No. 391 MAY 2017:
Into the labyrinth: the searching, anguished style of Helen Garner / Jan McGuinness p13.
On the receiving end: Australia as a global citizen [ Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942 by Allan Gungell] / Frank Bongiorno p17.
IMAs and UMAs and SAMs: a powerful anthology about asylum seekers [They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention by Michael Green] / Madeline Gleeson p18.
Derring-do [Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry by James Boyce] / Michael Winkler p20.
Big-league little lives: the role of Pauline Hanson in Australian politics [David Marr's Quarterly Essay on Pauline Hanson] / Lucy Grainger-Brown p21.
Living portal [Wooloomooloo: A biography by Louise Nowra] / Nicole Adabee p27.
Now and then [A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay] / Tessa Lunmey p34.
Richard Flanagan's Narrow Road to the Deep North / Kerryn Goldsworthy p35.
Indigenous exclusion: changing the settler-state from within [The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, law and the settle state by Miranda Johnson] / Kevin Bell p42.
Seeing Garbo [And Then I Found Me by Noel Tovey] / Dennis Altman p45.
The irreplaceable: a tribute to John Clarke (1948-2017) / Morag Fraser p52.
Art and life [The Legacies of Bernard Smith edited by Jaynie Anderson] / Andrew Fuhrmann p53.
Into the desert [Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil by Andrew McMillan] / Gareth Hipwell p54.

No. 392 JUNE 2017:
Sacred and profane [The fiction of Tim Winton: earthed and sacred by Lun McCredden] / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth p23.
No refuge [no more boats by Felicity Castagna] / Donata Carrazza p36.
'A city of wheat': literary witnesses of the wheatbelt [like nothing on this earth: a literary history of the wheatbelt by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth] / Delys Bird p38.
Publisher of the month with Henry Rosenbloom p49.
Catholic actions: examining the Split [of labour and liberty: distributism in Victoria 1891-1966 by Rae Mathews] p50.
Signalers [code breakers: inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchly Parks by Craig Collie] / Simon Casterson p55.
Whitely [movie about Brett Whitely directed by James Bogle] / Barnarby Smith p58.
Van Gogh and the seasons [NGV exhibition] / Peter Hill p59.
Three little words [Joanna Murray-Smith's play] / Andrew Fuhrmann p65.
Minnie and Liraz [Lally Katzs' play] / Carol Middleton p71.
Critic of the month with Morag Fraser p72.


No. 393 AUGUST 2017:
Mapping history [Hidden in plain view: the aboriginal people of coastal Sydney by Paul Irish] / Alan Atkinson p13.
'Give it a go': the many faces of a public intellectual [Donald Horne: selected writings] / Ryan Cropp p14.
'Quotidian lives': intimate histories of fifty Australians [Australian lives: an intimate history by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thompson] / Agnes Nieuwenhuizen p16.
Mr history: the prolific Geoffrey Bolton [a historian for all seasons: essays for Geoffrey Bolton] / Wilfrid Press p18.
The leaching layer [Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / Dominic Amerena p27.
Park/plaque [taboo by Kim Scott] / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth p35.
Safe harbour [on the Java ridge by Jock Serong] / Miriam Cosic p36.
Butter [ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / Lauren Aimee Curtis p39.
Pheidippides [ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / Eliza Robertson p44.
To speak of sorrow [Calibre Essay Prize] / Darius Sepehri p53.
Publisher of the month with Louise Adler p65.

No. 394 SEPTEMBER 2017:
The forgotten leader: rediscovering Alfred Deakin [The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett] / John Rickard p8.
Nullabri [The Choke by Sofie Laguna] / James Ley p12.
Connections [Common People by Tony Birch] / Fiona Wright p14.
Showtime [The Show: Another side of the Santamaria's movement by Mark Aarons and John Grenville] / Lyndon Megarrity p17.
Beyond songlines [thirtieth anniversary of Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines] / Philip Jones p21.
Myths and lies [The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion by Nick Brodie] / Billy Griffiths p32.
Shifting sand [Reboot: A democracy makeover to empower Australia's voters by Richard Walsh] / Shaun Crowe p33.
Not quite the book he wanted: portrait of a colonising and ruthless father [A Fuhrer For A Father: The domestic face of colonialism by Jim Davidson] / Brian Matthews p34.
A missing fraction: loneliness and disenchantment [The Town by Shaun Prescott] / Shannon Burns p36.
The A-plus team [Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a new window on the universe by Peter Robinson] / Robyn Williams p43.
War stories [The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from The Veldt to Vietnam edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor] / Seumas Spark p48.
Justice [Jewish ANZACS: Jews in the Australian military by Mark Dapin] / Elisabeth Holdsworth p49.
Ink [the play Ink about Rupert Murdoch by James Graham] / Jane Sullivan p64.
Publisher of the month with Richard Walsh p68.

No. 395 OCTOBER:
Pell's trajectory: Australia's most polarising religious leader [Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan] / Barney Zwartz p16.
Pastures where there was red dust: caustic playfullness in Michele de Kretser's new novel [The Life To Come by Michele de Kretser] / Beejay Silcox p18.
Drought diaries: drought as a cultural concept [Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones] / Deb Anderson p24.
ABR: yes for equality p25.
Adani and the Gailee Basin / Susan Reid p29.
Photo essay: among trees / Philip Jones p33.
Get out of the bloody way: the case for less destructive farming practices [Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture-a new earth by Charles Massy] / Tim Flannery p44.
From HANZAB to ABG: a hefty addition to the list of bird guides [The Australian Bird Guide by Peter Menkhorst et al] / Richard Noske p49.
Ambassadors from another time [ABR Eucalypt fellowship essay] / Stephen Orr p52.
World of texts [Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools since 1945 edited by Tim Doolin, Joanne Jones and Patricia Dowsett] / Ilana Synder p62.
Namatjira Project / Barnaby Smith p67.
Open page with Josephine Wilson p72.

No. 396 NOVEMBER 2017:
Testimonials: from solo flyer to high politics [Incorrigible Optimist: A political memoir by Gareth Evans] / James Walter p13.
Abject failure: Australia's response to refugees [Asylum By Boat: Origins of Australia's refugee policy by Claire Higgins] / Klaus Neumann p18.
Threads and templates: disparate essays on Gough Whitlam [Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam government's 21st century agenda edited by Jenny Hocking] / Stephen Mills p19.
Inverting Faust: Alex Miller's autobiographical new novel [The Passage of Love by Alex Miller] / Geordie Williamson p23.
Trick mirror: Peter Carey's iconoclastic new novel [A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey] / Paul Giles p26.
Face-off [First Person by Richard Flanagan] / James Ley p27.
That hit, that buzz: Brett Whiteley's emulators in the dock [Whiteley on Trial by Gabriella Coslovich] / Johanna Leggatt p34.
Arts highlights of the year p38.
Holden hoff [Rayner Hoff: the life of a sculptor by Deborah Beck] / Christopher Menz p46.
Grand dilemma [The Poinsoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Amy Watson] / Andrew Montana p47.
If this is a Jew: progressive Judaism around the world / Elizabeth Holdsworth p49.
Verbal play [Thea Astley: selected poems edited by Cheryl Taylor] / Susan Sheridan p59.
The gap [Watching Out: Reflections on justice and injustice by Julian Burnside] / John Eldridge p61.
Fred Williams in the You Yangs / Irena Zdanowicz p64.
Our country / Sally Grant p65. Open page with Roger McDonald p72.

No. 397 DECEMBER 2017:
Victory for marriage equality / Peter Rose p9.
Tracing Pauline: two new books on One Nation [Please Explain: The rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson by Anna Broinowksi and Rogue Nation: Dispatches from Australia's populist uprisings and outsider politics] / Shaun Crowe p11.
Mr King [The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never meant to know about November 1975 by Jenny Hocking] / Frank Bongiorno p13.
The making of a man [Wednesdays With Bob by Bob Hawke and Derek Rielly] / Richard Walsh p14.
When sport and politics collide / Kieran Pender p19.
Books of the year p30.
Aggie's shell [Can You Hear the Sea? My grandmother's story by Brenda Niall] / Susan Wyndham p38.
Bimbimpap [The Book of Thistles by Noelle Janaczewska] / Ceridwen Spark p39.
My country, good country: the colonial experience from the Djadja Wurrung's perspective [The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the protectors by Bain Attwood] / Amanda Nettleneck p43.
Picnic at Hanging Rock fifty years on / Marguerite Johnson p49.
Temenos [The Best Australian Poems 2017] / Gregory Day p58.
Unfathomably larger [Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman] / Catherine Noske p60.
Game of love [The Death and Life of Australian Soccer by Joe Gorman] / Ryan Cropp p64.
The art of collecting [Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana Fund by Jennifer Sanders] / John Rickard p71.
A win for Namatjira / Colin Golvan p72.

No.398 JANUARY 2018:
He was the story: a polyphonic portrait of a mercurial activist [Tracker: stories of Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis Wright] / Michael Winkler p8.
A long way downhill: postwar leadership in Australia [The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and political leadership 1949-2016 by Paul Strangio] / Frank Bongiorno p12.
Infamy! They've got it in for me: Chris Masters cracks the ADF's hostility to the media [No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters]
A half-open door: a study of David Malouf's early work [David Malouf and his poetic: his earlier writings by Yvonne Smith] / David McCooey p16.
Lady Luck [Memoirs by Mike Willesee] / Richard Walsh p20.
Lost child [The Best Australia Stories 2017 edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke] / Rachel Robertson p28.
La Trobe's legacy: a sympathetic biography of Victoria's first governor [ La Trobe: traveller, writer, governor by John Barnes] / John Arnold p34.
Balts and DPs [Beautiful Balts: from displaced persons to new Australians by Jayne Persian] / Francesca Sasnaitis p46.
Poetry in Queensland / Felicity Plunkett p47.
Palimpsest [Mirror Sydney by Vanessa Berry] / Lucas Thompson p50.
Grenades [Dissent: the student press in 1960s Australia by Sally Percival Wood] / Blanche Clark p53.
Lessons [No end of lesson: Australia's unified national system of higher education by Stuart Macintyre] / Paul Giles p54.
I shuffle in and go whang: capturing the nature of cricket / Bernard Whimpress p56.
At the NGV [Del Kathryn Barton: the highway is a disco, Gareth Sansom: transformer, Helen Maudsley] / Sophie Knezic p62.
Muriel's Wedding: the musical / Susan Lever p63.
Thin ice [The Best Film I Never Made: and other stories about a life in the arts by Bruce Beresford] / Desley Deacon p65.
Open page with Chris Masters p68.

No.399 MARCH 2018:
A single field of life: a revisionist history of Aboriginal Australia [Indigenous and other Australians since 1901 by Tim Rowse] / Philip Jones p18.
Asia without America: China's growing influence in the region [Without America: Australia in the New Asia. Quarterly Essay 68 by Hugh White] / David Brophy p19.
Timely science [The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 edited by Michael Slezak] / Rachel Mead p23.
New Worlds: a varied collection of Australian essays [The Best Australian Essays 2017 edited by Anna Goldsworthy] / Lucas Thompson p24.
Peter Porter Poetry Prize: shortlisted poems p30.
Jaxie's journey: expiation in the desert [The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton] / Brenda Niall p34.
Reflections [Mrs M: An Imagined History by Luke Slattery] / Gillian Dooley p36.
God and Caesar in Australia: the close nexus between government and Catholicism / Paul Collins p40.
Transformations [The Drover's Wife edited by Frank Moorhouse] / Paul Genoni p52.
Sweet Country / Harry Windsor p62.

No.400 APRIL 2018:
Music to Xi Jinping's ears: exaggerating the Chinese menace in Australia [Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton] / David Brophy p11.
Defying the moment [defining the ideas of the moment, i.e #MeToo] / Beejay Silcox p14.
Rudd's rumination: the various selves of Kevin Rudd [Not For The Faint-Hearted: A personal reflection on life, politics and purpose by Kevin Rudd] / Neal Blewett p20.
From Lyons to Whitlam [Three Duties and Talleyrands's Dictum: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat by Alan Frewster] / Geoffrey Blainey

No.401 MAY 2018:
The legend of the Bible: how the Bible has shaped Australia [The Bible in Australia: a cultural history by Meredith Lake] / Alan Atkinson p8.
The paradox of recognition: the cultural politics of claiming native title [Against Native Title: conflict and creativity in outback Australia by Eve Vincent and Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea by Katie Glaskin] / Richard Martin p18.
It's time [This Time: Australia's republican past and future by Benjamin T. Jones] / Billy Griffiths p21.
Once again: outside in the House of Art [Calibre Essay Prize] / Kristen Tranter p28.
No schmaltz no spin [A Sand Archive by Gregory Day] / Gilliam Dooley p34.
Kaleidoscope [Flames by Robbie Arnott] / Amy Baillieu p37.
Police life [The People's Force: A history of Victoria Police by Robert Haldane] / John Arnold p50.
Conjuring [Bromwyn Oliver: Strange things by Hannah Fink] / Brigitta Olubas p51.
Poet of the month with Pam Brown p54.
Open page with Justine Ettler p64.

No.402 JUNE/JULY 2018:
A law unto themselves: redressing wealth inequality [Competing Claims and Australia's Economic Future by Stephen Bell and Michael Keating] / Richard Walsh p14.
Wider resonances: a wide-angled approach to Australian arts [Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century by Margaret Plant] / Paul Giles p16.
Collapse [The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo] / Carol Middleton p24.
Witch-hunt or a great awakening: tensions surrounding the #MeToo movement / Felicity Chaplin p28.
The drama of it: television comedy's new aesthetic / James McNamara p34.
Hidden history [Beyond the silver screen: a history of women, film-making and film culture in Australia 1920-1990 by Mary Tomsic] / Suzy Freeman-Greene p44.
Survey: my favourite film [Gail Jones, Dion Kagan, Lauren Carroll Harris, Alice Addison, Anwen Crawford, Emile Sherman, Phillipa Hawker, Stephen Romei, Desley Deacon, Kyle du Fresne, Felicity Chaplin, Brian McFarlane, James McNamara, Jake Wilson, Craig Pearce, Nick Prescott, Peter Rose] p47.
Questions [waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild] / Johanna Leggatt p54.
Poet of the month with Phillip Mead p58. Breathe [review] / Brian McFarlane p60.
Still point turning: the Catherine McGregor story / Ian Dickson p63.
Bliss [review] / Fiona Gruber p65.
Critic of the month with Brenda Niall p68.