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ABR Cultural Tours

The ABR Podcast 

Released every Thursday, the ABR podcast features our finest reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary.

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Lake Pelosi

‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom

by Marilyn Lake

This week on The ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi. The Art of Power, explains Lake, tells how Pelosi, ‘a mother of five and a housewife from California’, became the first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Marilyn Lake is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Listen to Marilyn Lake’s ‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom’, published in the November issue of ABR.

 

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ABR is delighted to present regular cultural tours in partnership with Academy Travel. 

 

ABR is delighted to present regular cultural tours in partnership with Academy Travel.

 


ABR Adelaide Festival Tour 2023

3–11 March 2023

ABR is delighted to present regular cultural tours in partnership with Academy Travel.

 



ABR Vienna Tour 2023

13–24 October 2023

ABR is delighted to present regular cultural tours in partnership with Academy Travel.

 


ABR Adelaide Festival Tour 2024

1–9 March 2024

ABR is delighted to present regular cultural tours in partnership with Academy Travel.

 



ABR Vienna Tour 2024 (sold out)

15-27 October 2024

Australian Book Review looks forward to a very different year for the arts from 2020–21. To mark the imminent reopening, we were delighted to announce a nine-day visit to Adelaide in 2022 for ABR Patrons and supporters. The tour was led by Peter Rose (Editor of ABR) and Christopher Menz (former Director of the Art Gallery of South Austra ...

Munich to Berlin: Art, music, & literature

Australian Book Review in Germany

June 2–15, 2018

ABR’s third international cultural tour, in partnership with Academy Travel, took us to Germany. Once again the tour was led by Peter Rose, ABR Editor and CEO, and Christopher Menz, ABR Development Consultant and former gallery di ...

Shakespeare: Australian Book Review in England

June 14–25, 2017

 

The Globe TheatreThe Globe Theatre

Australian Book Review in the United States

Australian Book Review’s seventeen-day US tour – led by Peter Rose and Christopher Menz – took us from Washington, DC to New York City. It was the first of its kind undertaken by the magazine. Our aim was to take ABR on the road with a party of keen readers and supporters. The tour began at the Australian Emb ...