No.447 OCTOBER 2022: To wear the crown too easily: a bizarre reign begins [Charles III] / Clare Monagle p9. Handsome Harold: mythologising Robert Menzies' successor ["Harold Holt: Always one step further" / Ross Walker] / James Walter p10. The Daily Dan: a timely political biography ["Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australian's most powerful premier" / Sumeyya Ilanbey] / Gideon Haigh p12. Radical policy prescriptions: the paternalism at the heart of lockdowns ["Lockdown" / Chip Le Grand] / David Jack p14. A scandalous insistence: in pursuit of social change ["Provocations: New and selected writings" / Jeff Sparrow] / Anwen Crawford p15. Under the beach umbrellas: Italy's fragile political system's new test / Claudio Bozzi p17. Negotiating tensions: examining how Australia has gone to war ["The War Game: Australian war leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq" / David Horner] / Peter Edwards p19. Warm and cuddly: drawing on Robert Menzies to settle old scores ["A Sense of Balance" / John Howard] / Patrick Mullins p21. Ask Stuart!: essay on the Macintyre effect ["The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre" / Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski] / Christina Twomey p22. The fight for abolition: a new edition of the 1968 work ["The Penalty is Dead: State power, law and justice" / Barry Jones] / Christopher Ward p23. Flares and embers: a richly detailed analysis of American exceptionalism ["American Exceptionalism: a new history of an old idea" / Ian Tyrrell] / Emma Shortis p26. 'Linger with the voids': examining the relationship between past and present ["Black Ghost of Empire: The long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation" / Kris Manjapra] / Georgina Arnott p27. The spirit of place: a timely antidote to cultural amnesia ["Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Myrray-Smith of Overland" / Jim Davison] / Graeme Davison p30. Unconditional refusal: a stark and uncompromising memoir ["Childhood" / Shannon Burns / Peter Rose p31. Tit for tat: the conflicted life of Sandra Willson ["Between Me and Myself: A memoir of murder, desire and struggle to be free" / Sandra Willson] / Sam Elkin p33. The figure in the carpet: the stories we tell ourselves ["The Idea of Australia: a search for the soul of the nation" / Julianne Schultz] / Robert Phiddian p34. Salman's throat: living with cancer and fatwa [Salman Rushdie] / Peter Goldsworthy p36. A distant levithan: Robbie Arnott's realist new novel ["Limberlost" /Robbie Arnott] / Jennifer Mills p38. Years of doldrum: Ian McEwan's chordal new novel ["Lessons" / Ian McEwan] / Georgie Williamson p39. Vivd worlds: a new novel from Kamila Shamsie ["Best of Friends" / Kamila Shamsie] / Andrew Goldsmith p41. 'How will it end?': the terrible orinies of colonial ambition ["The Settlement" / Jock Serong] / Brenda Walker p42. Survival of the spitefullest: an idiosyncratic allegory ["Lapvona" / Ottessa Moshfegh] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p43. Witch marks" Eliza Henry-Jones's fifth novel ["Salt and Skin" / Eliza Henry-Jones] / Katherine Brabon p44. Raking thr past: Northern Irish fiction in the age of social media / Gillian Russell p44. Experimental flair: three new short story collection / Alex Cotren p49. Killing in the name: a familiar story ["His Name is George Floyd" / Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa] / Declan Fry p50. Poet of the Month with Joan Fleming p52. Nuclear Australia: uranium diplomacy in a shanging world ["Fact of Fission: The truth about Australia's nuclear ambitions" / Richard Broinowski] / Jessica Urwin p54. Mordant marvels: a wondrous, disquieting poetry collection ["Mirabilia" / Lisa Gorton] / Anders Villani p55. 'Floating in nutriens': poetry as an engine of community / Ender Baskan p56. Opera: 'Night and light, black and bright': an almost magisterial performance of "Elektra" / Michael Shmith p60. Theatre: dreams and reality: an American classic finally reaches Australia / Ian Dickson p61. Film: fable and fact: a storyteller first and foremost / Jordan Prosser p62. Music: AWO's sense of adventure: a combination of telepathy, instinct and love / Michael Shmith p63. From the archiece [on 13 August 2022 Salman Rushdie was stabbed] p64.

No.448 NOVEMBER 2022: A great forest of voices: a doubled historical awareness ["Elizabeth and John: the Macarthurs of Elizabeth farm" / Alan Atkinson] / Penny Russell p8. A vast canvas: Bob Moore's ambitious history of prisoners of war ["Prisoners of War: Europe 1939-1956" / Bob Moore] / Joan Beaumont p11. The crunch of broken lives: a forensic, unflinching, yet diffident history [Russia: Revolution and civil war 1917-1921 / Antony Beevor] / Tim McMinn p12. Unconscionable carnage: a pioneer of maxillofacial reconstruction ["The Facemaker: One surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War 1" / Lindsey Fitzharris / Allen Lane] / Michael Winkler p14. Too close for comfort: proximity, perspective and political publication ["Plugued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story", Scott Morrison's leadership / Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers] / Joshua Black p19. The Great Conciliator: The stubborn rise of Anthony Albanese ["Victory: The inside story of Labor's return to power" / Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington] / Martin McKenzie-Murray p20. A room of our own: Elitist notion of identiry politics ["Entire Capture: How the powerful took over identiry politics (and everything else)", Black feminists] / Olufemi O. Taiwo p22. Order and mayhem: a stimulating history of America ["The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era" / Gary Gerstle] / Ian Tyrrell p23. Privacy and power: a practical look at complex issues ["The Fight for Privacy: Protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age" / Danielle Keats Citron] / Jessica Lake p25. Joy is my discipline: life and its contingencies ["Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here", memoir / Heather Rose] / Kristen Tranter p27. Time's wing'd chariot: holding personal extinction at bay ["The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings" / Geoff Dyer] / Geordie Williamson p28. 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan': the long and arduous Joycean adventure ["The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 text with essays and notes" / James Joyce] / Ronan McDonald p30. 'What a piece of artistry': a study of interwar Oxford ["Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars" / Daisy Dunn] / Miles Pattenden p31. On boganism: reflections on class and Australian English / Amanda Laugesen p33. Doom metal malaise: Shaun Prescott's sureal second novel ["Bon and Lesley" / Shaun Prescott] / Morgan Nunan p36. Dismantled lives: Gail Jones's elegant new novel ["Salonika Burning" / Gail Jones] / Diane Stubbings p37. A pinata full up with words: Luke Carman's electric short story collection ["An Ordinary Ecstasy" / Luke Carman] / Sascha Morrell p38. Life versus art" the joys and constrains of artistic freedom ["The Tower" / Carol Lefevre] / Charle Malycon p40. Swatting the drones: Philip Salom's realist fiction ["Sweeney and the Bicycles" / Philip Salom] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p41. Blurring boundaries: Angela Meyer's experimental second novel ["Moon Sugar" / Angela Meyer] / Jennifer Mills p42. 'A wild and lonely place': portrait of marriage in Renaussance Florence ["The Marriage Portrait" / Maggie O'Farrell] / Amy Walters p43. 'Time to be grass again': Colorado comes to Tasmania ["Pacific Light" / David Mason] / Geoff Page p44. Wearne's world: doing the suburbs in different voices ["Near Believing: Selected monologues and narratives 1967-2021" / Alan Wearne] / Michael Farrell p45. A bang-up job!: illuminating farming myths and problems ["Regenesis" / George Monbiot] / Ben Brooker p47. Covid travellers: the struggle between historians and microbes / James Dunk p48. Feathered opportunists: Darryl Jones's quirky natural history ["Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, birds, people and me" / Darryl Jones] / Peter Menkhorst p50. Publisher of the Month - with Terri-ann White p51. Cons, ops and con-ops: an engrossing diplomatic memoir ["The Consul" / Ian Kemish] / Alison Broinwski p52. The essentialism of Cyrano: a new adaptation of Rostand's classic [theatre] / Tim Byrne p54. Catalysing phone calls: Opera Queensland's mainstage double bill / Jenna Robertson p55. Etched in the memory" Rachel Perkins as documentarist and witness / Anne Rutherford p56. A momentous Siegfried: another triumph from Melbourne Opera / Michael Shmith p58.

No.448 NOVEMBER 2022: A great forest of voices: a doubled historical awareness ["Elizabeth and John: the Macarthurs of Elizabeth farm" / Alan Atkinson] / Penny Russell p8. A vast canvas: Bob Moore's ambitious history of prisoners of war ["Prisoners of War: Europe 1939-1956" / Bob Moore] / Joan Beaumont p11. The crunch of broken lives: a forensic, unflinching, yet diffident history [Russia: Revolution and civil war 1917-1921 / Antony Beevor] / Tim McMinn p12. Unconscionable carnage: a pioneer of maxillofacial reconstruction ["The Facemaker: One surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War 1" / Lindsey Fitzharris / Allen Lane] / Michael Winkler p14. Too close for comfort: proximity, perspective and political publication ["Plugued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story", Scott Morrison's leadership / Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers] / Joshua Black p19. The Great Conciliator: The stubborn rise of Anthony Albanese ["Victory: The inside story of Labor's return to power" / Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington] / Martin McKenzie-Murray p20. A room of our own: Elitist notion of identiry politics ["Entire Capture: How the powerful took over identiry politics (and everything else)", Black feminists] / Olufemi O. Taiwo p22. Order and mayhem: a stimulating history of America ["The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era" / Gary Gerstle] / Ian Tyrrell p23. Privacy and power: a practical look at complex issues ["The Fight for Privacy: Protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age" / Danielle Keats Citron] / Jessica Lake p25. Joy is my discipline: life and its contingencies ["Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here", memoir / Heather Rose] / Kristen Tranter p27. Time's wing'd chariot: holding personal extinction at bay ["The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings" / Geoff Dyer] / Geordie Williamson p28. 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan': the long and arduous Joycean adventure ["The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 text with essays and notes" / James Joyce] / Ronan McDonald p30. 'What a piece of artistry': a study of interwar Oxford ["Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars" / Daisy Dunn] / Miles Pattenden p31. On boganism: reflections on class and Australian English / Amanda Laugesen p33. Doom metal malaise: Shaun Prescott's sureal second novel ["Bon and Lesley" / Shaun Prescott] / Morgan Nunan p36. Dismantled lives: Gail Jones's elegant new novel ["Salonika Burning" / Gail Jones] / Diane Stubbings p37. A pinata full up with words: Luke Carman's electric short story collection ["An Ordinary Ecstasy" / Luke Carman] / Sascha Morrell p38. Life versus art" the joys and constrains of artistic freedom ["The Tower" / Carol Lefevre] / Charle Malycon p40. Swatting the drones: Philip Salom's realist fiction ["Sweeney and the Bicycles" / Philip Salom] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p41. Blurring boundaries: Angela Meyer's experimental second novel ["Moon Sugar" / Angela Meyer] / Jennifer Mills p42. 'A wild and lonely place': portrait of marriage in Renaussance Florence ["The Marriage Portrait" / Maggie O'Farrell] / Amy Walters p43. 'Time to be grass again': Colorado comes to Tasmania ["Pacific Light" / David Mason] / Geoff Page p44. Wearne's world: doing the suburbs in different voices ["Near Believing: Selected monologues and narratives 1967-2021" / Alan Wearne] / Michael Farrell p45. A bang-up job!: illuminating farming myths and problems ["Regenesis" / George Monbiot] / Ben Brooker p47. Covid travellers: the struggle between historians and microbes / James Dunk p48. Feathered opportunists: Darryl Jones's quirky natural history ["Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, birds, people and me" / Darryl Jones] / Peter Menkhorst p50. Publisher of the Month - with Terri-ann White p51. Cons, ops and con-ops: an engrossing diplomatic memoir ["The Consul" / Ian Kemish] / Alison Broinwski p52. The essentialism of Cyrano: a new adaptation of Rostand's classic [theatre] / Tim Byrne p54. Catalysing phone calls: Opera Queensland's mainstage double bill / Jenna Robertson p55. Etched in the memory" Rachel Perkins as documentarist and witness / Anne Rutherford p56. A momentous Siegfried: another triumph from Melbourne Opera / Michael Shmith p58.

No.448 NOVEMBER 2022: A great forest of voices: a doubled historical awareness ["Elizabeth and John: the Macarthurs of Elizabeth farm" / Alan Atkinson] / Penny Russell p8. A vast canvas: Bob Moore's ambitious history of prisoners of war ["Prisoners of War: Europe 1939-1956" / Bob Moore] / Joan Beaumont p11. The crunch of broken lives: a forensic, unflinching, yet diffident history [Russia: Revolution and civil war 1917-1921 / Antony Beevor] / Tim McMinn p12. Unconscionable carnage: a pioneer of maxillofacial reconstruction ["The Facemaker: One surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War 1" / Lindsey Fitzharris / Allen Lane] / Michael Winkler p14. Too close for comfort: proximity, perspective and political publication ["Plugued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story", Scott Morrison's leadership / Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers] / Joshua Black p19. The Great Conciliator: The stubborn rise of Anthony Albanese ["Victory: The inside story of Labor's return to power" / Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington] / Martin McKenzie-Murray p20. A room of our own: Elitist notion of identiry politics ["Entire Capture: How the powerful took over identiry politics (and everything else)", Black feminists] / Olufemi O. Taiwo p22. Order and mayhem: a stimulating history of America ["The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era" / Gary Gerstle] / Ian Tyrrell p23. Privacy and power: a practical look at complex issues ["The Fight for Privacy: Protecting dignity, identity and love in the digital age" / Danielle Keats Citron] / Jessica Lake p25. Joy is my discipline: life and its contingencies ["Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here", memoir / Heather Rose] / Kristen Tranter p27. Time's wing'd chariot: holding personal extinction at bay ["The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings" / Geoff Dyer] / Geordie Williamson p28. 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan': the long and arduous Joycean adventure ["The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 text with essays and notes" / James Joyce] / Ronan McDonald p30. 'What a piece of artistry': a study of interwar Oxford ["Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars" / Daisy Dunn] / Miles Pattenden p31. On boganism: reflections on class and Australian English / Amanda Laugesen p33. Doom metal malaise: Shaun Prescott's sureal second novel ["Bon and Lesley" / Shaun Prescott] / Morgan Nunan p36. Dismantled lives: Gail Jones's elegant new novel ["Salonika Burning" / Gail Jones] / Diane Stubbings p37. A pinata full up with words: Luke Carman's electric short story collection ["An Ordinary Ecstasy" / Luke Carman] / Sascha Morrell p38. Life versus art" the joys and constrains of artistic freedom ["The Tower" / Carol Lefevre] / Charle Malycon p40. Swatting the drones: Philip Salom's realist fiction ["Sweeney and the Bicycles" / Philip Salom] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p41. Blurring boundaries: Angela Meyer's experimental second novel ["Moon Sugar" / Angela Meyer] / Jennifer Mills p42. 'A wild and lonely place': portrait of marriage in Renaussance Florence ["The Marriage Portrait" / Maggie O'Farrell] / Amy Walters p43. 'Time to be grass again': Colorado comes to Tasmania ["Pacific Light" / David Mason] / Geoff Page p44. Wearne's world: doing the suburbs in different voices ["Near Believing: Selected monologues and narratives 1967-2021" / Alan Wearne] / Michael Farrell p45. A bang-up job!: illuminating farming myths and problems ["Regenesis" / George Monbiot] / Ben Brooker p47. Covid travellers: the struggle between historians and microbes / James Dunk p48. Feathered opportunists: Darryl Jones's quirky natural history ["Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, birds, people and me" / Darryl Jones] / Peter Menkhorst p50. Publisher of the Month - with Terri-ann White p51. Cons, ops and con-ops: an engrossing diplomatic memoir ["The Consul" / Ian Kemish] / Alison Broinwski p52. The essentialism of Cyrano: a new adaptation of Rostand's classic [theatre] / Tim Byrne p54. Catalysing phone calls: Opera Queensland's mainstage double bill / Jenna Robertson p55. Etched in the memory" Rachel Perkins as documentarist and witness / Anne Rutherford p56. A momentous Siegfried: another triumph from Melbourne Opera / Michael Shmith p58.

No.449 DECEMBER 2022: Restoring Australia's reputation for integrity: Labor's new anti-corruption bill [National Anti-Corruption Bill 2022] / by Stephen Charles p9. Playing the deputy sheriff: Clinton Fernandes's compelling new book [review Subimperial power: Australian in the international arena Clinton Fernandes] / Kevin Foster p11. The real Edith Berrys: Why Australians turned to Geneva [Review: the Australians at Geneva - internationalist diplomacy in the interwar years by James Cotton] / Michelle Staff p16. Just beginning: Grace Tame's story on her own terms [Review the Ninth Life of a diamond miner - a memoir by Grace Tame] / Zora Simic p18. Dual focus: the life of Lachlan Murdoch [Review the Successor - the high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning] / Patrick Mullins p21. Museum life: a thoughtful illumination of a complex man [Review the Naturalist - the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone MucCulloch by Brendan Atkins] / Danielle Clode p23. The power of Bryce: a loving memoir of the bestselling author [Review Bryce Courtenay - Storyteller by Christine Courtenay] / Jacqueline Kent p25. Creative conundrums: Australia's 'foundational thinker' [Review of books Jeremy Bentham and Australia edited by Tim Causer et al & Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia edited by Tim cause and Philip Schofield] / Gordon Pentland p26. Books of the year: Kieran Pender [Hard labour: wage theft in the age of inequality by Ben Schneider, Dreamers and schemes: a political history of Australia by Frank Bongiorno], Frances Wilson, Tony Birch [Suburban Noir: crime and mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney by Peter Doyle, Tense Past by Julie Gough], Sarah Holland-Batt [The sun walks down by Fiona McFarlane], Clare Wright [Desire: a reckoning by Jessie Cole], Peter Rose [Childhood by Shannon Burns, Subimperial power: Australia in the international arena by Clinton Fernandes], Tom Griffiths [The uncaged sky: my 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland by Jim Davidson, My father and other animals: How I took on the family farm by Sam Vincent, Australian deserts: ecology and landscapes by Steve Morton], Beejay Silcox [Decorum serves the rich by Anwen Crawford], Glyn Davis [The careless state: reforming Australia's social services by Mark Considine, the idea of Australia: a search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz], Yves Rees [Childhood by Shannon Burns, Our members be unlimited by Sam Wallman, Losing face by George Haddad], Judith Brett [Telling Tennant's story: the strange career of the great Australian silence by Dean Ashenden, Emperors in Lilliput], Jennifer Mills [Our members be unlimited by Sam Wallman, Unlimited futures: speculative, visionary Blak and Black fiction edited by Rafeif Ismal and Ellen van Neerven, Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor, This devastating fever by Sophie Cunningham], Brenda Niall, Judith Beveridge [Slack Tide by Sarah Day, The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt, Ordinary Time by Anthony Lawrence and Audrey Molloy], Michael Hofman, Mark Kenny [Making Australian History by Anna Clark], Sheila Fitzpatrick, John Kinsella [Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty, Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Judith Wright: Selected writings by Goergina Arnott, Revenants by Adam Aitken], Brenda Walker, Paul Giles [Continuous Creation: last poems by Les Murray], Michael Winkler [Decorum serves the rich by Anwen Crawford, Train lord by Oliver Mol], Frank Bongiorno [The Diplomat by Chris Womersley, Jesustown: a novel by Paul Daley, the bodyline fix: how women saved cricked by Marion Stell], Sean Kelly, Mark McKenna [Dreamers and schemers by Frank Bongiorno, Australia's China odyssey: from euphoria to fear by James Curran], Mindy Gill, Joel Deane [The party: the Communist Party in Australia from heyday to reckoning, the diplomat by Chris Womersley], Felicity Plunkett, Tony Hughes-d'aeth [Judith Wright: selected writings edited by Georgina Wright, The life of such is life: a cultural history of an Australian classic by Roger Osborne, Hopeless kingdom by Kgshak Akec, Banjawarn by Josh Kemp], Goerdie Williamson [Making Australian History by Anna Clark, Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright], Morag Fraser [My accidental career by Brenda Niall, Emperors in Lilliput by Jim Davidson], Gregory Day, James Bradley [Bodies of light by Jennifer Down, Whisper songs by Tony Birch, Astronomy: sky Country by Karlie Noon and Krystal de Napoli], James Ley [Waypoints by Adam Ouston] p28. 'Too many slips showing': Alec Bolton and Australian Book Review [letters between Alec Bolton of Brindabella Press and Australian Book Review] / By Michael Richards p36. The Perfect Bat: that rarity, a cricket novel [review of Willowman by Inga Simpson] / Diane Stubbings p44. Reimagining Iris: an exhilarating squeezebox of a novel [review of Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor] / Felicity Plunkett p45. Big-picture questions: Fiona McFarlane's panoramic fiction [review of the sun walks down by Fiona McFarlane] / Patrick Allington p46. The language of images: judging a graphic book by its cover [review of Stone Fruit by Lee Lai and Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish] / Bernard Caleo p48. Mapping the grey zone: an essayist comfortable with uncertainty [review of Wandering with intent: essays by Kim Mahood] / Shanny Palmer p54. A flawed hero: understanding the 'real' Matthew Flinders [review of Mathew flinders: the man behind the map by Gillian Dooley] / Matthew Cunneen p56. Seizing an opportunity: a diaristic memoir from John Clark [review of an eye for talent: a life at NIDA by John Clark p60. Open page with Fiona Kelly McGregor [interview] p62. 'Clouds of charcoal dust': Fred Williams's London years [exhibition at National Gallery of Victoria] / Irena Zdanowicz p65.

No.450 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023: Call it a revolution' [from a falling veils to a failing regime] / Zoe Holman p8. An epic of perseverance ["The Passion of Private White" / Don Watson, Vietnam veterans] / Tom Griffiths p11. Walking dollar signs ['Freedom, only Freedom' / Behrouz Boochani, refugees] / Hessom Razavi p12. Power without story ['Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's fall and Anthony Albanese's rise' / Niki Savva] / Mark Kenny p14. Teal talks [exaggerating the independents' revolution] / Dennis Altman p20. Greed and crankery ['How to Rule Your Own Country' / Harry Hobbs and George Williams] / Frank Bongiorno p23. The Gillard effect ['Not Now, Not Ever' / Julia Gillard] / Kim Rubenstein p24. Overlapping ambition ['The Long Allience: The imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barak Obama' / Gabriel Debenedetti] / Varum Ghosh p26. Disorganised discontent ['Partisans: The conservative revolutionaries who remade American pokitics in the 1990s' / Nicole Hemmer] / Dominic Kelly p28. Ambiguous gifts ['Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world' / Brett Mason] / Julia Horne p29. A time of stone ['A Brief Affair' / Alex Miller, fiction] / Penny Russell p32. Bobby and Alicia ['The Passenge' / Cormac McCarthy, 'Stella Maris' / Cormac McCarthy, fictions] p33. Sublunary soap bubbles ['Fanatic Heart' / Tom Keneally, fiction] / Ronan McDonald p35. Squinting at Fournier ['The Romantic: The real life of Cashel Grevill Ross / William Boyd, novel] / Gabriella Edelstein p37. The key of admiration ['Eggs for Keeps: Poetry review and other prise' / Barry Hill] / Georgie Williamson p38. Terror hour ['Totality' / Anders Villani] / Maria Takolander p39. "An elephant is not logical ['Walking Underwater' / MArk Tredinnick] / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth p46. Tales from Hustling ['Cannon Fire: A life in print' / Michael Cannon, memoir] / Joanna Leggatt p48. Tinker Tailor Soldier Scribe ['A Private Spy: The letters of John le Carre] / Michael Shmith p50. Looking for them ['The Mirror and the Palette' / Jennifer Higgie, art] / Julie Ewington p52. Stories as currency ['Destination Elswhere: Displaced persons and their quest to leave post Europe' / Ruth Balint, history] / Ebony Nilsson p53. Blazing a trail ['Bold Types: How Australia's first women journalists blazed a trial' / Patricia Clarke] / Bridget Griffen-Foley p54. Scots, warts and all ['Scotland: the global history - 1603 to the present' / Murray Pittock] / Gordon Pentland p56. Seductive Sydney ['Sydney: A biography' / Louis Nowra] / Gay Bilson p57. Turbulence, curvature and flux [Barbara Hepworth at Heide] / Sophie Knezic p62.


No.451 MARCH 2023: A revival meeting at the Espy [Labor's new National Cultural Policy] / Jennifer Mills p8. Reckoning with the truth [Indigenous sovereignty and Australian law, "Black Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in Australia" / Russell Marks] / David Kearns p10. On Anangu Country [a deeply storied place in Central Australia, "Unmasking Angas Downs: History and myth on a Central Australian pastoral station" / Shannyn Palmer] / Elenor Hogan p13. Contingent political hero [an insider's take on Volodymyr zelensky] / Nick Horden p13. House and garden [examining Menzies' early life and career, "The Young Menzies: Success, failure, resilience 1894 - 1942" / Zachary Gorman] / David Horner p16. Yearning for the centre [a judicious account of vanishing age, "Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life" / Brigitta Olubas] / Frances Wilson p18. The vein of betrayal [a deft memoir of infidelity, "Infidelity and Other Affairs" / Kate Legge] / Johanna Leggatt p21. An edgy affair [J.M. Coetzee's 'especial form of dissidence', "J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture" / Andrew Gibson] / Sue Kossew p22. No cause for optimism [shifting allegiances in Eleanor Dark's work, "Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's interwar fiction" / Melinda J. Cooper] / Susan Sheridan p24. The book that Bolton made [a legendary Canberra bibliophile, "A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press" / Michael Richards] / Brenda Niall p25. The power of narrative [the storification of reality, "Seduced by Story: The use and abuse of narrative" / Peter Brooks] / Killian Quigley p26. The wider web [a topical debut thriller, "Dark Mode" / Ashley Kalagian Blunt, murder] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p28. Fabulous happenings [Salman Rushdie asserts literature's freedoms, "Victory City" / Salman Rushdie] / Georgie Williamson p29. Mysteries and motivations ["Marshmellow" / Victoria Hannan, "Higher Education" / Kira McPherson, "Little Plum" / Laura McPhee-Browne] / Debra Adelaide p30. East-West collisions [a magnificent historical fresco, "Nights of Plaque" / Orhan Pamuk] / Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam p32. Human constellations [Paul Dalgarno's chatty ghost, "A Country of Eternal Light" / Paul Dalgarno] / Jennifer Mills p33. How magical can we be? [looking for God in the emergency room, "Tiny Uncertain Miracles" / Michelle Johnston] / Naama Grey-Smith p34. Jugulating torrens ["The Bell of the World" / Gregory Day] / Michael Winkle p35. A so-called 'critical revolution' ["Critical Revolutionaries: Five critics who changed the way we read" / Terry Eagleton] / Benjamin Madden p36. Foundations and landmarks [an ambitious look at Australian architecture, "Australian Architecture: A history" / Davina Jackson] / Philip Goad p37. Theatre of memory [Imants Tillers's appripriative art, "Credo" / Imants Tillers] / Sophie Knezic p39. Sharing stories [turtles as meat, symbol and material, "Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people" / Leah Lui-Chivizhe] / Ben Silvertein p42. Squares and rectangles [poetry, "Ragged Disclosures" / Paul Hetherington, "Dancing with Stephen Hawking" / John Foulcher, "Carapace" / Misbah Wolf] / Prithvi Varatharajan p45. The song is you [the never predictable Bob Dylan, "The Philosophy of Modern Song" / Bob Dylan] / Andrew Ford p47. A man without papers [the first English biography of Joseph Roth, "Endless Floght: The life of Joseph Roth" / Keiron Pim] / Joachim Redner p48. Money as public good [the politics of monetary thought, "The Currency of Politics" / Stefan Eich] / John Tang p50. Just another strategic sideshow [Syria's descent into carnage, "Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, war and the failure of international diplomacy" / Alex J. Bellamy] / Tom Bamforth p52. Swallowing up the weaker [politics by other means, "War: A genealogy of Western ideas and practices" / Beatrice Heuser] / Philip Dwyer p53. Wartime fates [a remarkable snapshot from Dunera, "Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok" / Jacquie Houlden and Seumas Spark] / Francesca Sasnaitis p55. Death by a thousand cuts [a new study of a tainted pontiff, "The Pope at War: The secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini and Hitler" / David I. Kertzer] / Miles Pattenden p56. Unearthing details [a major contribution to humanitarianism, "The Humanitarians: Child war refugees and Australian humanitarianism in a transnational world 1919-1975" / Joy Damousi] / Andrew Markus p58. The banality of meat [a book about suffering, "Abandon Every Hope" / Hayley Singer, mistreatment of animals] / Ben Brooker p59. Moral machines [why technology needs philosophy, "Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI" / Toby Walsh] / Dante Aloni p60. Fielding among potatoes [a ripping cricket year, "The Bodyline Fix: How women saved cricket" / Marion Stell] / Diane Stubbings p61. Maestro [Todd Field's magnificent new film] / Jordan Prosser p64. Heart and soul [the return of the Griffin production] / Diane Stubbings p65. Looking at something [the enigmatic art of Peter Tyndall] / Jarrod Zlatic p66.


No.453 APRIL 2023: Exorcising the ghosts: Australia's new, old foreign policy / James Curran p8. A press with purpose: the MUP story [MUP: A Centenary history / Stuart Kells] / Frank Bongiorno p20. The tyranny of sound: the world's addiction to background noise / Debi Hamilton p25. Risk and reward: biography as political intervention [Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers / Chris Wallace] / James Walter p27. Building a golem: the first biography of a Labor survivor [Tanya Plibersek: On her own terms / Margaret Simons] / Patrick Mullins p29. Flogs of war: a missed opportunity from The Conversation [possible conflict with China, 2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege / Michael Hopkin] / Joel Deane p31. A bon vivant's life: the long awaited biography [Drink Against Drunkenness: The life and times of Sasha Soldatow / Inez Baranay] / Susan Varga p34. 'Such sadism, such pain': three novels about historical masculinity [A Man of Honour / Simon Smith, The Death of John Lacey / Ben Hobson, The Investigators / Anthony Hill / Stephen Knight p38. Foodies and fame: Ronnie Scott's pandemic-inflected novel [Shirley / Ronnie Scott] / Morgan Nunan p40. Care as concept: a binding force revealed [Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia / Eve Vincent] / Shannon Burns p45. Escaping the barriers: debunking myths about women in science [Taking to the Field: A history of Australian women in science / Jane Carey] / Jessica Urwin p47. Andy comes to town [ Warhol exhibition in Adelaide] / Patrick Flannery p54. Beyond real estate [the role of architecture in cultural policy] / Cameron Logan p57. Despair, resolve. reflection [an anthemic tribute to William Cooper] / Graham Strahle p59. From the archives [Brian Castro] p60.

No.453 MAY 2023: Righteous rage [the Catholic Church's betrayal of children, Cardinal George Pell, "Still Standing" / Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy] / Barney Zwartz p17. 'In the weeds, in the game' [a searching history of Macquarie Bank, The Millionaires' Factory: The inside story of how Macquarie became a global giant / Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright] p18. Composition as calling ["Inner Song: A biography of Margaret Sutherland" / Julian Graham] p38. Poet of the Month with Dan Disney p49. Into the void [Frank Hurley, "Frank" / Jordie Albiston] / Anthony Lynch p50. Online polarisation [the danger of big tech, "Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it" / Jordan Guiao] / Joshua Krook p55. Gillard as everywoman [hagiography in secular form, Julia Gillard] / Clare Monagle p58. Hojotoho! Heiaha! [Melbourne Opera] / Peter Rose p59. Melbourne's beating heart [bling and variety at NGV] / Sophie Knezic p62.

No.454 JUNE 2023: Labor's year in clover - the challenges facing Peter Dutton / Mark Kenny p9. Who blinks first - Lachlan Murdoch V Crikey [defamation proceedings] / David Rolph p11. ABR's New Laureate [Professor Sheila Fitzptrick] p13. 'Every day a crisis': Morrison's ignominious second government [The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis 2019-2022 / Brendan McCaffrie, Michelle Grattan, Chris Wallace] / Patrick Mullins p14. Radiant promise: three lives cut short by the Great War [Life so Full of Promise: Further biographies of Australia's lost generation / Ross McMullin] / Raelene Frances p15. "And yet more fire': the bombing of Berlin [Dispatch from Berlin 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything / Anthony Cooper, Thorsten Perl] / Joan Beamont p17. Politics by other means: India addresses centuries of humiliation / John Zubrzycki p20. Intricacies of aliveness: a personal tribute to John Tranter 1943-2023 / Kate Lilley p24. No exit: nuanced reading of the modern family [Family: Stories of belonging / Alaina Gougoulis and Ian See] / Michael Winkler p26. Child adjacent [staying inside parenting illusion] / Bridget Vincent p27. The messenger: Jimmy Little's remarkable second act [Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta man / Frances Peters-Little] / Philip Morrissey p30. Just more unravelling: AI infiltrates ABR [The Terrible Event / David Cohen] / Alex Cothren p32. Paths forward" A well-researched historical debut [House of Longing / Tara Calaby] / Rose Lucas p33. The C-word" Covid as the elephant in the room [Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity / Raina MacIntyre] / Ben Brooker p45. Curve as cue: An absorbing multicultural story [Growing up Modern: Canberra's Round House and Alex Jelinek] / Sheridan Palmer p46. Challenging perceptions: exploring the darker sides of herbariums [The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the Herbarium / Prudence Gibson] / Danielle Clode p53. Bird noticers: A curious new book from Libby Robin [Australians with love of nature, What Birdo is That? A field guide to bird people / Libby Robin] / Peter Menkhorst] p54. 'Everything out there': Tony Tuckson at the Drill Hall [Australian art] / Saskia Beudel p56. Vale Barry Humphries: The great comedian's love affair with Weimar / Peter Tregear p60. "This will have been": Judith Lucy tackles Beckett's Winnie / Ronan McDonald p62.

No.455 JULY 2023: A referendum in trouble [race, rights and history talk in 1967 and 2023, proposal to change of Australian Constitution] / Bain Attwood p10. 'Nasty, brutish and banal' [the ploys of media moguls and politicians, "Media Monsters: The transformation of Australia's newspaper empires" / Sally Young] / Patrick Mullins p15. Self-inflicted wounds [a vindication of investigative journalism] / David Rolph p17. 'Damn the White Queen' ["The Queen Is Dead: The time has come for a recokning" / Stan Grant] / Malcolm Allbrook p26. 'A happy white men's club' [The Australian Labor's uneasy with immigration] / Ebony Nilsson p29. The fortunes [a triptych of intergenerational experience, "After the Rain" / Aisling Smith] / Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen] p40. The comfort of tragedies, "Where I Slept" / Libby Angel] / Jay Daniel Thompson p41. A poetic death sentence ["Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of Terra Nullius' / Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens] / Phillip Mead p44. An unlikely intervention [story of RAMSI, "Helpem Fren: Australia and the Region Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands" / Michael Wesley] / Cwridwen Spark p46. Striking parallels [books by Melbourne poets, "I Have Decided to Remain Vertical" / Gaylene Carbis, "The drama Student" / Autumn Royal] / Chris Arnold p50. A rescue operation [Queer history, "She and Her Pretty Friend" / Danielle Scrimshaw] / Susan Sheridan p55. Poisons and antidotes [staging a Chinese-Australian morality play] / Josh Stenberg p58.


No.457 SEPTEMBER 2023: The Great Australian Intemperance [thoughts on a time of unbottled rage] / Joel Deane p9. Stanner in reverse [a response to Clare Wright] / James Curran p13. The spectre [contemplating a second Trump presidency, "Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term" / Bruce Wolpe] / Emma Shortis p14. Yunupingu's song [Constitutions as acts of vision, not division] / Desmond Manderson p24. Close to the bone ["Madukka the River Serpent" / Julie Janson] / Debra Adelaide p28. Shipping sunshine [accelerating clean energy transformation, "Powering up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain" / Alan Finkel] / Julian V. McCarthy p37. The Melbourne Dictionary People [active service to the mother tonque, Edward Ellis Morris] / Sarah Ogilvie p40. The evolution of Huxleys ["An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family" / Alison Bashford] / Gary Werskey p42. Faberge egg [a glittering portrait of cosmetics empress, "Helena Rubenstein: An Australian years" / Angus Trumble] / Ian Britain p44. Eyes wide open [Gerald Murnane selects Lesbia Harford, "Selected Poems" / Lesbia Harford] / Rose Lucas p52. Form, sound, address [manoeuvres of language and form, "Acrobat Music: New and selected poems" / Jill Jones] / Cassandra Atherton p55. Glover COuntry ["John Glover: Patterdale farm and the revelation of the Australian landscape / Ron Radford] / Anne Gray p62. Doyenne of the unspoken [two plays from Caryl Churchill] / Diane Stubbings p65.


No.458 OCTOBER 2023: Ancient sovereignty shining through [a Voice to parliament, not a Voice in parliament] / Melissa Castan and Lynette Russell p9. The sovereign time of Country [living in the pulse and heartbeat of an infinite clock, Indigenous] / Alex Wright p12. Follow the ship [an unflinching contribution to frontier history, Indigenous, "Killing for Country: a gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars, a family story / David Marr] / Mark McKenna p14. What got us there [a skilful explanation of change, "Everything we need to know about the Voice" / Megan Davis and George Williams] / Bronwyn Fredericks p17. Draw closer [a road we can all travel, "The Welcome to Country Handbook: A Guide to Indigenous Australia / Marcia Langton] / Sandra R. Phillips p19. The Dreaming [a vessel to hold past, present and future, Indigenous, "Everywhen: Australia and the language of deep history" / Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy] / Leonie Stevens p20. Art and identity [conflicted times at the ABC, Indigenous, "Close to the Subject: Selected works" / Daniel Browning] / Philip Morrisey p22. Who's your mob? [an Indigenous Australian dictionary of biography] / Shino Konishi, Julie Andrews, Odette Best, Brenda L. Croft, Steve Kinnane, Greg Lehman, Uncle John Whop p24. 'You take um up my land for me' [an Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne] / Zoe Laidlaw p28. Mother and daughter [lived Aboriginal history, "Aunty Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman's love and determination" / Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins] / Julie Andrews p31. 'Treasure every word' [the linguistics of Australian Indigenous languages, "The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages" / Claire Bowern] / Thomas Poulton p32. Songlines in action [tracing five generations, Indigenous, "Reaching Through Time: Finding my family's stories" / Shauna Bostock] / Jacinta Walsh p34. Ripples of impact [two new books on the TIWI Islands, Indigenous, "Tiwi Story / Mavis Kerinaiua, Laura Rademaker, "The Old Songs are Always New" / Genevieve Campbell with Tiwi Elders] / John J. Bradley p35. The enigmatic Howitt [a troubling, intriguing colonial type,"Line of Blood: The truth of Alfred Howitt" / Craig Horne] / Jason M. Gibson p36. Cooperative economics [a new chapter for AIME, Indigenous, "Hoodie Economics: Changing our systems to value what matters" / Jack Manning Bancroft] / Declan Fry p38. Prop, stage, star [Ode to Country, Indigenous, "The Body Country" / Susie Anderson] / Bebe Blackhouse-Oliver p40. Siren song [Indigenous poetry collections, "She Is the Earth" / Ali Cobby Eckermenn, "More Than These Bones" / Bebe Backhouse] / Julie Janson p42. Tips and tricks [the same old reverence for journalism, "Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism" / Leigh Sales] / Patrick Mullins p44. Double daylight [the horrors of British atomic testing, "Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test in Australia and the legacy that remains" / Paul Grace] / Elizabeth Tynan p47. A time of transness [a new phase in trans literature, "A Real Piece of Work: A memoir in essays" / Erin Riley] / Yves Rees p49. Lay down the book [stories as containers of emotions, "Firelight" / John Morrisey] / Claire G. Coleman p52. Where to now? [Aboriginal culture, "Edenglassie" / Melissa Lucashenko] p53. Lucky Donald [Australia 'spellbound in boredom', "Donald Horne: A life in the lucky country" / Ryan Cropp] / Tom Wright p58. Capturing the mood [White Australia policy, "The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what can be done about it" / Graeme Tyrner] / Zora Simic p60. Of spies and lies [danger of deception, espionage, "The Eagle in the Mirror" / Jesse Fink, "My Mother the Spy" / Cindy Dobbin and Freda Marnie Nicholls] / Michael Sexton p61.

No.459 NOVEMBER 2023: The measure of things [Flanagan's looping book of questions, Question 7 / Richard Flanagan] / Catriona Menzes-Pike p9. The ancestors [an uncommonly good family history, "My Grandfather's Clock: Four centuries of British-Australian family" / Graeme Davidson] / Marilyn Lake p11. Like an anthem [Her Sunburn Country: The extraordinary literary life of Dorothea Mackellar / Deborah Fitzgerald] p17. Caught in the fork [Frank Moorhouse: A life / Catharine Lumby] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p19. Jolts and dislocation [The Conversion / Amanda Lohrey] / Felicity Plunkett p27. Another routine blast [Indigenous People and Mining: A global perspective / Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh] / Deanne Kemp p33. Critic of the Month with Diane Stubbings p37. The Morning Belongs to Us [story from social worker and writer] / Siobhan Kavanagh p38. Fischer's life [I Am Time: Life, politics and beyond / Peter Rees] / Joshua Black p44. A tale of two species [balancing new technology and ethical considerations] / Rashina Hoda p51. Bruces' story [Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The valour of Bruce Dowding / Peter Dowding and Ken Spillman] / Peter McPhee p53.

No.460 DECEMBER 2023: Voiceless in Australia [referendum] / Anne Twomey p9. Turning a blind eye [referendum - burden of history] / Bain Attwood p11. A maddening country [political shadow of John Howard] / Joel Deane p15. Constellations ["A King of Confession: The writer's private world" / Alex Miller] / Brenda Walker p18. Gawenda's journey [Jewish identity, "My Life as a Jew" / Michael Gawenda] / David Trigger. p19. The Gate [victory for the Taliban, "The Sparrows of Kabul" / Fred Smith] / Kevin Foster p20. Global polycrisis ["Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a new world, 1848-1849" / Christopher Clark] / Peter McPhee p22. Antipodean echoes [Kamahl/Kandiah Kamalesvaran AM, "Imperial Island: A history of empire in modern Britain" / Charlotte Lydia Riley] / Jon Piccini p23. Bad drunks and chuckleheads ["The Fall: The end of the Murdoch empire" / Michael Wolff] / Walter Marsh p24. Soul shifts [Richard Franagan's question7] / James Boyce p27. 'If the story has holes'[ play "Prima Facie" / Suzie Miller] / Diane Stubbings p38. Refusing silence ["Women and Children" / Tony Birch] / Naama Grey-Smith p42. A thousand strangers ["Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942" / James Mitchell] / Michael McKernan p53. Dosti and the diaspora ["Australia's Pivot to India" / Andrew Charlton] / John Zubrzycki p54.


No.461 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2024: The lives of the saints ["The Nature of Honour" / David McBride] / Kevin Foster p9. The Box ["An Unlikely Prisoner" / Sean Turnell, Myanmar] / Nick Hordern p11. Gaita on love ["Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings" / Raimond Gaita] / Frank Bongiorno p12. Interwined lives ["Bennelong & Phillip: A history unravelled" / Kate Fullagar, Aboriginal people] / Emma Dortins p14. Far from over ["Life as we Knew it" The extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic" / Aisha Dow and Malissa Cunningham] / Ben Brooker p18. Fasten your seatbelts ["Alan Joyce and Qantas: The trials and transformation of an Australian icon" / Peter Harbison with Derek Sadubin] / Stuart Kells p19. 'Human, erring, condonable' ["James Joyce" / Gabrielle Carey] / Ronan McDonald p21. The lives of 'ordinary' people [from Siberia and Shanghai to King Cross / Ebony Nilsson p26. Labour of love ["Paul and Paula: A story of separation, survival and belonging" / Tim McNamara] / Seuman Spark p36. Share-house mould ["Paradise Estate" / Max Easton] / Morgan Nunan p38. 'Long-ago man' ["Days of Innocence and Wonder" / Lucy Treloar] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p41. Speak louder ["Burn" / Melanie Saward, "We didn't Think it Through" / Gary Lonesborough, "Borderland" / Graham Akhurst], Indigenous] / Julie Janson p43. Drambuies of poetry ["Near the Border" New and selected poems" / Andrew Sant] / Geoff Page p47. Lacerated feelings ["Courting: An intimate history of love and the law" / Alecia Simmonds] / Zoe Smith p51. Breaking loose ["Full Coverage: A history of rock journalist in Australia" / Samuel J. Fell] / Des Cowley p52. Warts and all [new forms of political interference in official histories] / Peter Edwards p54. Arts highlights of 2023 p58. Backstage with Cameron Lukey [Australian producer] p62. An uncertain relocation [Andrew Upton Australianises Chechov's classic] / Clare Monagle p63.


No.462 MARCH 2024: Cult of the archaic [the swindle of fascist fulfilment in Australia, "Late Fascism: Race, capitalism and politics of crisis" / Alberto Toscano] / Ben Gook p11. Sorry tales ["The Penitent State: Exposure, mourning, and the biopolitics of national healing" / Paul Muldoon, Stolen Generation] / Stephanie Collins p14. The spectre [the legacy and frailties of Robert Menzies, "The Menzies Watershed" / Zachary Gorman] / Patrick Mullins p15. The vanished woman [reversing the silencing about women and war, "Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australian women's war fictions" / Donna Coats] / Sue Kissew p30. Transfiguring the world ["The Great Undoing" / Sharlene Allsopp, Indigenous experience] / James Bradley p39. Tree as witnesses [a red gum tree in St Kilda, "What the Trees See: A wander through millennia history in Australia" / Dave Witty] / Ashley Hay p51. Straddling cultures ["Slipstream: On memory and migration" / Catherine Cole] / Susan Sheridan p56.


No.463 APRIL 2024: "When I am famous" ["Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths" / Matthew Lamb] / Sascha Morrell p9. "Thin labourism" [how is Albanese government travelling] / Frank Bongiorno p14. We live here ["No Church in the Wild" / Murray Middleton] / Morgan Nunan p30. Across time ["Always Will be" / Mykaela Saunders] / Claire G. Coleman p33. Thirteen scandals ["Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia's biggest business scandals" / Quentin Beresford] / Stuart Kells p38. JFK's war ["Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK" / Brett Mason] / Nock Horden p41. When we talk about Middle Ages [revisiting the power of periodisation] / G. Geltner p42. Sistergirl, Brotherboy ["Transgender Australia: A history since 1910" / Noah Riseman] / Jack Nicholls p50.