, 420/45, Elisabeth Holdsworthy
DEACON, Desley, Judith Anderson: Australian star, first lady of the American stage, Kerr Publishing, 419/51, John Rickard
DeLillo, Don, The Silence: A novel, Picador, 427/38, Don Anderson
DESSAIX, Robert, The Time of Our Lives: Growing older well, Brio Books, 425/37, Francesca Sasnaitis
DIBBLE, Jeremy (ed.) and Julian Horton (ed.), British Music Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950, Boydell Press, 420/51, Peter Tregear
DISHER, Garry, Peace, Text, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle Clode, The First Wave: Exploring early coastal contact history in Australia, Wakefield Press, 418/11, Alexandra Roginski
DRIVER, Dorothy, A Book of Friends: In honour of J.M. Coetzee on his 80th birthday, Text, 423/15, Paul Giles
DRY, Sarah, Waters of the World: The story of the scientist who unravelled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole, Scribe, 420/37, Michael Adams
DUFTY, David, Radio Girl: The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend, Allen & Unwin, 422/45, Jacqueline Kent
DUGGAN, Laurie, Homer Street, Giramondo, 424/53, Tim Wright
EBNER, Julia, Going Dark: The secret social lives of extremists, Bloomsbury, 420/17, Andrew Broertjes
EISEN, Cliff and Dominic McHugh (eds), The Letters of Cole Porter, Yale, 420/18, Paul Kildea
ELLIOTT, Helen (ed.), Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century grandmothers, Text, 422/50, Kerryn Goldsworthy
ELVERY, Laura, Ordinary Matter, University of Queensland Press, 424/35, Susan Midalia
ENNIS, Helen, Olive Cotton: A life in photography, Fourth Estate, 418/23, Alison Stieven-Taylor
ENRIGHT, ANNE, Actress, Jonathan Cape, 419/21, Alice Nelson
ERDRICH, Louise, The Nightwatchman, Corsair, 419/20, Beejay Silcox
EVANS, Alison, Euphoria Kids, Echo, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
FAHEY, John, Traitors and Spies: Espionage and corruption in high places in Australia, 1901–1905, Allen & Unwin, 425/13, Sheila Fitzpatrick
FARRELL, Michael, Family Trees, Giramondo, 422/53, Luke Beesley
FEAVER, William, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968–2011, Bloomsbury, 427/61, Ian Dickson
FENNELL, Jonathan, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 421/48, David Horner
FERRANTE, Elena, The Lying Life of Adults, Allen & Unwin, 426/30, Beejay Silcox
FIDJESTØL, Alfred, Almost Human: A biography of Julius the chimpanzee, Hachette, 418/23, Nicholas Bugeja
FIDLER, Richard, The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague, ABC Books, 425/59, Christopher Menz
FIELD, Caroline, Australian Galleries: The Purves family business: The first four decades 1956–1999, Australian Galleries, 420/53, Sheridan Palmer
FIELD, Vern, Island 159, Island Magazine, 423/68, Rayne Allinson
FIGES, Orlando, The Europeans: Three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture, Allen Lane, 418/30, Michael Shmith
FINLAYSON, Julie D. and Frances Morphy (eds), Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical ad anthropological essays in honour of Peter Sutton, Wakefield Press, 427/56, Stephen Bennetts
FIRKIN, Katherine, Sticks and Stones, Bantam, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
FLANAGAN, Richard, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Knopf, 426/28, James Ley
FLANDERS, Judith, A Place for Everything: The curious history of alphabetical order, Picador, 424/60, Andrew Connor
FLANNERY, Tim, Life: Selected writings, Text, 418/15, Libby Robin
FLYNN, Chris, Mammoth, University of Queensland Press, 421/36, Astrid Edwards
FORD, Andrew and Anni Heino, The Song Remains the Same: 800 years of love songs, laments and lullabies, La Trobe University Press, 419/65, David McCooey
FORD, Richard, Sorry for Your Trouble, Bloomsbury, 423/32, Don Anderson
FRAME, Tom (ed.), Trials and Transformations, 2001–2004: The Howard government, Volume III, UNSW Press, 422/43, Lyndon Megarrity
FRASER, Nick, Say What Happened: A story of documentaries, Faber, 419/52, Belinda Smaill
FUREDI, Frank, How Fear Works: Culture of fear in the twenty-first century, Bloomsbury, 420/47, Adrian Walsh
FURTADO, Peter, Great Cities Through Travellers’ Eyes, Thames & Hudson, 420/25, Nicole Abadee
GARDINI, Nicola, Long Live Latin: The pleasures of a useless language, Profile, 421/51, Alastair Blanshard
GARDNER, Angela, Some Sketchy Notes on Matter, Recent Work Press, 427/46, Anders Villani
GARNER, Helen, One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995, Text, 427/11, Nicholas Jose
GAWENDA, Michael, The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish life, Monash University Publishing, 426/47, David Trigger
GELDER, Ken and Rachael Weaver, The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt, Miegunyah, 423/53, Danielle Close
GEVISSER, Mark, The Pink Line: The world’s queer frontiers, Profile Books, 424/10, Dennis Altman
GILLARD, Julia and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons, Vintage, 424/8, Megan Clement
GILLETT, Ross, The Mirror Hurlers, Puncher & Wattmann, 422/54, Geoff Page
GOAD, Philip et al., Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming education through art, design and architecture, Miegunyah, 420/52, Christopher Menz
GOLDIN, Megan, The Night Swim, Michael Joseph, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, Melting Moments, Black Inc., 419/29, Susan Midalia
GOODFELLOW, Geoff, Out of Copley Street: A working-class boyhood, Wakefield Press, 427/18, Jay Daniel Thompson
GOPNIK, Blake, Warhol: A life as art, Allen Lane, 423/18, Paul McDermott
GORMAN, Clem and Therese Gorman, Intrépide: Australian women artists in early twentieth-century France, Monash University Press, 422/65, Jane Sullivan
GORNICK, Vivian, The Romance of American Communism, Verso, 427/67, Naish Gawen
GORRA, Michael, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, Liveright, 427/29, Paul Giles
GREEN, Jonathan, Meanjin Quarterly: Volume 79, Issue 2, Melbourne University Press, 423/68, Elizabeth Bryer
GREEN, Jonathon, Sounds and Furies: The love–hate relationship between women and slang, Robinson, 420/26, Amanda Laugesen
GREEN, Karen, Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Enlightenment, Routledge, 425/63, Janna Thompson
GREENSLADE, Francis, How I Learnt to Act: On the way to not going to drama school, Currency Press, 419/66, Tim Byrne
GRENVILLE, Kate, A Room Made of Leaves, Text, 424/30, Don Anderson
GUENIFFEY, Patrice (translated by Steven Rendall), Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and history, Harvard University Press, 427/55, Peter McPhee
GUILLAUME, Jenna, You Were Made for Me, Pan Macmillan, 425/32, Thuy On
HAMILTON, Clive and Mareike Ohlberg, Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world, Hardie Grant Books, 424/7, Ben Bland
HANNAN, Victoria, Kokomo, Hachette, 423/31, Jane Sullivan
HARDCASTLE, Sophie, Below Deck, Allen & Unwin, 420/49, Astrid Edwards
HAYES, Nick, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the lines that divide us, Bloomsbury, 427/63, Gregory Day
HAZZARD, Shirley, The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard, Virago, 427/34, Brenda Niall
HEFFER, Simon, Staring at God: Britain in the Great War, Random House, 420/15, Joan Beaumont
HENNESSY, Peter, Winds of Change: Britain in the early sixties, Allen Lane, 418/29, Glyn Davis
HILL, Barry, Eagerly We Burn: Selected poems 1980–2018, Shearsman Books, 420/41, Geoff Page
HINTON, Hilde, The Loudness of Unsaid Things, Hachette, 420/33, Naama Grey-Smith
HOARE, Judith, The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes, Scribe, 42046, Carol Middleton
HOFFMAN, Adina, Ben Hecht: Fighting words, moving pictures, Yale University Press, 418/62, Aaron Nyerges
HOLBROOK, Carolyn (ed.) and Keir Reeves (ed.), The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration, UNSW Press, 420/14, Kate Ariotti
HOLLAND, Eva, Nerve: A personal journey through the science of fear, Pantera Press, 424/64, Diane Stubbings
HORTON, Luke, The Fogging, Scribe, 423/33, Fiona Wright
IMMERWAHR, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: A short history of the greater United States, Bodley Head, 418/47, Andrew Broertjes
INGLIS, Ken et al., Dunera Lives, Volume II, Monash University Publishing, 425/14, Adam Wakeling
IRVING, Terry, The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe, Monash University Publishing, 423/26, Jon Piccini
JACCARD, Mark, The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming myths that hinder progress, Cambridge University Press, 422/52, Natalie Osborne
JAIRETH, Subhash, Spinoza’s Overcoat: Travels with writers and poets, Transit Lounge, 422/44, Dan Dixon
JAKU, Eddie, The Happiest Man on Earth, Macmillan, 425/35, Tali Lavi
JAMES, Clive, Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected writings on Philip Larkin, Picador, 419/32, Geoff Page
JANACZEWSKA, Noëlle, Scratchland, UWAP, 426/55, James Antoniou
JANSON, Julie, Benevolence, Magabala Books, 423/35, Jessica Urwin
JENNINGS, Kathleen, Flyaway, Picador, 426/31, Georgia White
JOHNSTON, Martin, Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems, Ligature, 427/43, John Hawke
JONES, Gail, Our Shadows, Text, 425/22, Sue Kossew
JONES, Peter, Vox Populi: Everything you wanted to know about the classical world but were afraid to ask, Atlantic, 421/51, Alastair Blanshard
JOSEPHSON, Paul R., Chicken: A history from farmyard to factory, Polity, 424/65, Ben Brooker
KAPLAN, James, Irving Berlin: New York genius, Yale, 421/63, Andrew Ford
KARSKENS, Grace, People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia, Allen & Unwin, 426/7, Alan Atkinson
KATZEN, Hayley, Untethered, Ventura Press, 422/46, Susan Varga
KEANE, John, The New Despotism, Harvard, 422/10, Glyn Davis
KELEN, Stephen K., A Happening in Hades, Puncher & Wattmann, 423/61, James Jiang
KELLY, Paul (ed.), Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly, Hamish Hamilton, 419/40, Kerryn Goldsworthy
KENEALLY, Meg, The Wreck, Echo, 427/35, Pip Smith
KENEALLY, Tom, The Dickens Boy, Vintage, 420/29, Georgie Williamson
KENT, Jacqueline, Vida: A woman for our time, Viking, 425/34, Sylvia Martin
KEYSSAR, Alexander, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, Harvard University Press, 424/13, Varun Ghosh
KHADER, Serene J., Decolonizing Universalism: A transnational feminist ethic, Oxford University Press, 418/51, Daniel Halliday
KINSELLA, John, Displaced: A rural life, Transit Lounge, 424/61, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
KIRK, Edwin, The Genes That Make Us: Human stories from a revolution in medicine, Scribe, 425/60, Diane Stubbings
KNOX, Malcolm, Bluebird, Allen & Unwin, 425/29, Jo Case
Koestenbaum, Wayne, Figure It Out: Essays, Soft Skull Press, 424/24, Keegan O’Connor
KOVAL, Ramona, A Letter to Layla: Travels to our deep past and near future, Text, 426/60, Danielle Clode
KRUIMINK, K.M., A Treacherous Country, Allen & Unwin, 422/29, Nicole Abadee
LAGUNA, Sofie, Infinite Splendours, Allen & Unwin, 426/34, Nicole Abadee
LAWSON, Valerie, Dancing Under the Southern Skies: A history of ballet in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/66, Luke Forbes
LE HUNTE, Bem, Elephants with Headlights, Transit Lounge, 422/31, Declan Fry
LEBRECHT, Norman, Genius and Anxiety: How Jews changed the world, 1847–1947, Oneworld, 423/54, Tali Lavi
LEE, Bri, Beauty, Allen & Unwin, 418/44, Suzy Freeman-Greene
LEE, Daniel, The SS Officer’s Armchair: In search of a hidden life, Jonathan Cape, 426/58, Robert Dessaix
LEE, Hermione, Tom Stoppard: A life, Knopf, 427/17, Geordie Williamson
LEE, Janet, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, modernity and the New Woman, Sydney University Press, 424/46, Susan Sheridan
LEFEVRE, Carol, Murmurations, Spinifex Press, 423/34, Josephine Taylor
LENNAN, Jo, In the Time of Foxes, Scribner, 424/31, Debra Adelaide
LERNER, Ben, The Topeka School, Granta, 418/34, Johanna Leggatt
LEVER Susan, Creating Australian Television Drama: A screenwriting history, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 425/51, Moya Costello
LI, Mary, Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer, Viking, 427/62, Jacqueline Kent
LILLEY, Kate, Tilt, Vagabond, 425/56, Anders Villani
LINZ, Talia and Michelle Newton (eds), Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre, Artspace Confort Moderne and UQ Art Museum, 421/58, Julie Ewington
LLORET, Bruno (translated by Ellen Jones), Nancy, Giramondo, 424/37, Elizabeth Bryer
LOHREY, Amanda, The Labyrinth, Text, 424/32, Morag Fraser
MABBERLEY, David J., Botanical Revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin, NewSouth, 419/46, Danielle Close
MACDONALD, Helen, Vesper Flights: New and collected essays, Jonathan Cape, 424/66, Andrew Fuhrmann
MACHADO, Carmen Maria, In the Dream House: A memoir, Serpent’s Tail, 419/34, Zora Simic
MACKENZIE, Jennifer, Navigable Ink, Transit Lounge, 423/61, James Jiang
MACLEAN, Kama, British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire, UNSW Press, 423/25, Chris Wallace
MACRIS, Anthony, Aftershocks: Selected writings and interviews, UWAP, 419/18, Kári Gíslason
MAIDEN, Jennifer, The Espionage Act: New poems, Quemar Press, 419/41, James Jiang
MAIDEN, Samantha, Party Animals: The secret history of a Labor fiasco, Viking, 421/30, Paul Williams
MANNING, Paddy, Body Count: How climate change is killing us (Second Edition), Simon & Schuster, 425/47, Timothy Neale
MANNIX, Anthony, The Toy of the Spirit, Puncher & Wattmann, 421/60, Barnaby Smith
MARANTZ, Andrew, Antisocial: How online extremists broke America, Picador, 420/17, Andrew Broertjes
MARGARET, Bearman, We Were Never Friends, Brio, 424/34, Mindy Gill
MARSHALL, Wayne, Shirl, Affirm Press, 420/32, Susan Midalia
MARTIN, Adrian, Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on film theory, history and culture, UWA Publishing, 424/62, Nicholas Bugeja
MARTIN, Sylvia, Sky Swimming: Reflection on auto/biography, people and place, UWA Publishing, 423/66, Sarah Walker
MARTINKUS, John, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, Black Inc., 424/11, Kieran Pender
MASLEN, Kylie, Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness, Text, 426/52, Kate Crowcroft
MASON, Meg, Sorrow and Bliss, Fourth Estate, 427/37, Alexandra Philp
MAYOR, Thomas, Finding the Heart of the Nation: The journey of the Uluru Statement towards voice, treaty and truth, Hardie Grant Books, 418/12, David Trigger
MAZZA, Donna, Fauna, Allen & Unwin, 422/35, Rosalind Moran
McConaghy, Charlotte, The Last Migration, Hamish Hamilton, 423/30, J.R. Burgmann
McGREGOR, Russell, Idling in Green Places: A life of Alex Chisholm, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 418/26, Danielle Clode
McKAY, Laura Jean, The Animals in That Country, Scribe, 421/38, Ben Brooker
McKINNEY, Meredith (ed.), Travels with a Painting Brush: Classical Japanese travel writing from the Manyōshū to Bashō, Penguin, 418/10, Barry Hill
McNEILL, Sophie, We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity, ABC Books, 421/50, Thomas McGee
McPHEE, Justin T., Spinning the Secrets of State: Politics and intelligence in Australia, Monash University Publishing, 427/13, Peter Edwards
McPHEE-BROWNE, Laura, Cherry Beach, Text, 421/53, Chloë Cooper
McTiernan, Dervla, The Good Turn, HarperCollins, 420/35, Kirsten Tranter
MEACHAM, Jon, His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the power of hope, 427/51, Varun Ghosh
MEXTED, Kathy, Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air, NewSouth, 427/64, Jay Daniel Thompson
MILDENHALL, Kate, The Mother Fault, Simon & Schuster, 427/41, Amy Baillieu
MILLER, Alex, Max, Allen & Unwin, 425/36, Jane Sullivan
MITCHELL, David, Utopia Avenue, Sceptre, 424/33, James Bradley
MOALEM, Sharon, The Better Half: On the genetic superiority of women, Allen Lane, 422/51, Zora Simic
MOLITORISZ, Sacha, Net Privacy: How we can be free in an age of surveillance, NewSouth, 422/42, Alex Tighe
MONAGHAN, Paul and Michael Walsh (eds), More Than Mere Words: Essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton, Wakefield Press, 427/56, Stephen Bennetts
MORALES, Helen, Antigone Rising: The subversive power of the ancient myths, Wildfire, 425/46, Greta Hawes
MORAN, Mark and Jodie Curth-Bibb (eds), Too Close to Ignore, Melbourne University Press, 424/11, Kieran Pender
MORRISON, Fiona, Christina Stead and the Matter of America, Sydney University Press, 419/33, Anne Pender
MUELLER, Tom, Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an age of fraud, Atlantic Books, 421/15, Kiernan Pender
MULLINS, Patrick, The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system, Scribe, 422/17, James Ley
NEWSTOK, Scott, How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance education, Princeton University Press, 424/57, David McInnis
NIALL, Brenda, Friends and Rivals: Four great Australian writers, Text, 421/28, Kerryn Goldsworthy
NOSKE, Catherine, The Salt Madonna, Picador, 419/26, Felicity Plunkett
NOWRA, Louis, Collected Stories, Arden, 419/25, Gerard Windsor
NUNEZ, Sigrid, What Are You Going Through: A novel, Virago, 427/40, Brenda Walker
O’BEIRNE, Sean, A Couple of Things Before the End, Black Inc., 420/32, Susan Midalia
O’NEILL, Betty, The Other Side of Absence: Discovering my father’s secrets, Ventura Press, 426/13, Iva Glisic
OCHOA, Gabriel García, The Hypermarket, LCG Media, 420/36, Cassandra Atherton
OGLE, Susan and Melanie Joosten (eds), A Lasting Conversation: Stories on ageing, 422/50, Kerryn Goldsworthy
ORD, Toby, The Precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity, Bloomsbury, 427/59, Robert Sparrow
ORESKES, Naomi, Why Trust Science?, Princeton University Press, 421/44, Diane Stubbings
OVENDON, Richard, Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack, John Murray, 425/53, Simon Caterson
PAGE, Tony, Anh and Lucien, UWAP, 426/55, James Antoniou
PATRICK, Aaron, The Surprise Party: How the coalition went from chaos to comeback, Black Inc., 418/19, Shaun Crowe
PERLSTEIN, Rick, Reaganland: America’s right turn 1976–-1980, Simon & Schuster, 427/52, Andrew Broertjes
PERRY, Kyle, The Bluffs, Michael Joseph, 424/36, David Whish-Wilson
PERSSE, Jonathan, David Campbell: A life of the poet, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 424/16, Philip Mead
PHAM, Vivian, The Coconut Children, Vintage, 420/36, Sonia Nair
PIEPER, Liam, Sweetness and Light, Hamish Hamilton, 421/39, Jay Daniel Thompson
PIGGIN, Stuart and Robert D. Linder, Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians in Australian history 1914–2014, Monash University Publishing, 419/14, Hugh Chilton
PINNE, Peter and Peter Wyllie Johnston, The Australian Musical from the Beginning, Allen & Unwin, 419/67, Gillian Wills
PIPPOS, Andrew, Lucky’s, Picador, 426/33, Sonia Nair
PLIBERSEK, Tanya, Upturn: A better normal after Covid-19, NewSouth, 427/8, Morag Fraser
PLUNKETT, Felicity, A Kinder Sea, University of Queensland Press, 420/38, Philip Mead
POIRIER, Agnès, Notre-Dame: The soul of France, Oneworld, 424/63, Gemma Betros
POMARE, J.P., In the Clearing, Hachette, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
POPKIN, Jeremy D., A New World Begins: The history of the French Revolution, Basic Books, 425/49, Peter McPhee
POWER, Samantha, The Education of an Idealist: A memoir, William Collins, 418/46, Varun Ghosh
PROCTER, Alice, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums and why we need to talk about it, Hachette, 422/63, Meg Foster
PULLMAN, Philip, The Book of Dust, Volume Two: The secret commonwealth, Penguin and David Fickling Books, 419/22, Peter Craven
PURCELL, Leah, The Drover’s Wife: The legend of Molly Johnson, Hamish Hamilton, 419/24, Ellen van Neerven
PYBUS, Cassandra, Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse, Allen & Unwin, 420/11, Billy Griffiths
PYNE, Christopher, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble, Hachette, 423/19, James Walter
PYNE, Stephen J., Fire: A brief history, NewSouth, 425/47, Timothy Neale
RABY, Geoff, China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order, Melbourne University Press, 426/14, Hugh White
REAY, Barry, Trans America: A counter-history, Polity, 421/52, Yves Rees
REBANKS, James, English Pastoral: An inheritance, Allen Lane, 426/23, Andrew Fuhrmann
RÉE, Jonathan, Witcraft: The invention of philosophy in English, Allen Lane, 418/50, Janna Thompson
RICATTI, Francesco, Italians in Australia: History, memory, identity, Palgrave Macmillan, 418/49, Diana Glenn
RIELLY, Derek, Gulpilil, Macmillan, 418/27, Stephen Bennetts
RIWOE, Mirandi, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, University of Queensland Press, 421/49, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, Who Owns History? Elgin’s loot and the case for returning plundered treasure, Knopf, 419/44, Janna Thompson
ROBIN, Corey, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Henry Holt, 424/15, Heather Roberts
ROBINSON, Kim Stanley, The Ministry for the Future, Orbit, 425/27, J.R. Burgmann
ROBINSON, Marilynne, Jack, Hachette, 427/39, Alice Nelson
ROCKEL, Angela, Rogue Intensities, UWAP, 419/56, Rayne Allinson
ROWE, Josephine, On Beverley Farmer: Writers on writers, Black Inc., 427/30, Anna MacDonald
RUCKER, Philip and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s testing of America, Bloomsbury, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
RYAN, Brendan, The Lowlands of Moyne, Walleah Press, 420/39, David McCooey
SALOM, Philip, The Fifth Season, Transit Lounge, 427/36, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SAMSON, Polly, A Theatre for Dreamers, Bloomsbury, 412/34, Kirsten Tranter
SANDEL, Michael J., The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good?, Allen Lane, 427/14, Glyn Davis
SANDS, Philippe, The Ratline: Love, lies and justice on the trail of a Nazi fugitive, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 422/25, Sheila Fitzpatrick
SAVAGE, Ellena, Blueberries, Text, 420/24, Caitlin McGregor
SAVIGE, Jaya, Change Machine, University of Queensland Press, 425/55, Judith Bishop
SCALMER, Sean, Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the making of Australian politics, Monash University Publishing, 422/14, Benjamin T. Jones
SCHOLTE, Astrid, The Vanishing Deep, Allen & Unwin, 422/33, Margaret Robson Kett
SCOTT, Charlotte, The Child in Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, 424/56, Rayne Allinson
SCOTT, John A., Shorter Lives, Puncher & Wattmann, 423/59, Michael Farrell
SCOTT, Ronnie, The Adversary, Hamish Hamilton, 421/37, Alex Cothren
SCOTT, Stanley John, Chis: The life and work of Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888–1981), Ancora Press, 419/45, Colin Nettelbeck
SCRIMGEOUR, Anne, On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946–1949, Monash University Press, 420/12, Jan Richardson
SCULL, Andrew, Psychiatry and its Discontents, University of California Press, 421/54, James Dunk
SERONG, Jock, The Burning Island, Text, 424/38, Nicole Abadee
SIEGELBERG, Mira L., Statelessness: A modern history, Harvard University Press, 427/58, Ruth Balint
SILVEY, Craig, Honeybee, Allen & Unwin, 426/36, Anna MacDonald
SKIDELSKY, Robert, What’s Wrong with Economics? A primer for the perplexed, Yale University Press, 423/55, John Tang
SLUCKI, David, Sing This at my Funeral: A memoir of fathers and sons, Wayne State University Press, 418/63, Merav Fima
SMITH, Ali, Summer, Hamish Hamilton, 425/23, Felicity Plunkett
SMITH, Loretta, A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s first all-girl garage, Hachette, 418/32, Sharon Verghis
SMITH, Zadie, Intimations: Six essays, Penguin, 424/23, Tali Lavi
SOLNIT, Rebecca, Recollections of My Non-Existence, Granta, 421/43, Megan Clement
SPRAGUE, Quentin, The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting, Hardie Grant Books, 422/64, Luke Stegemann
STARR, Kimberley, Torched, Pantera Press, 421/39, David Whish-Wilson
STEFFENSEN, Victor, Fire Country: How Indigenous fire management could help save Australia, Hardie Grant Books, 419/53, Tim Low
STONE, Oliver, Chasing the Light: How I fought my way into Hollywood: From the 1960s to Platoon, Oliver Stone, 425/50, Aaron Nyerges
SULLIVAN, Thom, Carte Blache, Vagabond Press, 420/39, David McCooey
SUNSTEIN, Cass R., Conformity: The power of social influences, New York University Press, 420/50, Russell Blackford
TAN, Elizabeth, Smart Ovens for Lonely People, Brio Books, 422/32, Lisa Bennett
TEMPLE, Peter, The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish, Text, 418/41, Chris Flynn
THEROUX, Paul, On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican road trip, Hamish Hamilton, 419/57, Gabriel García Ochoa
THOMAS, Daniel, Recent Past: Writing Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 427/20, Julie Ewington
THOMPSON, Barry Lee, Broken Rules and Other Stories, Transit Lounge, 425/32, Elizabeth Bryer
TICKNER, Robert, Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion, Scribe, 420/43, Josh Black
TOOHEY, Brian, Secret: The making of Australia’s security state, Melbourne University Press, 418/17, Kieran Pender
TREDINNICK, Mark, A Gathered Distance: Poems, Birdfish Books, 422/55, Geoff Page
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh and Richard Davenport-Hines (ed.), The China Journals: Ideology and intrigue in the 1960s, Bloomsbury, 426/16, Nicholas Jose
TROMLY, Benjamin, Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to free Russia, Oxford University Press, 419/42, Mark Edele
TRUMP, Mary, Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created the world’s most dangerous man, Simon & Schuster, 425/10, Timothy J. Lynch
TSIOLKAS, Christos, Damascus, Allen & Unwin, 418/38, Kerryn Goldsworthy
TU, Jessie, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, Allen & Unwin, 423/35, Astrid Edwards
TURNBULL, Malcolm, A Bigger Picture, Hardie Grant Books, 422/8, Judith Brett
TURNER, Todd, Thorn, Puncher & Wattmann, 427/46, Anders Villani
UGLOW, Jenny, Mr Lear: a life of art and nonsense, Faber, 419/39, James Antoniou
UHLMANN, Anthony, J.M. Coetzee: Truth, meaning, fiction, Bloomsbury Academic, 423/15, Paul Giles
VALLELY, Paul, Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg, Bloomsbury, 427/14, Glyn Davis
VISKIC, Emma, Darkness for Light, Echo, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
VOLK, Felicity, Desire Lines, Hachette, 420/28, Alice Nelson
WAGNER, Izabela, Bauman: A biography, Polity, 424/17, Anthony Elliott
WALLACE, Chris, How to Win an Election, NewSouth, 426/59, Nadia David
WARD, Donna, She I Dare Not Name: A spinster’s meditations on life, Allen & Unwin, 421/41, Jacqueline Kent
WATSON, Don, Watsonia: A writing life, Black Inc., 427/10, Frank Bongiorno
WESTE, Linda, Inside the Verse Novel: Writers on writing, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 424/54, Cassandra Atherton
WHISH-WILSON, David, True West, Fremantle Press, 419/28, Stephen Dedman
WHITE, Christian, The Wife and the Widow, Affirm Press, 418/36, David Whish-Wilson
WHITTAKER, Alison (ed.), Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today, University of Queensland Press, 423/60, Declan Fry
WHYTE, Jessica, The Morals of the Market: Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism, Verso, 423/27, Benjamin Huf
WIENER, Anna, Uncanny Valley, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 420/44, Jack Callil
WILSON, A.N., The Mystery of Charles Dickens, Atlantic Books, 425/58, Graham Tulloch
WOOD, John, How I Clawed My Way to the Middle, Viking, 425/61, Diana Simmonds
WOODWARD, Bob, Rage, Simon & Schuster, 426/10, Gideon Haigh
WOTHERS, Peter, Antimony, Gold and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the elements were named, Oxford University Press, 419/50, Robyn Arianrhod
WYLD, Evie, The Bass Rock, Vintage, 419/27, Amy Baillieu
YOUNG, Georgina, Loner, Text, 425/32, Thuy On
ZEVIN, Alexander, Liberalism at Large: The world according to The Economist, Verso, 419/12, Dominic Kelly
Π.O., Heide, Giramondo, 418/61, James Jiang
2020 Features Index
ABR Arts
ABR Arts reviews can be read here.
Epiphany
DICKSON, Ian, ‘Applause, Applause: The education of an operamane’, 422/48
Film/Television/Streaming
A Hidden Life (Fox Searchlight Pictures / Disney), Jordan Prosser, online only
Hearts and Bones (Madman), 422/61, Jordan Prosser
Mank (Netflix), Barnaby Smith, online only
Mrs. America (Hulu/FX), Jordan Prosser, online only
Mystery Road (Bunya Productions), 423/71, Jordan Prosser
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Madman Films), Richard Leathem, online only
Ratched (Netflix), 426/63, Tim Byrne
The Boys in the Band (Netflix), 426/62, Dennis Altman
The Lighthouse (A24), Andrew Nette, online only
The Plot Against America (HBO), 422/67, Ben Brooker
The Professor and the Madman (Transmission Films), Barnaby Smith, online only
The Social Dilemma (Netflix), 425/16, Josh Krook
The Truth (Palace), 418/71, Felicity Chaplin
True History of the Kelly Gang (Stan), 419/63, Jordan Prosser
Uncut Gems (Netflix), Jack Callil, online only
Music
Messe de Minuit (Pinchgut Opera), Michael Halliwell, online only
Requiem (Festival d’Aix/Adelaide Festival), 421/62, Michael Morley
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, (Broadway.com), 422/59, Tim Byrne
The Sound of History: Beethoven, Napoleon and Revolution (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra), Peter Tregear, online only
Opera
Attila (Opera Australia), Michael Halliwell, online only
Così fan tutte (WA Opera), Humphrey Bower, online only
Fidelio (Melbourne Opera), 419/63, Elizabeth Kertesz
Fidelio (West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Asher Fisch), Will Yeoman, online only
La Bohème (Opera Australia), Peter Rose, online only
Requiem (Adelaide Festival), Michael Morley, online only
Salome (Victorian Opera), 420/56, Michael Shmith
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, (State Opera South Australia), Ben Brooker, online only
Theatre
Cock, Cock … Who’s There? (Adelaide Festival), 422/66, Tali Lavi
Crunch Time (Ensemble Theatre), Seán Maroney, online only
Emerald City (MTC/Queensland Theatre), 420/58, Diane Stubbings
Home, I’m Darling (Melbourne Theatre Company), Diane Stubbings , online only
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (Belvoir St Theatre), 419/60, Susan Lever
My Brilliant Career (Belvoir St Theatre), Polly Simons, online only
Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA), Francesca Saisnatis, online only
Packer & Sons (Belvoir St Theatre), 418/67, Ian Dickson
The Curtain (fortyfivedownstairs), 420/57, Fiona Gruber
The Deep Blue Sea (Sydney Theatre Company), 419/61, Ian Dickson
The Doctor (Almeida Theatre/Adelaide Festival), Michael Morley, online only
The Doll (State Opera South Australia), 427/64, Ben Brooker
The Feather in the Web (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), Laura Hartnell, online only
The Great Australian Play (Theatre Works), Sarah Walker, online only
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sydney Theatre Company), Ian Dickson, online only
Torch the Place (Melbourne Theatre Company), Tim Byrne, online only
Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company), 426/61, Ian Dickson
Visual Arts
Assembled: The Art of Robert Klippel, (TarraWarra Museum of Art), 420/59, Patrick McCaughey
Feedback Loops (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Diego Ramirez, online only
Hugh Ramsay (National Gallery of Victoria), 418/69, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines (National Gallery of Victoria), 418/68, Sophie Knezic
Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (TarraWarra Museum of Art), Saskia Beudel, online only
Streeton (Art Gallery of New South Wales), Julie Ewington, online only
Tim, (Museum of Old and New Art), 421/59, Rayne Allinson
Book Talk
‘Diversity and Australian Literary Studies’, online only
‘PEN Melbourne supports Belarusian PEN and Svetlana Alexievich’, online only
‘Q&A with Monash intern Bernd Faveere’, online only
ADABEE, Nicole, ‘A perfect storm: Promoting new books in a time of isolation’, online only
GIANNOUKOS, Tina, ‘Two new poetry series: MPU and the year of the pandemic’, online only
HAWKE, John, ‘Poetry and Australian Book Review’, online only
LIN, Chris, ‘The Case for Myanmar’s Peacock Generation’, online only
ROSE, Peter, ‘Australian Book Review and the Australia Council’, online only
Essays and Commentary
ARCHER, Robyn, ‘“I spoke to many people and listened”: On living in a time of Covid-19’, 421/11
BLACK, Joshua, ‘After the waves: A tribute to a pioneering Labor feminist’, 426/50
FRICKER, David, ‘Questions of access: The National Archives responds to Jenny Hocking’s articles on the “Palace letters”’, 421/13
GRIFFITHS, Tom, ‘Season of Reckoning’, 419/9
HOCKING, Jenny, ‘At Her Majesty’s pleasure: Sir John Kerr and the royal dismissal secrets’, 420/8
HOLMES, David, ‘Listening to the science: Coronavirus and climate change’, 426/54
HOLMES, David, ‘Suddenly last summer: The politics of climate change in Australia’, 419/36
HUGHES-d’AETH, Tony, ‘Thinking in a regional accent: New ways of contemplating Australian writers’, 426/24
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Blankety-blank: The art of the euphemism’, 427/49
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Coronaspeak: Tracking language in a pandemic’, 422/40
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Crisis lexicon’, 419/17
LAUGESEN, Amanda, ‘Whither wowser?’, 418/43
LEATHEM, Richard, ‘Celluloid Clouds: Cinema’s future in Australia’, 427/65
LEGGATT, Johanna, ‘New deserts: A worrying portent for our democracy’, 420/21
MUNZ, Martin, ‘Slurring a good name: The pitfalls of careless scholarship’, 426/12
REES, Yves, ‘Surging into the spotlight: Writing trans and gender-diverse lives’, 419/54
ROSE, Peter, ‘First the pandemic, then the Australia Council’, 421/1
STEVENS, Lara, ‘Acts of intimate banality: Questioning the axing of Casey Jenkin’s grant’, 427/50
TOCHKA, Nicholas, ‘“Fear of the latent germ”: Government versus artists during the Spanish Flu’, 422/60
WALKER, Sarah, ‘Contested breath: The ethics of assembly in an age of absurdity’, 422/20
WOOD, Robert, ‘Rights and responsibilities: Literary journals and freedom of expression’, 422/41
Fellowship Essays
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘Failures of imagination: A journey from Tehran’s prisons to Australia’s immigration detention centres’, 426/39
RAZAVI, Hessom, ‘Notes on a pandemic: How society has responded to Covid-19’, 421/18
Prizes
Calibre Essay Prize
MIDDLETON, Kate, ‘The Dolorimeter’, 424/48
REES, Yves, ‘Reading the mess backwards’, 422/36
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
BROWN, Lachlan, ‘Precision Signs’, 418/54
COLEMAN, Claire G., ‘That Wadjela Tongue’, 418/56
GILLETT, Ross, ‘South Coast Sonnets’, 418/57
JOHNSON, Frances A., ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’, 418/53
MANNING, Julie, ‘Constellation of Bees’, 418/55
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
GARROW, C.J., ‘Egg Timer’, 423/36
HOLLANDER, Simone, ‘Hieroglyph’, 423/41
SAUNDERS, Mykaela, ‘River Story’, 423/45
Interviews
Open Page
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 423/69
BRADLEY, James, 421/56
CERIDWEN, Dovey, 418/64
CLODE, Danielle, 427/42
FIDLER, Richard, 425/62
FORD, Andrew, 419/58
LOHREY, Amanda, 424/40
PYBUS, Cassandra, 420/54
SILVEY, Craig, 426/38
Poet of the Month
ALIZADEH, Ali, 420/42
BISHOP, Judith, 426/57
DUGGAN, Laurie, 424/55
Publisher of the Month
CURRY, Jane, 419/38
GRANT, Sandy, 425/45
Critic of the Month
GILES, Paul, 427/32
Poetry
Poems
BEAVER, Bruce, ‘Sonnet for Dr Michael Kennedy’, 424/28
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Slaughter’, 427/21
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Portraits of the Future’, 426/22
BOYLE, Peter, ‘Crowded Out’, 423/58
DAY, Sarah, ‘To Hassan’, 426/46
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Dawn Solo’, 422/16
FITCH, Toby, ‘New Work Metaphorics’, 426/56
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘Vegas’, 419/30
GORTON, Lisa, ‘On the Characterisation of Male Poets’ Mothers’, 421/46
HARWOOD, Gwen, ‘Carnal Knowledge I’, 422/26
HENRY, Brian, ‘Same Mind’, 425/20
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Charm for 2020’, 424/26
KANE, Paul, ‘In the Luxembourg Gardens’, 421/16
KLEE, Louis, ‘Actually Existing Australia’, 425/38
LILLEY, Kate, ‘For Noting’, 425/52
MALOUF, David, ‘A Grace Note’, 423/17
ROSE, Peter, ‘Come, Memory’, 420/16
RULE, Belinda, ‘Birds’, 419/13
RYAN, Gig, ‘Fortune’s Favours’, 421/29
RYAN, Gig, ‘Simaetha’, 427/48
SAVIGE, Jaya, ‘Bach to the Fuchsia’, 422/34
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, ‘We Play and Hope’, 420/40
WATTISON, Meredith, ‘Votive’, 424/45
Surveys
Books of the Year
ALIZADEH, Ali, 427/23
ANDERSON, Don, 427/23
BIRCH, Tony, 427/23
BONGIORNO, Frank, 427/23
BRETT, Judith, 427/23
DAY, Gregory, 427/23
FRASER, Morag, 427/23
FRY, Declan, 427/23
GILES, Paul, 427/23
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 427/23
GRIFFITHS, Billy, 427/23,
HAWKE, John, 427/23
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, 427/23
HUGHES-D’AETH, Tony, 427/23
JOHNSON, Frances A., 427/23
KENT, Jacqueline, 427/23
KINSELLA, John, 427/23
LEY, James, 427/23
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 427/23
McCOOEY, David, 427/23
MEAD, Philip, 427/23
NELSON, Alice, 427/23
NIALL, Brenda, 427/23
PENDER, Kieran, 427/23
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 427/23
REES, Yves, 427/23
ROSE, Peter, 427/23
SILCOX, Beejay, 427/23
SYNDHAM, Susan, 427/23
WALKER, Brenda, 427/23
WALKER, Sarah, 427/23
WALTER, James, 427/23
WILLIAMS, Kim, 427/23
Publisher Picks
CURNOW, Meredith, 418/58
HOLLIER, Nathan, 418/58
HUGHES, Martin, 418/58
McGUINNESS, Phillipa, 418/58
MILNE, Catherine, 418/58
RICHTER, Georgia, 418/58
SCOTT, Barry, 418/58
TUFFIELD, Aviva, 418/58
WATKINS, Robert, 418/58
WILLIAMS, Sophy, 418/58
Seismographs of the human heart
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 421/24
ALTMAN, Dennis, 421/24
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 421/24
de KRETSER, Michelle, 421/24
FLANNERY, Tim, 421/24
FLYNN, Chris, 421/24
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 421/24
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 421/24
MAHOOD, Kim, 421/24
NELSON, Alice, 421/24
PLUNKETT, Felicity, 421/24
ROSE, Peter, 421/24
TRANTER, Kirsten, 421/24
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, 421/24