No.408 JANUARY 2019: Slippery terms: a narrow look at liberalism in Australia [The Land of Dreams: How Australians won their freedom by David Kemp] / Alan Atkinson p13. A complicated life: the first serious biography of Billy McMahon [Tiberius with a telephone: the life and stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins] / James Walter p16. Family Secret [The Valley by Steve Hawke] / Helena Kadmos p32. Publishers picks [Nathan Hollier (Deep Time Dreaming), Nikki Christer (Trauma Cleaner), Terri-ann White (Blakwork), Alice Grundy (Beautiful Revolutionary), Michael Heyward (Deep Time Dreaming), Phillipa McGuinness (On Disruption), Sam Coomey (The Lebs), Catherine Milne (The Bookshop of the Brokenhearted), Aviva Tuffield (Blakwork), Meredith Curnow (Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia), Barry Scott (Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flat and the West Melbourne Swamp), David Musgrave (I Love Poetry), Mathilda Imlah (In The Garden of the Fugitive)] p36. History from above: a top down study of the first two Howard Governments [Back From The Brink, 1997-2001: The Howard Government Volume II edited by Tom Frame] / Lyndon Megarrity p46. Resemblances and opposites: a welcome collection of critical essays [Feeding the Ghost 1: Criticism on contemporary Australian poetry edited by Andy Kissane] / John Hawke p48. Jim Carroll's Ass / Alice Notley p49. Unsettlement [White on White by Anne Elvey and The Sky Runs Through Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp] / Amy Lin p50. Open page with Geoffrey Lehmann p52. David Goldblatt: photographs 1948-2018 / Alison Stieven-Taylor p54. Lean on Pete / Anwen Crawford p56. Bottomless / Maxim Boon p57. Rewriting Australian art history: five decades of major local exhibitions [Australian Art Exhibitions: opening our eyes by Joanna Mendelssohn] / Ron Radford p60. From the ABR archive [White Earth by Andrew McGahan] p64.

No.409 MARCH 2019: All their sins and sorrows: a history of the Irish in Australia without the craic [A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall] / Michael McGirr p11. Taking a stand: an overview of complex issues [The Tyranny of Opinions: Conformity and the future of liberalism by Russell Blackford] / Ceridwen Spark p14. The philosophy of a billionaire: a second look at the businessman turned politician [Born to Rule? by Paddy Manning] / Paul Williams p16. Well, there are other publishing companies: on MUP and the resilience of non-fiction publishing / Dominic Kelly p19. One little piece of earth: dissecting Australia's housing crisis [No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia's housing crisis by Peter Mares] / Tom Bamforth p22. Father man [Exploded view by Carrie Tiffany] / James Ley p25. Loops and folds [The Year of the Beast by Steve Carroll] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p27. The making of Len: the rollicking world of Leonard French [The Boy From Brunswick: Leonard French, a biography by Reg Macdonald] / Sheridan Palmer p32. Peter Porter Poetry Prize: the shortlisted poems [Dancing With Steven Hawking by John Foulcher, The Mirror Hurlers by Ross Gillett, 63 Temple Street Mong Kok by Belle Ling, Searching the Dead by Andy Kissane, Raven by Mark Tredinnick] p39. Conquering time's atrocities: an abundant final collection from Judith Rodriguez [The Feather Boy & Other Poems by Judith Rodriguez] / Jennifer Strauss p44. Turf [Green Shadows and other poems by Gerald Murnane] / Geoff Page p46. Dark noise [Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout by Ginger Gorman] / Jacinta Mulders p53. Open page with Debra Adelaide p60.

No.410 APRIL 2019: Pioneering photography: images from the Australian Museum [Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 by Vanessa Finney] / Philip Jones p13. Another country: the first single volume history of South Australia in fifty years [History of South Australia by Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p16. Not. At. All. A grenade of a book in a lolly wrapper [Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn] / Suzy Freeman-Greene p20. Public intimacies: when the personal became political in 1970s Australia [The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia by Michelle Arrow] / Zora Simic p21. Apotheosis of the right: two takes on Australia's political terrain [Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The hard right in Australia by Dominic Kelly and Rise of the Right: The war on Australia's liberal vaules by Greg Barns] / Andrew Browrtjes p33. Back to earth: the original version of Gerald Murnane's second novel [A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane] / Paul Giles p36. Bete noire [Islands by Peggy Frew] / Bronwyn Lea p38. The common lot [Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith] / Francesca Sasnaitis p39. Stresses [The War Artist by Simon Cleary] / Robin Gerster p41. Elegy and warning [The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson] / Jane Rawson p43. A couple of radicals: Rescuing the Blackburns from other people's footnotes [The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambition by Carolyn Rasmussen] / Jacqueline Kent p45. Middle way: on the nation-shaping importance of elections [Elections Matter: Ten federal elections that shaped Australia by Benjamin T. Jones] / Lyndon Megarrity p47. Nature's lap, nature's book: the Weindorfers on Cradle Mountain [Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story by Kate Legge] / Jared Hore p50. Publisher of the month with Meredith Curnow p60. Arbus & West / Fiona Gruber p62. Two feet / Lee Christofis p63. A View From the Bridge / Maxim Boon p66. Salome / Michael Halliwell p67.

No.411 MAY 2019: The sound of nothing at all: feeling essays about the tribulations of trees [City of Trees: Essays on life, death and the need for a forest by Sophie Cunningham] / Johanna Leggatt p9. A paen to the franchise: reflections on Australian democracy and society [From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting by Judith Brett] / Frank Bongiorno p11. Tinted by my face, cruciated by my hyphen [On David Malouf by Nam Le] / Peter Rose p12. Why do politicians find tax justice so hrd? / Daniel Halliday p17. Myths of war: preconceptions about a misguided conflict [Australia's Vietnam: Myth vs history by Mark Dapin] / Michael Sexton p20. A dance with failure: the intellectualism and viscerality of Alison Croggon [Remembered Presences: responses to theatre by Alison Croggon] / Ben Brooker p21. This is the way the world end: the disquieting lure of dystopian novels / Beejay Silcox p26. Mirage [Simpson Returns: A novella by Wayne Macauley] / Alex Cothren p31. At the gorge" twists and tropes in four new crime novels [River of Sale, Comeback, Under the Midnight Sky] / Chris Flyn p34. Traces [Room For A Stranger by Melanie Chung] / Alice Neeson p36. On oxytocin [Into The Fire by Sonia Orchard] / Keyvan Allahyari p37. Lightness [Gravity Is The Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty] / Naama Grey-Smith p38. A revolutionary wife: colonial bell meets principled wreck [An Unconventional Wife: The life of Julia Sorell Arnold by Mary Hoban] / Jim Davidson p40. Millions more [Breaking Point: The future of Australian cities by Peter Seamer] / Tom Bamford p50. Poet of the month with Emma Lew p53. Catalyst: the case of the disappearing night parrot [Night Parrot: Australia's most elusive bird by Penny Olsen] / Neil Murray p58. Open page with Judith Brett p60. Mosquitoes / Ian Dickson p62. Maori markings: Ta Moko / David Hansen p63. MSO Gala / Elizabeth Kertesz p65. West Side Story / Peter Tregear p66. Burning / Richard Leathem p67.

No.412 JUNE 2019: Unsettling settlement: mental disability in early New South Wales [Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk] / Alan Atkinson p13. Speaking of electricity [Blackout: How is energy-rich Australia running out of electricity by Matthew Warren] / Kate Griffiths p15. Fire flume [Black Saturday: not the end of the story / Peg Fraser] / Daniel May p16. Don't be afraid... it won't hurt you: the cost of cutting environmental corners [Hazelwood by Tom Doig] / Alistair Thomson p17. Floundering [calibre essay prize] / Sarah Walker p20. Open page with Chris Womersley p24. Truth and fiction [Fled by Meg Keneally] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p32. Metal language [story] / Beejay Silcox p34. Publisher of the month with Sam Cooney p40. A movement, a moment, a reckoning: an essential compilation about #MeToo [#MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement edited by Natalie Kon-yu] / Zora Simic p41. A mutinous and ferocious grace: Nick Cave and trauma's aftermath / Felicity Plunkett p44. Meet the Fokker: the tempests and evasions of Charles Kingsford Smith [King of the Air: The turbulent life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey] / Michael McGirr p49. Considering the company I keep: a lucky and resilient prime minister [Robert Menzies: the arts of politics by Troy Bramston] / Michael Sexton p50. No one even said bum: a study of seven originals [Seven Big Australians: Adventures with comic actors by Anne Pender] / Desley Deacon p59. Little Woods / Anwen Crawford p62. White Pearl / Alexander Douglas Thom p63. All is True / Johanna Leggatt p65. Cosi / Maxim Boon p66. Braving Glyndebourne / Robyn Archer p67. The golden age on St Kilda Road / Patrick McCaughey p68.

No.413 AUGUST 2019: Living in the indigenous space / Lynette Russell p5. The ball and chair of minority: rebelling against the banality of colony [On identity by Stan Grant and Australia Day by Stan Grant] / Bruce Pascoe p10. So much at stake: forging a treaty with authority and respect / Sarah Maddison and Dale Wandin p13. The value of a chance: generational trauma in Indigenous communities [A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow case by Anontio Buti and My Longest Round by Wally Carr and Gaele Sobott] / Michael Winkler p16. Gogobera [Australia's Original Languages: An introduction by RMW Dixon] / Bruce Moore p20. Eliminating settler colonialism: Refusal and resurgence in Australia [The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison] / Richard J. Martin p22. Victors and vanquished: competing narratives about the 2018 spill [Plots And Players: Malcom Turnbull's demise and Scott Morrison's ascension by Niki Savva] / Paul Williams p25. Open page with Bruce Pascoe p27. Walgajunmanha all time / Charmaine Papertalk Green p28. Nah Doongh's Song / Grace Karskens p31. Publisher of the month with Rachel Bin Salleh p39. A logic of elimination: the difference and commonalities of Indigenous voices [Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss] / David Haworth p41. Behrouz Boochani and the politics of naming / Omid Tofighian p44. Foundational fiction: Roger McDonald's contribution to historical fiction [Post colonial heritage and settler well-being: The historical fictions of Roger McDonald by Christopher Lee] / Robin Gerster p45. A piece of scrub like Deane: Tony Birch's resonant new novel [The White Girl by Tony Birch] / Sandra R. Phillips p50. Returning [The Yield by Tara June Winch] / Ellen van Neerven p51. Soft centre [Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy] / Chris Flynn p53. A night at the opera / Deborah Cheetha, p62. Wake in Fright / Tim Byrne p65. The Torrents / Sue Lever p66. Whiteley / Michael Halliwell p68. Anna Bolena / Peter Rose p70.

No.414 SEPTEMBER 2019: Mosaics of tiny facts: early signs of a contrarian historian [Before I Forget: An early memoir by Geoffrey Blainey] / Brenda Niall p12. Things that never were: contradictions in the 2019 federal election / Dennis Altman p18. Alone with a big stick: Hugh White's middle-power dreaming [How To Defend Australia by Hugh White] / Chengxin Pan p21. Open page with Helen Garner p24. Nomads and timid souls: two new short story collections [Here Until August: stories by Josephine Rowe, This Taste For Silence: Stories by Amanda O'Callaghan] / Bronwyn Lee p26. The Wheel [The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan] / James Bradley p29. Frontiers [The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman] / Alison Whittaker p30. Controlled hallucinations [The Returns by Philip Salon] / Brenda Walker p31. The point-blank murder / Sonja Cechian p32. Out of sight, out of mind [From Here On, Monsters by Elizabeth Bryer] / James Halford p39. A sense of belonging [Shepherd by Catherine Jinks] / David Whish-Wilson p40. Miracle windows / Raaza Jamshed p41. Panol [The Pillars by Peter Polites] / Crusader Hillis p46. Rubble boy / Morgan Nunan p48. Night flight / Sarah Holland-Batt p53. What if? [Jean Blackburn: education, feminism and social justice by Criag Campbell and Debra Hayes] / Ilana Snyder p60. Advantages of stopovers / Michael Farrell p63. Golden Shield / Tim Byrne p66. My Dearworthy Darling / Tali Lavi p67. A Room of One's Own / Lisa Gorton p69. Palm Beach / Jake Wilson p70. Becoming Electra / Jane Montgomery Griffiths p71.

No.415 OCTOBER 2019: Looking the other way every day: the radicalisation of young people because of the climate threat / Tim Glannery p10. Scar tissue: searching for Retribution Camp / Billy Griffiths p14. 'hot little asbestos boxes': diseased lungs and bitter memories [Asbestos In Australia: From boom to dust by Lenore Layman and Gail Phillips] / Graeme Davison p17. The twin of lustre: unholy dislodgements of soil [Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's goldfields by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davis] / Alexandra Roginski p18. Defeat devices: exploring the history of water [Murray Darling water management] / Timothy Neale p21. On our land [Project Rainfall: the secret history of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling] / Alison Broinowski p23. The night parrot: it's a whitefella thing / Kim Mahood p24. The creep of climate change: examining windfarms and the resistance [Wind Turbine Syndrome: A communicated disease by Simon Chapman] / James Dunk p27. The great irruption: the rat as a key figure in Australian history [The Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A rodent history of Australia by Tim Bonyhandy] / Libby Robin p28. An evergreen canopy: the alluring and resilient eucalypt / Bianca Le p30. Nature's ancient history / Julia Kindt p33. Australian dreaming / Kim Scott p36. Open page with Trent Dalton p44. Favourite Australian novels of the twenty-first century p48. Explosions and digressions [Bruny by Heather Rose] / Nicole Abadee p51. Shared rights: the neoliberal assault on the common good [The Politics of the Common Good: dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall] / Judith Brett p58. Gun talk [Gun control: what Australia got right (and wrong) by Tom Frame] / Kieran Pender p60. Don the divider: an elegant biography of the maverick politician [Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott] / Christina Slade p62. Hons and Revs: the need for community and connection [A Lot With A Little / Tim Costello] / Jacqueline Kent p63. Poet of the month with Lisa Gorton p66. Titus Andronicus / Susan Lever p68 Halston / Felicity Chaplin p69. Australian Realness / Sarah Walker p70. Dogman / Jack Callil p71. From the ABR archive [True History of the Kelly Gang] p72.

No.416 NOVEMBER 2019: Hot water: the erosion of democratic accountability / Kieran Pender p8. Artist, nomad, epistler: Ian Fairweather as an avid sponge [Ian Fairweather: A life in letters by Claire Roberts] / Morag Fraser p13. Reminiscence over analysis: a periphrastic history of a gallerist [Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and thirty-five years of contemporary Australian Art by Doug Hall] / Sophie Knezic p15. Rustling in the breeze: the glamour and vainglory of Susan Sontag [Sontag: Her life by Benjamin Moser] / Paul Kildea p17. A lyric future: enabling the Sydney Opera House to fulfill its potential / Lyndon Terracini p22. The third force: internecine war in the Greens [Inside the Greens: the origins and future of the party, they people and the politics] / James Walter p23. The money power: perfidy and greed in Australia's financial sector / Ben Huf p26. The salted earth: an eclectic and engaging collection of writings [Salt: Selected stories and essay by Bruce Pascoe] / Steve Kinnane p29. Dreams and beasts: Charlotte Wood's shell-like new novel [The Weekend by Charlotte Wood] / Felicity Plunkett p32. The forgotten and the invisible [There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett] / Anna MacDonald p37. Tree change [Field of Poppies by Carmel Bird] / Gregory Day p38. Remnant ash [A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop] / Debra Adelaide p40. Struggle with grace notes: an Australian composer becomes American [Peggy Glanville Hicks: Composer and critic by Suzanne Robinson] / Jim Davidson p42. Living art [Mirka Mora: a life making art by Sabine Cotte] / Carol MIddleton p45. One last gumtree [Sidney J. Baker and Australian slang lexicography] / Amanda Laugesen p46. Injustice [Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town by Steven Schubert about Zak Grieve's conviction of the murder of Ray Niceforo] / Russell Marks p51. Publisher of the month with Madonna Duffy p58. Arts highlights of the year [Robyn Archer: Zizanie, The Shadows Whose Prey The Hunter Becomes, I Sense You But I Cannot See You, Wozzeck, That Which We Do Not Remember, Guided Tour of the Exhibition: For Soprano with handbag. Felicity Chapman: La Promesse de l'aube, The Sisters Brothers, Mystify, The Nightingale. Tim Byrne: The View From The Bridge, Anthem, Underground Railroad Game. Gabriella Coslovitch: Eumerella, a war requiem for peace, Tense Past, Missing or Dead. Humphrey Bower: Counting and Cracking, 5 Short Blasts, The Lion Never Sleeps, Biladurang, Daddy, See You Next Tuesday. Michael Shmith: Parsifal, Buhnenweihfestpiel, Jonny Spielt Auf, Persephone, Le Sacre du Primtemps. Des Cowley: The Plains. Susan Lever: City of Gold, Whiteley, Oscar and Lucinda. Peter Rose: Peter Grimes, Cosi Fan Tutte, Escaped Alone. Alison Stieven-Taylor: David Goldblatt: photographs 1948-2018, Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A retrospective, Remain, Gods of Suburbia, Like Last Year's Snow, Civilisation: The way we live now. Will Yeoman: An Evening With Gun-Brit Barkmin. Gillian Wells: Spartacus, Orawa, Four Last Songs. Fantasie in F Minor. Ben Brooker: Counting and cracking, The Second Woman. Barney Zwartz [Il Viaggo A Reims, Andrea Chenier, Parsifal, Jonny Spielt Auf. Richard Leathem: The Clock, And Then We Danced. Sophie Knezic: The Garden Of Forking Paths: Mira Gojak and Takehito Koganezawa, Composite Acts, Arlo Mount-Ford: Deep Revolt. Patrick McCaughey: Forged Rounds, Diptychs and Triptychs, Reverse Curve, The Universe Looks Down. Francesca Sasnaitis: Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting, Towards A Monument To Batman's Treaty, After Action For Another Library. Ian Dickson: Wozzeck, Wake In Fright. Kim Williams: Counting and Cracking, Never Look Away, Two Feet. Tali Lavi: The Australian Dream, I'm A Phoenix, Bitch, My Dearworthy Darling, Black Is The New White. Michael Halliwell: Wozzeck, Salome, The Real Thing.] p60. Anne Frank: parallel stories / Tali Lavi p66. Civilization: the way we live now / Alison Stieven-Taylor p68. Joke / Dilan Gunawardana p70. Anthem / Fiona Gruber p71.

No.417 DECEMBER 2019: Buildings or books- what makes a university [UWA publishing] / Robert White p2. To stand the blows: the flexile diaries of Helen Garner [Yellow Notebooks: diaries, volume I, 1978-1987 by Helen Garner] / Peter Rose p10. Being in the room [Penny Wong: Passion and principle by Margaret Simons] / Angela Woollacott p16. Australian Sappho [The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins] / Brenda Niall p17. Putting the terror in extraterritoriality / Christina Twomey p20. Political persuasion: the foundations of Ben Chifley's internationalism [J.B Chifley: an ardent internationalist by Julie Suares] / David Lowe p25. The war against nature: understanding the Mallee [Mallee Country: Land, people, history by Richard Broome] / Lilian Pearce p28. Books of the year [Felicity Plunkett, Grace Karskens, Frank Bongiorno, Alice Nelson, Trent Dalton, Billy Griffiths, James Ley, Susan Wyndham, Brenda Walker, Beejay Silcox, Paul Giles, Gregory Day, Ali Alizadeh, Fiona Wright, John Kinsella, Jacqueline Kent, Lisa Gorton, Andrea Goldsmith, Astrid Edwards, Chris Flynn, Brenda Niall, John Hawke, Kieran Pender, Ellen van Neerven, Glyn Davis, Marilyn Lake, Gideon Haig, Ceridwen Dovey, Bronwyn Lea, Zora Simic, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Geraldine Douge, Paul Kildea] p32. The fountain of sound advice: examining the Australian Treasury [Changing Fortunes: a history of the Australian Treasury by Paul Tilley] / Geoffrey Blainey p39. Death and sandwiches / Andrew Broertjes p49. Murder and redemption [The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga by Imre Salusinszky] / Jacqueline Kent p59. Open page with Margaret Simons p62. Judy and Punch / Anwen Crawford p66. The Selfish Giant / Peter Tregear p67. From the ABR Archive [Thea Astley's Drylands] p68.

No.418 JANUARY 2020: Sandy theatre: first encounter on the coast [The First Wave: Exploring early coastal contact history in Australia by Gillian Dooley and Danielle Clode] / Alexandra Roginski p11. Voice, treaty and truth: a deeply felt account of the Uluru Statement [Finding The Heart of the Nation: The journey of the Uluru Statement towards voice, treaty and turth] by Thomas Mayor] / David Trigger p12. Pein air [Womerah Lane: live and landscapes by Tom Carment] / Susan Wyndham p14. Flannery's bedrock [Life: selected writings by Tim Flannery] / Libby Robin p15. Gradual imposition and abuses: the use and abuse of official secrecy [Secret: The making of Australia's secruity state by Brian Toohey] / Kieran Pender p17. Whiplash: autopsy of a surprising election [The Surprise Party: How the Coalition went from chaos to comeback by Aaron Patrick] / Shaun Crowe p19. Messiahs and cheerful koalas [The Manner of Their Going: Prime Ministerial exits in Australia by Norman Abjorsensen] / Lyndon Megarrity p22. Drawing with light: a compelling biography of Olive Cotton [Olive Cotton: A life in photography by Helen Ennis] / Alison Stieven-Taylor p23. Chisholm's charm [Idling In Green Places: A life of Alec Chisholm by Russell McGregor] / Danielle Clode p26. Two worlds [Gulpilil by Derek Rielly] / Stephen Bennetts p27. Force of nature [A Spanner in the Works: The extrordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage by Loretta Smith] / Sharon Verghis p32. Style and suspense: Auspicious times for Australian crime fiction [Emma Viskic: Darkness for Light, Christian White: The Wife and the Widow, Gary Disher: Peace] / David Wish Wilson p36. Gone but not forgotten [See You At The Toxteth: The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on Crime by Peter Corris and selected by Jean Bedford. The Red Hand: Stories reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish: Peter Temple] / Chris Flynn p41. Tropes of terror [In Whom We Trust by John Clanchy] / Susan Lever p42. Wither wowser / Amanda Laugesen p43. Italian stories: the story of Italians in Australia [Italians in Australia: History, memory, identity by Francesco Ricatti] / Diana Glenn p49. Peter Porter Poetry Prize [My Father's Thesaurus by A. Frances Johnson, Precision Signs by Lachlan Brown, Constellation of Bees by Julie Manning, That Wadjela Tongue by Claire G. Coleman, South Coast Sonnets by Ross Gillett] p53. Publisher picks [Robert Watkins, Aviva Tuffield, Catherine Milne, Nathan Hollier, Phillipa McGuinness, Meredith Curnow, Barry Scott, Sophy Williams, Martin Hughes, Georgia Richter] p58. After the Mardi Gras [Unrequited love: diary of an accidental activist by Dennis Altman] / Sebastian Sharp p60. From Fitzroy to Heide [Heide by ?.0] /James Jing p61. Scars of the past [Sing This At My Funeral: A memoir of fathers and sons by David Slucki] / Merav Fima p63. Open page with Ceridwen Dovey p64. Guys and dolls [Dancing Under The Southern Skies: A history of ballet in Australia by Valerie Lawson] / Luke Forbes p66. Packet and Sons / Ian Dickson.p 67. Keith Harding/ Jean-Michel Basquiat: crossing lines / Sophie Knezic p68. Hugh Ramsay / Keren Rosa Hammerschlag p69. The Truth / Felicity Chaplin p71.

No.419 MARCH 2020: Season of reckoning [Black Summer bushfires] / Tom Griffiths p9. 'Australian Soul': a stellar work of Australian history [Attending to the national soul: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder] / Hugh Chilton p14. Crisis lexicon [words used in a crisis] / Amanda Laugesen p17. A multifarious mind [Aftershocks: selected writings and interviews by Anthony Macris] / Kari Gislason p18. Rewriting Lawson [The Drover's wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell] / Ellen van Neerven p24. Larrikins [Collected stories by Louis Nowra] / Gerard Windsor p25. City of shadows [True West by David Whish-Wilson] / Stephen Dedman p28. Inner worlds: three debuts about female experience [Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy, The Light After the War by Anita Abriel, Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden] / Susan Midalia p29. Suddenly last summer: the politics of climate change in Australia / David Holmes p36. Insights [Chis: the life and work of Alan Rowland Chisholm 1888-1981 by Stanley John Scott p45. 'dripping with gum': a lavish account of Australian Botany [Botanical revelation: European cncounters with Australian plants before Darwin by David J. Mabberley] / Danielle Clode p46. Shaping the land: Indigenous fire management in Australia [Fire country: how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia by Victor Steffensen] / Tim Low p52. Surging into the spotlight: Writing trans and gender-diverse lives [Over the top by Jonathan van Ness, About a girl: a mother's powerful story of raising a transgender child by Rebekah Robertson, Not just a tomboy by Caspar J. Baldwin] / Yves Rees p54. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam [play] / Susan Lever p60. The Deep Blue Sea [play] Ian Dickson p61. True History of the Kelly Gang [film] / Jordon Prosser p62. Fidelio [play] / Elizabeth Kertesz p63. Stage Whispers [Klippel at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Visitations, Disgustedly yours] p64. Surveying the musical [The Australian Musical from the Beginning by Petter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston] / Gillian Wills p67.

No.420 APRIL 2020: At Her Majesty's pleasure: Sir John Kerr and the royal dismissal secrets / Jenny Hocking p8. Imagining Tuganini: a history of turbulent times [Truganini: journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus] / Billy Griffiths p11. Sour bread and kangaroo: a legendary workers' strike [On Red Earth Walking: the Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour] / Jan Richardson p12.Pushing against the myths: Anzac in the national psyche [The Great War: aftermath and commemoration editied by Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves] p14. News deserts: a worrying portent for our democracy / Johanna Leggatt p21. Plorn's progress: Charles Dickens's youngest child in Australia [The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally] / Geordie Williamson p29. Me no dob, you no dob: Aravind Adiga's new novel [Amnesty by Aravind Adiga] / Alison Broionowski p30. High wire acts: four auspicious debut collections [Wild Fearless Chests, No Neat Ending, Shirl and A Couple of Things Before The End] / Susan Midalia p32. Hard-won wisdom: a well realised debut [The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton] / Naama Grey-Smith p33. Sonny and Vice: an assured debut [The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham] / Sonia Nair p36. Poet of the month with Ali Alizadeh p42. The pain of mothers: a poitican on filial relationships [Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion by Robert Tickner] / Josh Black p43. Facinf, accepting, floating: Claire Weekes's pioneering approach to 'nerves' [The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare[ / Carol Middleton p46. The art of acquiring: the first forty years of Australian Galleries [Australian Galleries: the Purves family business: the first four decades 1956-1999 by Caroline Field] / Sheridan Palmer p53. Open page with Cassandra Pybus p54. A live volcano: an enthralling new Salome / Michael Shmith p56. A thousand doors: the human condition in The Curtain / Fiona Gruber p57. BBQ-stopped: the return of Emerald City / Diane Stubbings p58. Deeps of the imagination: the art of Robert Klippel / Patrick McCaughey p59.

No.421 MAY 2020: First the pandemic, then the Australia Council / Peter Rose p1. ABR's new chair- Sarah Holland-Batt p7. I spoke to many people and listened: on living in a time of Covid-19 / Robyn Archer p11. Questions of access: the National Archives responds to Jenny Hocking's article on the 'Palace letters' / David Fricker p13. Fearless speech: the fate of whistleblowers [Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an age of fraud by Tom Mueller] / Kieran Pender p15. Notes on a pandemic: how society has responded to Covid-19 / Hessom Razavi p18. Seismographs of the human heart: writers nominate books that solace or distract p24. Outliers: intersections in Australian literature [Friends and Rivals: Four great Australian writers by Brenda Niall] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p28. Destiny things: scrutinising the 2019 election [Party Animals: The secret history of a Labor fiasco by Samantha Maiden] / Paul Williams p30. A vernacular intellectual: a probing, gentle personality [I Wonder: the life and work of King Inglis edited by Peter Browne and Seumas Spark] / Nicholas Brown p31. Lessons to be learned: notes on a pandemic [Fighting for our lives: The history of a community response to AIDS by Nick Cook] / Garry Wotherspoon p32. Days of our Grindr: wordswarms and quiet observations [The Adversary by Ronnie Scott] / Alex Cothren p37. Ties that bind: three new Australian crime novels [The Long Shadow by Anne Buist, Torched by Kimberley Starr, In The Clearing by JP Pomare] / David Whish-Wilson p39. Catalyst and curio: the dank spectre of racism [Pathfinders: a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW by Michael Bennett] / Michael Winkler p45. Multiple perspectives: a postcolonial look at the Gold Rush era [Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Miranda Riwoe / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p49. Demographic dividends: a superpower can improve our lives [The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover by Liz Allen] / Peter Mares p55. Open page with James Bradley p56.

No.422 JUNE 2020: Failures of judgement: memoirs of an unlikely Liberal leader [Malcolm Turnbull: A Bigger Picture] / Judith Brett p8. Myths and realities: two labor prime ministers from gold towns [Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: the making of the modern Labor Party by Liam Byrne] / Frank Bongiorno p11. The Prahran grocer: an influential if obscure Victorian leader [Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the making of Australian politics by Sean Scalmer] / Benjamin T. Jones p14. The laws are not silent: how war can distort the ideas of right and wrong [Law in War: Freedom and restrictions in Australia during the Great War by Catherine Bond] / Kieran Pender p15. Unsolicited smut: a nation of prudes and wowsers [The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia's censorship system by Patrick Mullins] / James Ley p17. The thing I mostly am: the many treks of Robyn Davidson [On Robyn Davidson: Writers on writers by Ricahrd Cooke] / Sophie Cunningham p18. Contested breath: the ethics of assembly in an age of absurdity / Sarah Walker p20. Gabriel's grave mission: a confident debut from the Vogel winner [A Treacherous Country by K.M Kruimink] / Nicole Abadee p29.Rippling outward: an imaginative allegorical novel [The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p31. Marvel of quirks: a delightful collection of short stories [Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan] / Lisa Bennett p32. Reading the mess backwards / Yves Rees p36. Coronaspeak: tracking in a pandemic / Amanda Laugesen p40. Rights and responsibilities: literary journals and freedom of expression / Robert Wood p41. Ambiguous Howard: John Howard's third term [Trials and Transformations, 2001-2004: The Howard Government, volume III edited by Tom Frame] / Lyndon Megarrity p43. The magnificent Mrs Mac: Australia's woman radio pioneer [Radio Girl: The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend by David Duffy] / Jacqueline Kent p45. Sweet man: unriddling a mercurial father [Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia by Darleen Bungey] / Tali Lavi p48. Not what they used to be: pre-pandemic reflections on elders [Grandmothers: essays by 21st century grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott, A Lasting Conversation: Stories on aging edited by Dr Susan Ogle and Melanie Joosten] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p50. A universal hum: three new poetry collections [MTC Cronin, Michael Farrell, Jordie Albiston] / Luke Beesley p53. Morning carries on: two new poetry collections [Ross Gillett, Mark Tredinnick] / Geoff Page p55. Applause, applause: the education of an operamane / Ian Dickson p58. Fear of the latent germ: government versus artists during the Spanish Flu / Nicholas Tochka p60. Catharsis: an Australian film about PTSD [Heart and Bones] / Jordan Prosser p61. Missing from view: the museums as sites of contestation [The Whole Picture: the colonial story of the art in our museum and why we need to talk about it by Alice Procter] / Meg Foster p63. Calcified visions: immersion in an art movement [The Stranger Artist: life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague] / Luke Stegemann p64. Many flights of stairs: Australian women artists in France [Intrepide: Australian women artists in early twentieth-century France by Clem Gorman and Therese Gorman] / Jane Sullivan p65. A woman with agency: Samira Elagoz's Cock Cock...Who's There / Tali Lavi p66. From the archive [Sonya Hartnett's Of A Boy] p68.

No.423 AUGUST 2020: Links in the chain: legacies of British slavery in Australia / Georgina Arnott p8. Coetzee's paradoxes: a writer of inbetween states [J.M Coetzee: Truth, meaning, fiction by Anthony Uhlmann and A Book of Friends: In honour of J.M Coestzee on his 80th birthday by Dorothy Driver] / Paul Giles p15. A grace note / David Malouf p17. Look at me!: Bernie Wooster runs the house [The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble by Christopher Pine] / James Walter p19. A curse on art, a curse on society: government contempt for the ABC, the arts, and the academy / James Ley p22. Green shirt just visible: a restless Marxist and Archaeologist [The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe by Terry Irving] / Jon Piccini p26. Muraging's story: a thought provoking historical novel [Benevolence by Julie Janson] / Jessica Irwin p35. Egg timer / C.J Garrow p36. Hieroglyph / Simone Hollander p41. River story / Mykaela Saunders p45. Law's #MeToo moment: effecting change in the legal profession / Kieran Pender p50. Some first-rate sport: a metaphorical colonial conquest [The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver] / Danielle Clode p53. Loss of breath is the legacy: not so much an anthology as a reckoning [Fire Front: First nations poetry and power today edited by Alison Whittaker] / Declan Fry p60. Omnivorous and fractal three new poetry collection [Mount Sumptuous by Aidan Coleman, Navigable Ink by Jennifer Mackenzie, A Happening in Hade by S.K Kelen] / James Jing p61. Geography of desire: not quite a memoir [Sky Swimming: reflection on auto/biogrpahy, people and place by Sylvia Martin] / Sarah Walker p66. Island redivivus: an invigorating collision of perspectives [Island 159 edited by Vern Field] / Rayne Allinson p68. Disparities and delights: Meanjin's winter issue [Meanjin Quarterly: Volume 79, Issue 2 edited by Jonathan Green] / Elizabeth Bryer p68. Open page with Patrick Allington p69. The adventures of Jay Swan: a new series of Mystery Road / Jordan Prosser p70. From the archive [Judith Wright's review of the Poetical Works of Charles Harper from 1984] p72.

No.424 SEPTEMBER 2020: High fives: a turgid study of women in politics [Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala] / Megan Clement p8. Out of sight, out of mind: Australia's moral responsibility to West Papua [The Road: Uprising in West Papua by John Martinkus and Too Close To Ignore by Mark Moran] / Kieran Palmer p11. Life and poetry: a writer of glass-delicate lyrics [David Campbell: a life of the poet by Jonathan Persse] / Philip Mead p16. Collaborations: an insider's look at Paul Kelly [Paul Kelly: the man, the music and the life in-between by Stuart Coupe] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p20. Thinking in headlines: Frank Kermode on banalisation / Peter Rose p21. Blood at the root: a salutatory anthology [After Australia edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad] / Declan Fry p25. The curse of resources: an enraged and sorrowful essay [The Coal Curse: Resources, climate and Australia's future (Quarterly Essay 78) by Judith Brett] Cameron Muir p27. To live in paradise alone: rewriting her-story [A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville] / Don Anderson

No.425 OCTOBER 2020: Bodies in motion: the pandemic, the economy and the dictator [COVID and Melbourne and Victoria] / Paul Muldoon p7. The world's most dangerous man: the paradox of Donald Trump p10. Interpreting the archives [Traitors and Spies: Espionage and corruption in high places in Australia 1901-50 by John Fahey] / Shelia Fitzpatrick p11. The flame of the small heart: the conclusion of the Dunera Project [Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis] / Adam Wakeling p14. Because you're mine: all the dangers of big tech in one film [The Social Dilemma] / Josh Krook p16. The problem of belonging: the Twitter mob is a threat to writers and journalists / Johanna Leggatt p18. Things known and foreknown: a virtuoso performance from Gail Jones [Our Shadows by Gail Jones] / Sue Kossew p22. Genital advantages: a new biography of the suffrage activist [Vida: A Woman for our time by Jacqueline Kent] / Sylvie Martin p34. Actually exisiting Australia / Louis Klee p38. Read, learn, buy!: Australia's most extraordinary bookseller [Under The Rainbow: The life and times of EW Cole by Richard Broinowski] / Jim Davidson p42. Publisher of the month with Sandy Grant p45. Back to Bellbird: a revelatory study of Australian television [Creating Australian Television Drama: A screenwriting history by Susan Lever] / Moya Costello p51. Working in the shadows: belated recognition of Australian prose poetry / Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton p54. Gravitas and a twinkly grin: a thespian stays true to his roots [How I Clawed My Way To The Middle by John Wood] / Diana Simmonds p61. Open page with Richard Fidler p62.

No.426 NOVEMBER 2020: Patterns of movement: a profound and risky history [People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens] / Alan Atkinson p7. Slurring a good name: the pitfalls of careless scholarship [Hirsch Munz accused of being part of a Soviet spy ring not exposed in the Petrov affair] / Martin Munz p12. The histories that shape us: in search of the author's father [The Other Side of Absence: Discovering my father's secrets by Betty O'Neill] / Iva Glisic p13. Sary and George: a feminist publisher revisits the past [Oh Happy Day: Those times and these times by Carmen Callil] / Brenda Niall p18. Chequerboard forests: walking with intent [Wild Nature: Walking Australia's south east forests by John Blay] / Saskia Beudel p21. Thinking in a regional accent: new ways of contemplating Australian writers / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth p24. A rising scream: an essay on the metaphysics of love [The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan] / James Ley p28. Violent hearts: an Australian fairy tale [Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings] / Georgia White p31. Cavalcade of coincidences: Andrew Pippos's debut novel [Lucky's by Andrew Pippos] / Sonia Nair p33. Places within: confronting the legacy of absue [Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna] / Nicole Adabee p34. Ripple effects: pinpoints of life experience [Dreams They Forgot by Emma Ashmere] / Rose Lucas p35. A bumpy road: Craig Silvey's new novel [Honeybee by Craig Silvey] / Anna MacDonald p36. Crammed with surprises: Trent Dalton's new novel [All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton] / Susan Wyndham p37. Open page with Craig Silvey p38. Failures of imagination: a journey from Tehran's prisons to Australia's immigration detention centres / Hessom Razavi p39. Matters of identity: an engaging biography of Mark Leibler [The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, and Australian Jewish life by Michael Gawenda] / David Trigger p47. After the waves: a tribute to a pioneering Labor feminist [Susan Ryan] / Joshua Black p50. Living the unspeakable: communicating pain [Show Me Where It Hurts: living with invisible illness by Kylie Maslen] / Kate Crowcroft p52. Sue and Saroo: a memoir of motherhood [Lioness: the extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as Lion by Sue Brierley] / Margaret Robson Kett p53. Listening to the science: Coronavirus and climate change / David Holmes p54. Poet of the month with Judith Bishop p57. No consolation in loss: how Labor might win the next election [How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace] / Nadia David p59. New rites of passage: theatregoing in the Covid era / Ian Dickson p61. From the archive [Charmain Clift] p64.

No.427 DECEMBER 2020: What is to be done: imagining a post COVUD future [What Happened Next?: Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19 by Emma Dawson and Upturn: A better normal after Covid-19 edited by Tanya Plibersek] / Morag Fraser p8. Politicising intelligence: an idiosyncratic history [Spinning the Secrets of State: Politics and intelligence in Australia by Justin T. McPhee] / Peter Edwards p13. Hiding in the detail: An insider's history of Australian art [Recent Past: Writing Australian art by Daniel Thomas] / Julie Ewington p20. Books of the year [Sarah Holland-Batt, Frank Bongiorno, Beejay Silcox, Judith Brett, Paul Giles, Declan Fry, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Kim Williams, Morag Fraser, Tony Birch, Don Anderson, Alice Nelson, James Ley, Yves Rees, John Hawke, Felicity Plunkett, Gregory Day, Ali Alizadeh, Jacqueline Kent, Billy Griffiths, John Kinsella, Patrick McCaughey, Susan Wyndham, James Walter, A. Frances Johnson, Philip Mead, Brenda Niall, Kieran Pender, Brenda Walker, Peter Rose, David McCooey, Sarah Walker, Tony Hughes D'Aeth] p23. The art of looking: a rich appreciation of Beverley Farmer [On Beverley Farmer: Writers on writers by Josephine Rowe] / Anna MacDonald p30. Critic of the month with Paul Giles p32. A passion for words and truth: Shirely Hazzard's short fiction [The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard] / Brenda Niall p34. Transformations: Meg Kenally's second solo novel [The Wreck by Meg Keneally] / Pip Smith p35. Other dimensions: Philip Salom's fifth novel [The Fifth Season by Philip Salom] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p36. A nowhere space: Kate Mildenhall's urgent new novel [The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall] / Amy Baillieu p41. Open page with Danielle Clode p42. Love is the subject: a welcome new edition of Martin Johnston [Beautiful Objects: selected poems by Martin Johnston] / John Hawke p43. Grace and burdens an elegant and new Selected Poems [Reaching Light: Selected poems by Robert Adamson] / James Jiang p44. The elephant in the room: prose poetry finds an audience [The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry edited by Cassandra Atherton] / Des Cowley p45. Numinous wellings: three new poetry volumes [Cadaver Dog, Thorn, Some Sketchy Notes on Matter] / Anders Villani p46. Blankety-blank: the art of euphemism / Amanda Laugesen p49. Acts of intimate banality: questioning the axing of Casey Jenkin's grant / Lara Stevens p50. Telling it like it is: an influential, controversial anthropologist [More Than Mere Words: Essays on language and linguistics in honor of Peter Sutton Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and anthropological essays in honour of Peter Sutton] / Stephen Bennetts p56. Echoes: a straightforward memoir [Mary's Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer by Mary Li] / Jacquline Kent p62. Stepping up to the plate: Women in Australian aviation [Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air by Kathy Mexted] / Jay Daniel Thompson p64. Return of The Doll: a revival of Richard Mills's 1996 opera [Summer of the Seventeenth Doll] / Ben Brooker p65.

No.428 JANUARY 2021: An endless tussle with the past: two different readings of the Palace Letters [The Truth of the Palace Letter by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston, The Palace Letter by Jenny Hocking] / Jon Piccini p9. An unworkable shitshow: the collective betrayal of Julian Assange / Kieran Pender p11. Curial bollockings: the monstrous cost of seeking justice [Witness: an investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice by Louise Milligan- the Cardinal Pell investigation] / Beejay Silcox p15. Tjanimaku Tjukurpa: How one young man came good by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council] / Kim Mahood p20. The rock who steadies us: a leader of transcendent warmth [Lowitja: the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul] / Michael Winkler p22. The Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist p24. Immortality on his mind: a reductive study of the young Nick Cave [Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue] / Tim Byrne p32. Swashbuckler and son: Tim Olsen's matey, meaty memoir [Son of a Brush: a memoir by Tim Olsen / Ian Britain p34. Winning the lottery: Paul Jennings's unusual new memoir [Untwisted: the story of my life by Paul Jennings] / Barnaby Smith p36. Think global, act local: Cathy McGowan's colourful political memoir [Cathy Goes to Canberra: doing politics differently by Cathy McGowan] / Joshua Black p37. Disher country: a tale of rural gothic [Consolation by Garry Disher] / Tony Birch p40. Cross over into campgrounds: a original debut [Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson] / Jane Sullivan p42. Ripples of traume: a poetic weaving of voices [Mother Tonhue by Joyce Kornblatt] / Rose Lucas p45. Ecstasy and peril: a romp through romance and sexuality [Poly by Paul Dalgarno] / Kate Crowcrodt p48. Critic of the month with Beejay Silcox p49. Writing happiness: a lively look at Elizabeth von Arnim [Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey] / Juliane Roemhild p50. Observer effect: three new poetry collections [Kate llewellyn, Benjamin Dodds, Jospehine Clarke] / Ella Jeffrey p54. Camouflaging the cussword: exploring Australian slang [Rooted: An Australian history of bad language by Amanda Laugesen] / Kate Burridge p56. Once, twice, thrice: a year of lamentation [Fire Flood Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 / Sophie Cunningham] / Adele Dumont p60. A promising gift: revisiting a short lived prodigy [Archie Jackson: Cricket's tragic genius] / Daniel Seaton p63. OPen page with Louise Milligan p64. A reservoir of grief: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce at TarraWarra / Saskia Beudel p67. Yielding to temptation: Kip William's take on Wilde's novells / Ian Dickson p68. An evening of Charpentier: the return of Pinchgut / Michael Halliwell p69. The ballet boy: a candid memoir from David McAllister [Soar: A life freed by dance by David McAllister] / Carol Middleton p70.


No.429 MARCH 2021: The ultimate gesture of respect: the appeal of truth telling 'Truth-telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds] / Sarah Maddison p8. A fraught endeavour: internationalism and the Tasman world [Distant Sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-1914 by James Keating] / Marilyn Lake p9. Unearthing the dead: a literary meditation on landscape and violence [Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory by Luke Stegemann] / Ashley Kalagian Blunt p13. Conflicts of interest: a collegial history of Australian universities [Australian Universities: A history of common cause by Gwilym Croucher and James Waghorne] / Peter Tregear p16. In whitish light: memoir as a cautionary tale [He by Murray Bail] / Gerard Windsor p26. Walking fuel stocks: twenty essays on rage [Women of a Certain Rage edited by Liz Byrski] / Caitlin McGregor p28. Letter from Adelaide: presenting A Midsummer Night's Dream during a pandemic / Paul Kildea p30. Critic of the month with Jacqueline Kent p32. Scratching the surface: Trevor Shearston's new novel [The Beach Caves by Trevor Shearston] / Andrew McLeod p35. Ugliness and beauty: Karen Wyld's poignant new novel [Where The Fruit Fall by Karen Wyld] / Laura La Rosa p40. Would you be free for dinner?: an evening with John Le Carre / Michael Morley p41. Common themes: three new first novels [Eye of the Rook by Josephine Taylor, Everyday Madness by Susan Midalia, A Room Called Earth by Madeline Ryan] / Debra Adelaide p42. Narrow window of opportunity: Tim Flannery's new road map [The Climate Cure: Solving the climate emergency in the era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery] / Alistair Thomson p46. Looking away: balancing horror and hope [Summertime: reflections on a vanishing future by Danielle Celermajer] / Alice Bishop p49. Reimagining Douglas Grant: speculating about a life [The Legacy of Douglas Grant: a notable Aborigine in war and peace by John Ramsland] / Noah Riseman p52. A assured place: Australia's pre-eminent formalist [The Strangest Place: New and selected poems by Stephen Edgar] / Geoff Page p53. Laureate of polysituatedness: Paul Muldoon's liminal poetry [Dislocations: The selected innovative poems of Paul Muldoon] / James Jiang p54. Lost city: different expressions of love for Sydney [Killing Sydney: The fight for the soul of the city by Elizabeth Farrelly and Sydney by Delia Falconer] / Jacqueline Kent p57. Ring resounding: Melbourne Opera's launches its Ring Cycle / Emma Muir-Smith p64. Avenue of honour: Trent Parke's moving anthropomorphism [photographic exhibition on the Ballarat Avenue of Honour] / A. Frances Johnson p65. Red flags: Lanford Wilson's provocative new play [Burn This performed by fortyfivedownstairs] / Sarah Walker p67. From the archive [Ruth Park] p68.

No.430 APRIL 2021: The adventures of 'Hanging Bill': an elegant book about the pull of Uluru [Return to Uluru: A killing, a hidden history, a story that goes to the heart of the nation by Mark McKenna] / Barry Hill p7. A different kind of loneliness:the story of two complex Australian women [Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan] / Kim Mahood p9. The gymnastics of rectitude: an unrelentingly partisan history [A Liberal State: How Australians chose liberalism over socialism by David Kempe] / Frank Bongiorno p12. Untangling concepts: exploring academic licence and freedom of speech [Open Minds: Academic freedom and freedom of speech in Australia by Carolyn Evans] / Kieran Pender p12. A network of compulsion: the riddle of reconciliation [A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia by Katherine Massam] / Meredith Lake p18. The Doherty bunch: recruiting your own children as spies [With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan] / Jane Sullivan p21. What is it about sisters: a deeply wounded memoir [Monsters by Alison Croggon] / Sarah Walker p23. Out of the shadows: a memoir of hearing, loss and identity [The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy] / Andrea Goldsmith p24. A plague on all our houses: how theatre companies are coping after lockdown / Tim Byrne p26. Swimming between boundaries: myriad stories from John Kinsella [Pushing Back by John Kinsella] / Thuy On p30. Addressing identity: stories of present-day Tasmania [Born Into This by Adam Thompson] / Anthony Lynch p32. The beauty of the ordinary: stories of loss and devastation [Smokehouse by Melissa Manning] / Elizabeth Bryer p33. Taking the temperature: four new novels [The Price of Two Sparrows by Christy Collins, Repentance by Alison Gibbs, Low Expectations by Stuart Everly-Wilson, Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford] / Anna MacDonald p34. Objects of readerly desire: some very different book editors [Literary Lion Tamers: Book editors who made publishing history by Craig Munro] / Susan Sheridan p36. Publisher of the month with Kent MacCarter p41. Springboards: three new poetry collections [I Don't Know How That Happened by Oliver Driscoll, Nothing to Declare by Mags Webster, The Dancer in Your Hands by Jo Pollitt] / Gig Ryan p42. May every kiss be a coastline: new collections from three assured poets [Wow by Bill Manhire, Biological Necessity by Jennifer Maiden, In This Part of The World by Kevin Brophy] / Rose Lucas p43. The keys to the castle: restoring a sense of the primacy of science / Claudio Bozzi p45. Haunted history: the BAAS's 84th congress [A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia by Lynette Russell] / Dianne Stubbings p47. The pastures of yous: an unevan poetic memoir [Walk Like A Cow: A memoir by Brendan Ryan] / Aidan Coleman p55. Open page with Mark McKenna p65. Escaping Bluebeard: Bartok's opera as a #MeToo thriller / Malcolm Gilles p59. An invitation to slow down: celebrating the art and culture of the Tiwi people [TIWI and the NGV] / Kelly Gellatly p60. A wealth of iconic paintings: stellar works from London's National Gallery [Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London at the National Gallery of Australia] / Keren Rosa Hammerschlag p61. Free music: a subtle volume with poignant depths [Distant Dreams: The correspondence of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross 1946-1960 by Tessa Balough] / David Pear p63.In Beatie's footsteps: a new adaption of Ruth Park's classic [Playing Beatie Bow STC[ / Polly Simons p66. Hunger and defiance: Patricia Cornelius's fierce and fiery new play [RUNT firtyfivedownstairs] / Tim Bryne p67. From the archive [The Blainey View reviewed by Don Watson in 1982] p68.

No.431 MAY 2021: The Johnnies and the Mehmets: unraveling the myths [When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand and the Armenian genocide by James Robins] / Ashley Kalagian Blunt p9. A complex mosaic: a new book from a distinguished archival historian [White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War history of migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick] / Stuart Macintyre p10. A the cannon's mouth: Alfred Deakin's enterprising daughter [Vera Deakin and the Red Cross by Carole Woods] /Judith Brett p14. The legacy of Hugh Stretton: a democratic thinker in the lottery of life / Glyn Davis p18. Nice and Lena [Love Objects by Emily Maguire] / Fiona Wright p10. Distinctive voices: three new crime novels [The Spiral by Iain Ryan, Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald and Shelter by Catherine Jinks] / David Whish Wilson p32. The awful sense of loss: the language of climate grief / Amanda Laugesen p34. Open page with Krissy Kneen p36. Ways of knowing: Paddy Roe and the Goolarabooloo [The Children's Country: Creation of Goolarabooloo future in north-west Australia by Stephen Muecke] / Philip Morrissey p43. Anarchy and the state: a pattern of cynicism and neglect [Dead In The Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe… the death of the Murry Darling Basin / Richard Beasley] / Kristy Howey p44. Teeming leeches: the perils of experimentalism [Dizzy limits: recent experiments in Australian nonfiction] / James Antoniou p45. Beyond platitudes: contemporary resonances in Randolph Stow's oeuvre [Randolph Stow: Critical Essays by Kate Leah Rendell] / Brenda Walker p46.Fertile ground: a collection of writings on writing [Reading Like an Australian Writer by Belinda Castles] / Polly Simons p47. Lech Blaine's double life: the banality of trauma [Car Crash by Lech Blaine] / Jack Cameron Stanton p54. Balancing act: a forgotten pioneer of aviation [Beyond the sky: the passions of Millcent Bryant, aviator by James Vicars] / Per Henningsgaard p56. No longer the runt: a ringing debut from National Opera [La Clemenza] / Malcolm Gillies p59. Bells and whistles: a luminous exhibition in Adelaide [Clarice Beckett: The Present Moment] / Julie Ewington p60. The power of the gaze: a substantial retrospective of William Yang's work / Jacqueline Chlanda p61.

No. 432 JUNE 2021: The gospel of Stan: questions of history and identity [biography and identity of Stan Grant] / by Declan Fry p7. A pen on fire: the enduring appeal of Inga Clendinnen [Inga Clendinnen: Selected writings edited by James Boyce] / Tom Griffiths p15. Frankenfish: Richard Flanagan's expose of the Salmon Industry [Toxic: the rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry by Richard Flanagan] / James Boyce p18. 'I don't hold a hose, mate': the luck and swagger of Scott Morrison [How good is Scott Morrison? by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen] / Paul D. Williams p23. The digital cliff: protecting the National Archives of Australia / by Peter McPhee p26. The split state: Australia's binary myth about people seeking asylum / by Hessom Razavi p27. Open Page with Stan Grant [interview] p34. Karuna's story: Alice Pung's first novel for adults [One hundred days by Alice Pung] / Yen-Rong Wong p39. A period in the shade: Patrick White thirty years on / by Martin Thomas p44. The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award: the parodic inventiveness of Gwen Harwood / by Ann-Marie Priest p49. Foundational myths: NGV paves the way for future breakaways / A. Frances Johnson p61. 'The sun is still shining': bring A.H. Fullwood into the light [Picturing a nation: the art and life of A.H. Fullwood by Gary Werskey] / Jane Clark p64.

No.433 JULY 2021: The prison of the past: the promise and the risk of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission / Paul Muldoon p8. Coming together after a struggle: a process of belated state-building [Everything You Need To Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Megan Davis] / Kevin Bell p11. Stay clear of the prayer room: a prelude to the Brittany Higgins case [Sex, Lies and Question Time: A prelude to the Brittany Higgins case by Kate Ellis] / Katrina Lee-Koo p14. Preaching to the converted: burdening literature with moral instruction [Racism: Stories on fear, hate and bigotry edited by Winnie Dunn] / Mindy Gill p15. Another country: a bravura act of biographical recovery [by Gideon Haigh] / Frank Bongiorno] p17. The partisan funnel: the inside story of our current malaise [Leadership by Don Russell, A Decade of Drift by Martin Parkinson] / James Walter p18. Stopping 'Ming' in his tracks: the weapon of feminine respectability [Save Our Sons: Women, dissent and conscription in the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins] / Michelle Arrow p22. Aha!: personal epiphanies from the 1960s [Radicals: Remembering the sixties by Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p23. Inglorious diplomacy: Australia's sorry history in Timor [A Narrative fo Denial: Australian and the Indonesian violation of East Timor by Peter Job] / Ken Ward p28. The fences of resolve: Ian Turnbull's vicious sense of entitlement [The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden] / Cameron Muit p29. The secrets of Ethel: reimagining the catalyst of the literary hoax [Sincerely, Ethel Malley by Stephen Orr] / Susan Sheridan p37. Pretty's what got you here: Laura Elizabeth Woollett's second novel [The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett] / Jay Daniel Thompson p38. Possibilites of resistance: three narrative of women's experience [All That I Remember About Dean Cola by Tania Chandler, Catch Us The Foxes by Nicola West, Spring Clean for the Peach Queen by Sasha Wasley] / Susan Midalia p41. Coincidences and connection: a early encounter with Hilma af Klint by Patricia Fullerton p49. Merit in quietude: two new poetry collections [A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong, Turbulence by Thuy On] / James Jiang p53. Fragments of many stars: Elfie Shiosaki's stellar collection [Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki / Jeanine Leane p55. Fully documented lives: a fond and intelligent book [A Paper Inheritance: The passionate literary lives of Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Ress by Dymphna Stella Rees] / Susan Lever p56. Years of wine and rage: much candour, less reflection [The Most I Could Be: A renaissance story by Dale Kent] / Jacquline Kent p61. Open page with Larissa Behrendt p62. A life of wonder: a revered actor who bucked trends [My Name Is Gulpili film] / Travis Akbar p64.

No.434 AUGUST 2021: Why settle for a mere farm?: assessing Dark Emu's version of Aboriginal history [Farmer or Hunter-gatherers: The Dark Emu debate by Peter Sutton] / Stephen Bennetts p7. Closer:chaos and coming of age [The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker] / Kate Crowcroft p20. Robin Boyd as trampoline: revisiting The Australian Ugliness [After The Australian Ugliness by Naomi Stead] / Jim Davidson p23. Creative ways to make trouble: a former senator's new activism [Full Circle: a search for the world that comes next by Scott Ludlum] / Dominic Kelly p24. The other side of the story: the smuggler as humanitarian [Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia by Ruth Balint] / Elizabeth Holdsworth p29. The enemy, Asyndeton [Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / Camilla Chaudhary p32. Carrying out stories: Tony's Birch's new short fiction [Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch] / Anthony Lynch p40. MonstersL a hitchcockian debut [The Tribute by John Byron] / Jay Daniel Thompson p41. Bani's story [The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmed] / Shannon Burns p42. A fall from grace [Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / John Richards p45. Poet of the month with John Kinsella p50. There are no stars here, either [Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize] / Lauren Sarazen p51. Elevator pitches: three experimental novels [Night Blues, Where the Line Breaks and The Speech Writer] / Alex Cothren p55. Open page with Laura Elizabeth Woollett p60. Shared interests: Russell and Mabel Grimwade's legacy [Pride of Place: Exploring the Grimwade Collection] / John Arnold p62. What's the idea of you? [Happy Days Saumel Beckett Old Fitz Theatre] / Ian Dickson p63. Contemporary fable: the phenomenon of Hilma af Klint [Hilma Klint: The secret paintings Art Gallery of New South Wales] / Julie Ewington p64.


No.435 SEPTEMBER 2021: Covid-19 and the pass sanitaire / Megan Clement p10. All things infectious: a lazy pandemical collection [An Insider's Plague Year by Peter Doherty] / Diane Stubbings p12. Something in the air: a haunting puzzle of a novel [The Airways by Jennifer Mills] / Amy Baillieu p16. Smoke in the head: Miles Allinson's new novel [In Moonland by Miles Allinson] / Daniel Jecks p19. The nature of race: my nomination for the space crone / Elizabeth Oliver p23. Calibre Eassy Prize May Day / Anita Punton p24. Critic of the month with Sheila Fitzpatrick p37. Labour of love: the biogrpahy of a pedagological innovator [The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein] / Gideon Haigh p38. Airwave feminism: a history of women broadcasters [Sound Citizens: Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 by Catherine Fisher] / Yves Rees p39. The calculus of number: the indefinite detention of EML019 [Escape from manus: the untold true story by Javiet Ealom] / Justine Poon p42. Bushwalks and rambles [The Way of the Bushwalker: On foot in Australia by Melissa Harper] / Caitlin Doyle-Marwick p43. Questions of belonging: the consequences of introduced species [Imaginative Possession: learning to live in the Antipodes by Belinda Probert] / Paul Dalgarno p44. Prowess with numbers: the life on an outspoken economist [The Gypsy Economist: The life and times of Colin Clark by Alex Millmow] / John Tang p56. Open page with Jennifer Mills p60.A valiant production: a Melbourne stalwart tackles Lear [King Lear Melbourne Shakespeare Company] / Robert Reid p62.

No.436 OCTOBER 2021: Failures of strategic imagination: revisiting the American alliance / James Curran p10. Floating in outer space: two decades of Tampa politics [After the Tampa: From Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari] / Ruth Balint p12. Tongerlongeter's story: revisiting the indomitable military leader [Tongerlongeter: First National leader and Tasmanian war hero by Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements] / Libby Connors p13. Proof of intention: the media implications of the Voller case by David Rolph p15. For whom is it free: correcting assumptions about knowledge [True Tracks: respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke] / Laura Raedmaker p16. Blurb praise and hot takes: criticism in an age of publicity / James Jiang p21. Truth-telling: Veronica Gorrie's memoir of family and survival [Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and survival by Veronica Gorrie] / Meriki Onus p26. Fashioning the self: reinvention as fact and metaphor [Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down] / Susan Midalia p34. Bare life and health terror: Giorgio Agamben on the politics of the pandemic / David jack p40. The pull of Paris: Colonial Australia's antidote to England [French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions by Alexis Bergantz] / Jim Davidson p43. High ideals and dysfunction: the complex history of the 'helping court' [Broken: Children, parents and family courts by Camilla Nelson and Catharine Lumby] / Kath Kenny p45. Covidspeak revisited: the latest lexical mutations / Amanda Laugesen p46. Keeping a straight face: a lively survey of monarchies [God Save The Queen: The strange persistence of monarchies by Dennis Altman] / John Rickard p47. The awkward squad: Barry Jones goes into battle [What Is To Be Done: Political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones] / Paul Morgan p48. Trauma and discovery [My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley] / Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen p51. Eve and Steve: distinguishing fiction from biography [Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines] / Susan Sheridan p52. Freedom and possibility: portrait of a year in poetry [Fishing for Lightning: The spark of poetry by Sarah Hollan-Batt] / David McCooey p53. Open page with Claire G. Coleman p56. With their own hands:poems that refuse easy resolution [Letters from the Periphery by Alex Skovron] / Geoff Page p57. Island: new ecopoetry by Kristen Lang and Caitlin Maling [Fish Work by Caitlin Mailing, Earth Dwellers by Kristen Lang] / Ella Jeffery p58. Poet of the month with Alex Skovron p60. Winning a seat at the table: the highs and lows faced by parliamentary women [Ms Represented featuring Annabel Crabb] / Michelle Staff and Joshua Black p62. Atmospheric fragments [A Midnight Visit by Broad Encounters] / Zenobia Frost p66.

Australian Book Review
No. 437 NOVEMBER 2021: ScoMo and his flow brain: three portraits of an elusive prime minister [Scott John Morrison] / Judith Brett p7. Anything, anywhere, anytime: gloves off in the fight for Native Title [Title fight: how the Yindjibrandi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary] / Stephen Benetts p10. Heading off the revolution: how settler colonialism reshaped the world [The world turned inside out: settler colonialism as a political idea by Lorenzo Veracini] / Sarah Maddison p12. Pacific tensions: Australia’s interactions with the Pacific [Australia and the Pacific: a history by Ian Hoskins] / Robin Gerster p16. No different to Nazis: the SAS’s reign of terror in Afghanistan [Rogue forces: an explosive insiders’ account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy] / Kevin Foster p21. Trouble in the fourth estate: finding careers in journalism [Upheaval: disrupted lives in journalism edited by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Richardson] / Gemma Nisbet p26. Old man yells at cloud: Christos Tsiolkas turns to autofiction [7 1/2 by Christos Tsiolkas] / Declan Fry p29. Wayne’s world: Emily Bitto’s baroque new novel [Wild abandon by Emily Bitto] / Amy Baillieu p31. Hot, red proof of life: SJ Norman’s impressive short story collection [Permafrost by SJ Norman] / Paul Dalgarno p32. Did the bird talk dirty?: Antoni Jach’s new novel [Travelling companion by Antoni Jach] / Andrew McLeod p33. Minds set free: three new graphic novels [When one person dies the whole world is over by Mandy Ord] / Bernard Caleo p34. Grief and loss: fiction from a child’s point of view [We were not men by Campbell Mattinson, The cookbook of common prayer by Francessa Haig, Small joys of real life by Allee Richards] / Debra Adelaide p35. Max Dupain’s dilemmas / Helen Ennis p37. Apocalypse now: Delia Falconer’s new essay [Signs and wonders: dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer] / Joncia Newby p43. Long in the making: the Murray-Darling ecological crisis [Wounded country: the Murray-Darling Basin: a contested history by Quentin Beresford] / Cameron Muir p45. Living the questions: making gender legible [All about Yves by Yves Rees] / Kate Crowcroft p49. The good lie: an unsung Australian prophet [The life of a spy: an education in truth, lies and power by Rod Barton] / Andrew West p52. Joyful latitude of risk: life lessons from Australia [Into the rip: how the Australian way of risk made my family stronger, happier…and less American by Damien Cave] / David Masson p53. Take a step forward: an eloquent Holocaust story [The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel] / Alistair Thomson p56. No time limits: three new poetry collections [How to make a basket by Jazz Money, Bee do bother: an antagonist’s carepack by Ann Vickery, The open by Lucy Van] / Anders Villani p58. Levelling the uncanny: two moody books of allusion [Capacity by LK Holt, Theory of colours/ Bella Li] / Joan Fleming p59. Lyric provocations: two politically charged poetry volumes [Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen, Take care by Eunice Andrada] / Prithvi Varatharajan p60. Publisher of the month with Ivor Indyk p62. Prison island: an essential documentary on deaths in custody / Travis Akbar p65. An exasperating game of Cluedo: the new dramatization of Liane Moriarty / Jordan Prosser p66.

No. 438 DECEMBER 2021: A harbinger of new ways: bringing the colonial paper trail to life [Vandemonians: the repressed history of colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman] / Alan Atkinson p12. Start wobbling your tongue: a fitting tribute to an Aboriginal activist [William Cooper: an Aboriginal life story by Bain Attwood] / Penny Russell p13. Hand to hand combat: the porous and passionate life of Gillian Mears [Leaping into waterfalls: the enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan] / Brenda Walker p16. The individual in the universe: a panoramic biography of Philippa Cullen [The dancer: a biography for Phillipa Cullen by Evelyn Juers] / Susan Lever p17. An eye for character: taking a punt on Les Carlyon [A life in words: collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon] / Seamus Spark p30. Rachel and Hannah: Inga Simpson’s post-apocalyptic new novel [The last woman in the world by Inga Simpson] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p32. Liminal encounters: three new short story [She is haunted by Paige Clark, The kindness of birds by Merlinda Bobis, Ferocious Animals by Luke Johnson] / Francesca Sasnaitis p35. Carnage in Portsea: the mirror of a crime [The way it is now by Garry Disher] / Tony Birch p37. Wastrels out west: Max Easton’s impressive debut [The magpie wing by Max Easton] / Alex Cothren p39. Return to the old mill: the education of Wulff Scherchen [Wulff: Britten’s young Apollo by Tony Scotland] / Paul Kildea p40. The necromancy of solipsism: Gerald Murnane’s shameless aesthetic privacies [Last letter to a reader: essays by Gerald Murnane] / Peter Craven p41. The once and future leader: a tireless, provocative leader [Mission: essays, speeches and ideas by Noel Pearson] / Frank Bongiorno p42. Waves of anger and fear: Judith Brett on Australia’s political and cultural life [Doing politics: writing on public life by Judith Brett] / Morag Fraser p44. Outsider art: building bridges in words and paint [Fairweather and China by Claire Roberts] / Gavin Leuzzi p45. Lambchopdom: Paul van Reyk on Australian foodways [True to the land: a history of food in Australia by Paul van Reyk] / Gay Bilson p47. Scroll down, you deserve it: stretching and renewing language [Obligations of voice by Anne Elvey, Astroturfing for spring by Raymond Rousell, Slow walk home by Young Dawkins] / Luke Beesley p53. Wells of wisdom: philosophy and the ways of life [Ideas to save your life: philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure by Michael McGirr] / Janna Thompson p59. Flies in their wily webs: Melbourne’s buoyant colonial red-light district [The women of Little Lon: sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton] / Paul Dalgarno p60. The people, not the robots: key issues in the regulation of AI [We, the robots? Regulating artificial intelligence and the limits of the law by Simon Chesterman] / Henry Fraser p61. Open page with Evelyn Juers p62. Murky activities: the Ormond scandal in the #Me Too age / Ian Dickson p66.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022: The love problem: Helen Gardner on the fissures between fact and fiction [How to end a story: diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Gardner] / Lisa Gorton p8. ‘In God’s vineyard’: writing to a prime minister [Dear Prime Minister: letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966 by Martyn Lyons] / Brenda Niall p12. A tidy little earner: Peter Ryan meets his match [History wars: the Peter Ryan-Manning Clark controversy by Doug Munro] / Mark McKenna p13. On the homefront: picto-critical eyes on the Vietman war [Underground: marsupial outlaws and other rebels of Australia’s war in Vietnam by Miranda Burton] / Bernard Caleo p14. More history, not less: the unnaming of Moreland city council / Samuel Watts p32. Open page with Anna Clark p34. Secrets and broken hearts: three new novels of friendship [The golden book by Kate Ryan, The beautiful words by Vanessa McCausland, The wingmaker by Mette Jakobsen] / Polly Simons p37. Somethings remain of the past: the weighty impress of the past [Devotion by Hannah Kent] / Rose Lucas p41. Untimely theatrics: a new study of Patrick White’s drama [Patrick White’s theatre: Australian modernism on stage, 1960-2018] / Jonathan Dunk p42. Stasis anxiety: two poets address the impasses of the present [Endings & spacings by Pam Brown, accelerations & inertias by Dan Disney] / Abigail Fisher p44. Infinite coastlines: a substantial and enjoyable poet [Selected poems by Musgrave] / Geoff Page p47 Colonial haunts: a poet’s dark self-effacement [Save as by A. Frances Johnson] / Gregory Day p48. Clear head clear vision: a thematic look at Frances Burke [Frances Burke: designer of modern textiles by Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs] / Christopher Menz p49. Critic of the month with Don Anderson p50. The politics of partying: chronicles of queer theatricality [Buried not dead by Fiona McGregor] / Sophie Knezic p51. Mental borders: reimagining representative democracy [Democracy rules by Jan-Werner Müller] / Ben Wellings p52. Campese’s goosestep: the Paul Keating of Australian rugby [Campese: the last of the dream sellers by James Curran] / Barnaby Smith p59.

No.440 MARCH 2022: Till 'real voices wake us, and we drown: the mire of identity politics / Mindy Gill p8. Difficult thinking: theory's long summer [The Summer of Theory: History of a rebellion 1960-1990 by Philipp Felsch] / Sheila Fitzpatrick p12. Memory. Silence. Time.: a puzzling provocative look at historiography [Making Australian History by Anna Clark] / Penny Russell p13. Serious risks: meeting the challenge of global extinction [What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential risk and extreme politics by Andrew Leigh] / Gareth Evans p16. The day of horrors: Charles and Mary Lamb's double-singleness [Dream-Child: a life of Charles Lamb by Eric G. Wilson] / Frances Wilson p17. 'Litter, glass, black soft dust': a scattergun study of wartime writers by Will Loxley] / Paul Kildea p20. The education minister's jackboots: political interference in research funding / Judith Bessant, Faith Gordon, and Rob Watts p21. The trouble with ideas: How Dostoevsky wrote his way to salvation [The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment by Kevin Birmingham] / Geordie Williamson p22. 'Not being talked about': putting the arts on the political stage / David Latham p25. Open Page with Mary Beard p26. Party People: fictionalising Labor's years of hope [A Great Hope by Jessica Stanley] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p28. Mutable worlds: ambition and audacity [Home and Other Hiding places by Jack Ellis, Loveland by Robert Lukins, Hovering by Rhett Davis] / Debra Adelaide p29. Spirals and echoes: Sue Orr's second novel [Loop Tracks by Sue Orr] / Brigid Magner p31. Breaking and entering: piecemeal transgressions of a small town [Australiana by Yumna Kassab] / Jennifer Mills p32. Hearts on sleeves: Kári Gíslason's latest saga [The Sorrow Stone by Kári Gíslason] / Dilan Gunawardana p33. Houses of indifference: Hanya Yanagihara's three versions of America [To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara] / Georgia White p34. Covid on the brain: the irresistible rise of brain fog / Thomas H. Ford p35. Editor's Diary / Peter Rose p37. Out of the planetary test tube: a rewarding début from a Porter Prize winner [Animals with Human Voices by Damen O'Brien] / Sarah Day p43. An upward fall: a poet's quest for totality [Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston] / Joan Fleming p44. The aversion of conformity: a gene-frisking collection [Topsy-Turvy by Charles Bernstein] / Gig Ryan p45. Baudelaire's dream [Collected Prose Poem by Gary Catalano] / Paul Hetherington p47. Mickie and her monkey: a complicated family history [Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A human-animal story of captivity, patriarchy and nature by Iain McCalman] / Libby Robin p49. War without mercy: a woeful erosion of humanity [Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW camps by Sarah Kovner] / Joan Beaumont p51. Her mother's sentinel: an unmissable filial portrait [Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter's perspective by Patsy Millett] / Susan Sheridan p52. Questions of character: The troubled history of Colin Manock [A Witness of Fact: The peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock by Drew Rooke] / Alecia Simmonds p54. Owning experience: the conversation between body and mind [Feeling and Knowing: Making minds conscious by Antonio Damasio] / Diane Stubbings p55. Assembling orthodoxy: outlining how the bible came into being [The Making of the Bible: From the first fragments to sacred scripture by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter] / Constant J. Mews p56. Problemshifter: one hundred years of Raymond Williams [Raymonds Williams at 100 edited by Paul Stasi Rowman & Littlefield, Culture and Politics: Class, writing, socialism by Raymond Williams] / Gary Pearce p58. Curlew: for M.F. / Eileen Chong p59. Heady stuff: a mind-bending look at evolutionary cosmology [What's Eating the Universe? And other cosmic questions by Paul Davies] / Robyn Arianrhod p60. Realising the 'home beautiful': the first scholarly study of Daniel Cottier [Daniel Cottier: Designer, decorator, dealer by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly, with Andrew Montana and Suzan Veldink] / Matthew Martin p62. Split screen: Kenneth Branagh revisits his Belfast childhood [Belfast Kenneth Branagh] / Jordan Prosser p63. Convent life gone wrong: Paul Verhoeven's titillating new film [Benedetta Paul Verhoeven] / Miles Pattenden p64. Style and bounce: examining the history of AGNSW [The Exhibitionists: A history of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales by Steven Miller] / David Hansen p65. Kinder, schafft Neues!: A triumphant performance from Melbourne Opera [Die Walkure Suzanne Chaundy] / Michael Shmith p66. From the Archive [a monograph of Rick Amor by Gary Catalano] p68.

No.441 APRIL 2022: Shooting the messengers: how the Collaery case stains our democracy [commentary] / Kieran Pender p8. The man in the mirror: texture and nuance in the new biography of Bob Hawke [Bob Hawke: Demons and destiny by Tony Bramston] / Patrick Mullins p12. A league of his own: Stuart Macintyre's final volume [The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning by Stuart Macintyre] / Sheila Fitzpatrick p14. The amateur librarian: inside Stalin's history [Stalin's Library: A dictator and his books by Geoffrey Roberts] / Iva Glisic p16. From Vietnam to Viet Nam: conscripting memory of a divisive conflict [Return to Vietnam: An oral history of American and Australian veterans' journeys by Mia Martin Hobbs / Peter Edwards p18. The vampire supply chain: Amazon's experiment in literary populism [Everything and Less: The novel in the age of Amazon by Mark McGurl] / James Ley p21. Doomscrolling: the long road to civil disobedience [Our Own Worst Enemy: The assault from within on modern democracy by Tom Nichols] / Glyn Davis p23. Bess and Kathleen: Dominque Wilson's new novel [Orphan Rock by Dominique Wilson] / Susan Sheridan p26. Choirs of reform: Jane Rawson's topical allergy [A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson] p27. The impish slug: Edmund White's masochistic metafiction [A Previous Life by Edmund White] / Robert Dessaix p28. Silence and screams: the end of Steven Carroll's T.S. Eliot quartet [Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Steven Carroll] / Patrick Allington p29. Sinister undercurrents: three new Young Adult novels [Fish Out of Water by Kate Hendrick, The Break by Phillip Gwynne, if Not Us by Mark Smith] / Ben Chandler p30. 'Pill me harder': dementia's ventriloquist [The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne] / Gay Bilson p32. The push-pull of the past: a hypnotic trip into outback gothic [Banjawarn by Josh Kemp] / Jennifer Mills p33. Shadowboxing: the story of an Amrican pugilist [The Sawdust House by David Whish-Wilson] / Alex Cothren p34. A hot novax summer: the influence of sport and Covid on Australian language / Amanda Laugesen p35. Eastward, ho!: the dream of a red Eurasia [Eurasia without Borders: The dream of a leftist literary commons 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark] / Nicholas Jose p36. The circle of life: Phillipa McGuinness on skin [Skin Deep: The inside story of our outer selves by Phillipa McGuinness] / Diane Strubbings p38. 'Too busy to have time for us': reflections on Australian Studies at Harvard / Joan Beaumont p39. The Forest [poetry] / Judith Bishop p41. Imagination and virtuosity: two stylish new books from Life Before Man [Ken by Anthony Lawrence, Aflame by Subhash Jaireth] / Luke Beesley p42. More than holding on: new poetry from Jelena Dinic and Jane Gibian [In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic, Beneath the Tree Line by Jane Gibian] / Jennifer Harrison p43. Wake up to yourself!: a vivid new translation of Dante [Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated by D.M. Black] / Theodore Ell p45. Bondage as metaphor: a monumental study of poetry and constraint [Poetry and Bondage: A history and theory of lyric constraint by Andrea Brady] / John Hawke p46. A Stratford man: the enterprising young Shakespeare [The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin] / David McInnis p48. Deer Knife [poetry] / Anders Villani p49. Corrupt with virtuous season: a therapeutic approach to Shakespeare [Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare by James Gilligan and David A.J. Richards] / P. Kishore Saval p50. Audio evolutions: Siobhan McHugh on podcasting [The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound by Siobhan McHugh] / Astrid Edwards p51. Quiet achiever: Brenda Niall's new memoir [My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall] / Jacqueline Kent p52. The snares of grief: Pathways, not closure [Found, Wanting: A memoir by Natasha Sholl] / Andrew Broertjes p53. Open page with Tro Bramston [interview] p54. Fidelity and sorrow: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's luminous new film [Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi] / Dilan Gunawardana p56. Avec everything: biographical shards of James Ivory [Solid Ivory by James Ivory] / Ian Britain p57. Revisiting John Cassavetes: a compelling metatheatrical adaptation [The Second Woman by Carissa Licciardello] / Ian Dickson p58. The murder of Ian Duncan: a major new Australian oratorio [Watershed by Neil Armfield] / Humphrey Bower p59. Esultate: Harry Kupfer's production of Otello [Othello by Luke Joslin] / Michael Halliwell p60. The Grainger trap: at the altar of the curator's moral superiority [exhibition of items by Percy Grainger] / Peter Tregear p61. A collection of distinction: Hamilton Gallery's sixtieth birthday / Christopher Menz p63. From the Archive p64.

No.442 MAY 2022: Politics by other means: enlarging our diminished sense of political leadership / Frank Bongiorno p8. 'Corruption has flourished' : the need to make political integrity a priority [Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles and Catherine Williams] / Chris Wallace p11. Animal trials: exploring the human desire for retribution [Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law by Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans] p13. The case for lowering the voting age / Faith Gordon p14. A din of competing noise: confronting history at Tennant Creek [Telling Tennant's story: the strange career of the great Australian silence by Dean Ashenden] / Kim Mahood p16. Histories of resilience: A magisterial study of the Depression [Australia's Great Depression: how a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced by Joan Beaumont] / Benjamin Huf p17. Dancing on air: the bunglings of Nosey Bob [An Uncommon Hangman: the life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard by Rachel Franks] / Penny Russell p20. Lord of the flies: Britain's infamous atomic tests [The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan] / Michael Winkler p21. Pioneering legacy: a poet's love-fear relationship with the past [Judith Wright: Selected writings edited by Georgina Arnott] / Philip Mead p23. Lost in the bowels: recasting Helen Garner as an MFA craft seminar [Helen Garner by Sean O'Beirne] / Beejay Silcox p26. This woman my grandmother / Simon Tedeschi p29. Desire's other face: Omar Sakr's first novel [Son of Sin] / Jay Daniel Thompson p39. 'The unbearable sound': J.S. Harry's form of attention [new and selected poems by J.S. Harry] / Judith Bishop p42. Living difference: the politics of knowledge and territory [Borderless: a transnational anthology of feminist poetry edited by Saba Vasefi, Melinda Smith and Yvette Holt] / Nadia Rhook p45. Poet of the month with Anthony Lawrence p47. Enemy of the anodyne: Chloe Hooper's search for the unsentimental [Bedtime story by Chloe Hooper] / Brenda Walker p49. Beyond wind-tortured dunes: the unique wilderness of Australian deserts [Australian deserts: ecology and landscapes by Steve Morton] / Saskia Beudel p50. Inalienable vitality: Amitav Ghosh's entangled sensibilities [The Nutmeg's Vure: Parables from a planet in crisis by Amitav Ghosh] / Killian Quigley p51. Stone face: the history and prehistory of deadpan [Melbourne International Comedy Festival] / Sarah Balkin p53. A dangerous future: demythologising China-Australia relations [China panic: Australia's alternative to paranoia and pandering by David Brophy] / Tim Robertson p54. An imperial investment : the fight for abused children at Fairbridge [Reckoning: the forgotten children and their quest for justice by David Hill] / Jacqueline Kent p57. 'The point is to change it': an important but incomplete map of class [Class in Australia edited by Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard] / Sean Scalmer p59. Open page with Chlow Hooper p62. Looking queerly: reappraising the NGV's heteronormative assumptions [Queer exhibition] / Sophie Knezic p65. From the archive [Mungo MacCallum] p68.

No.443 JUNE 2022: Hardwood's many voices ["My Tongue Is My Own: a life of Gwen Hardwood" / Ann-Marie Priest] / Stephanie Trigg p8. The Nanette turn ["Ten Steps to Nanette" / Hannah Gadsby] / Sarah Balkin p10. Golf diplomacy ["Diplomatic: A Washington memoir" /Joe Hockey with Leo Shanahan] / Timothy J. Lynch p11. Back to the future [China's quest to break down its language barrier, 'Kingdom of Characters: a tale of language, obsession and genius in modern China" / Jing Tsu] / James Jiang p13. Gwen HArdwood and the perils of reticence [notes of a son and literary executor] / John Hardwood p16. Crunk, wig and slaps [how our language dates us in the digital world] / Sarah Ogilvie p21. The hunted ["Young Mungo" / Douglas Stuart] / Shannon Burns p24. Light below the water [exploring art and witchcraft, "The Colony" / Audrey Magee, "The Leviathan" / Rosie Andrews] / Diane Stubbings p25. Posthumous mortifications [steve Toltz's exploration of fear, "Here Goes Nothing" / Steve Toltz] / Amy Baillieu p27. Cheese & Bacon Cheetoes [Ned Kelly as a Gen X teen girl, "Red" / Felicity McLean] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett p28. Dreams and Ghost trains [Brendan Colley's big-hearted first novel "The Signal Line"] / Naama Grey-Smith p29. A living archive [mothering as the ultimate synthesis, "Mothertongues" / Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell] / Sarah Gory p30. Restless invention [three powerful new short story collections] / Cassandra Atherton p31. Fighting nonesty [Lee Kofman on the creative process, "The Writer Laid Bare: Mastering emotional honesty in a writer's art, craft and life"] / Merav Fima p33. Shouting abortion [a doctor reflects on the politics and economics of terminations] / Linda Atkins p34. Roar, china [Sino-Soviet creative convergence, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and early Soviet culture" / Edward Tyerman] / Iva Glisic p38. Ubiquitous shit [a faecal history of French literature, "Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature" / Annabel L. Kim] / David Jack p39. Britain's atomic oval [the vassalage of Australian governments in the 1950s and 1960s] / Elizabeth Tynan p42. It's me talking [poetry's vexes first person, "Running time" / Emily Stewart, "Inheritance" / Nellie Le Beau] / Anders Villani p44. Consoled by language [Sarah Holland-Batt's third collection, "The Jaguar'] / David Mason p46. Inhabited space [subtle edge-work in two new collections, "Acanthus" / Claire Potter, "Glass Flowers" / Diane Fathey] / Sarah Day p48. Souverining absences [an award-winning poet's seventh collection, "Revenants" / Adam Aitken] / Tobt Davidson p50. Uneven playing fields [the long wait for need-based funding, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia failed its schools" / Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor] / Ilana Snyder p51. Europe's dowager empress [Maria theresa and the fate of the HAbsburgs, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg empress in her time" / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger] / Miles Patterden p53. The new pillory [shame and humiliation in history. "The Politics of Humiliation: a modern history" / Ute Frevert] / Philip Dwyer p54. Spreading the convict stain [a wide-andled view of the history of punishment, "Convicts: a global history" / Clare Anderson] / Briony Neilson p55. Solidarity forever [two illustrated quests for social justice, "Our Members Be Unlimited" / Sam Wallman, "Orwell" / Pierre Christin and Sebastian Verdier] / Bernard Caleo p57. Nationhood on stage [reassessing the Australian theatrical repertoire, "Australia in 50 Plays" / Julian Meyrick] / Andrew Fuhrmann p58. Eating air [an Australian academic's ordeal in Iran, "The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in a Iranian prison" / Kylie Moore-Gilbert] / Hessom Razavi p60. busted [a gripping study of police corruption, "Operation Jungle" / John Shobbrook] / Lyndon Megarrity p61. Critic of the Month with Frances Wilson p62. A tangled knot [the human side of ETA's legacy] / Ruth McHugh-Dillon p64. The rest is silence [Harriet Gordon-Anderson's humanist Dane] / Tim Byrne p65. Music of hypnosis [a new co-production of Lobengrin] / Peter Rose p66.

No.444 JULY 2022: The law of the jungle - Western hipocricy over the Russian invasion of Ukraine / Ben Saul p9. Quo vadis, Australia? - reorienting the nation following the election [Joy Damousi, Stephen Charles and Catherine Williams, Frank Bongiorno, Dennis Altman, Davit Lathman] p21. A tribute to Brian Matthews / David Matthews p25. A new record - restoring good relations between government and universities / Julia Horne p26. The power paradox - illiberalism and Hindu majoritarianism in Modi's India / John Zubrzycki p30. Strong curry - on the trail of election language / Amanda Laugesen p45.


No.445 AUGUST 2022: The burden laid upon her' - Australia's policy gyrations on China ["Australia's China Odyssey: from euphoria to fear" / James Curran] / Hugh White p11. A tale of two Melbournes - election time for the poster boy of progressive politics / Paul Strangio p16. Dreams of communing - the challenge of Gail Jones fiction [ "Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones fiction . Anthony Uhlmann] / Julieanne Lamond p19. 'Ah wll, I suppose' - the editorial challenge of Such Is Life [The Life of Such is Life: a cultural history of an Australian classic / Roger Osborne] / Brigit Magner p20. From France to Shark Bay - the voyage of Rose and Louise de Freycinet [Rose: the extraordinary voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who sailed around the world for love / Suzanne Falkiner] / Danielle Clode p22. Brooms and cupboards - a familial portrait of the Melbourne art world [Bad Art Mother / Edwina Preston] / Jane Sullivan p24. Reckless as a rule - Robert's Drewe's ambivalence towards history [Nimblefoot / Robert Drewe] / Michael Winkler p25. Getting sad or getting mad - three new novels exploring women's suffering [Blue Hour / Sarah Schmidt, Bone Memories / Sally Piper, Sunbathing / Isobel Beech] / Georgia White p26. Dog Park - ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize / Nina Cullen p28. Nowhere places [Marlo / Jay Carmichael, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing - welcome contribution to queer fiction / Nigel Featherstone] / Jay Daniel Thompson p30. Natural Wonder - ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize / Tracy Ellis p32. The face of the deep - a pilgrimage to the border of oblivion [Basin: A novel / Scott McCulloch] / Morgan Nunan p34. Raising the hat - Alice Nelson's third novel [Faithless] / Nicole Abadee p35. Whale Fall / C.J. Garrow p36. Loneliness in the lazaret - fiction that is a shade too careful [The Coast / Eleanor Limprecht] / Penny Russell p39. The Ulysses century [Consuming Joyce: 100 years of Ulysses in Ireland / John McCourt, One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses / Colm Toibin] / Gary Pearce p40. A tribute to Frank Moorhouse / Catharine Lumby p42. Justice and identity - Jon Faine's compassionate approach to biography [Apollo and Thelma: a true tall tale / Jon Faine] / Michael McGirr p44. Ghosts, Ghosts Everywhere [Calibre Essay Prize] / Sarah Gory p45. The New Jerusalem - filtering experience through the grid of the finite [The letters of Thom Gunn] /Ian Dickson p48. A continuous elegy - Maureen Alsop's syntax of loss [Pyre] / Anders Villani p50. 'Might be long long time - a mixed anthology of trans-Tasmanian poetry [The Language in My Tongue: an anthology of Australian abd New Zealand poetry] / David Mason p51. Heels on the throat of song [languish / Marion May Campbell, And to Ecstasy / Marjon Mossammaparast] / Jennifer Harrison p52. Itchy feet [Where We Are / Alison Flett, ecliptical / Hazel Smith] / Chris Arnold p54. Fiscal fellow travelers [Butlet to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals / Oliver Bullough] /Kieran Pender p55. A rubber cudgel of a word - the speciousness of resilience / Anwen Crawford p57. The fluffy ambassador - a wide-ranging look at the koala [Koala: a life in trees / Danielle Clode] / Peter Menkhorst p59. The power of illumination - a major exhibition from the Tate Gallery / Sophie Knezic p62. A ruined paradise - Michael Franco's new film / Felicity Chaplin p63. Provoking the play - a waddling production of a breakneck farce / Tim Byrne p64. "Isn't everything death?" - a tawdry production of Verdi's opera / Peter Rose p65. 'A cycle of frightening songs' - an overwhelming version of Schubert's Winterreise / Michael Shmith p66.

No.446 SEPTEMBER 2022: A long way to go - Australia's fraught relations with China / James Curran p9. The diseased orchard: Australia's collective moral failures in Afganistan ["Veiled Valour", Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations / Tom Frame] / Kevin Foster p17. Purposes beyond ourselves: Gareth Rvans on promoting decency ["Good International Citizenship: the case for decency" / Gareth Evans] / Alison Broinowski p19. The verity of his company: Seamus Heaney in Australia [Nobel Laureate] / Tara McEvoy p22. The construction of history: exploring the impact of colonialism ["Jesustown: a novel" / Paul Daley] / Susan Midalia p29. Public and private lives: a controversial diplomat and bureaucrat ["Person of Interest: an intimate account of Cecily and John Burton" / Pamela Burton with Meredith Edwards] / Peter Edwards p44. Absolute devotion: Lionel Fogarty's unique poetic consciousness ["Harvest Lingo: New poems" / Lionel Fogarty] / Philip Morrissey p48. Defined by death: another take on the Cowra breakout [The Cowra Breakout / Mat McLachlan] / Seumas Spark p53. Tangible results [Bench and Book / Nicholas Hasluck, diary of N. Husluck - the member of Western Australian COurt] / Michael Sexton p54. Preaching to the converted: an insipid new play from Suzie Miller [two plays: "Anna K" and "RBG"] / Dianne Stubbibgs p61.