August 2017, issue no. 393
Welcome to the August Fiction issue! Highlights include:
- The three shortlisted stories in this year’s Jolley Prize
- Peter Rose on same-sex marriage
- Darius Sepehri’s Calibre Prize essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’
- Tom Griffiths reviews a new book on the climate catastrophe
- Bernadette Brennan on Sarah Sentilles’s hymn for the victims of war
- Interviews with Louise Adler and Gregory Day
Highlights from the current issue
Ryan Cropp reviews 'Donald Horne: Selected writings' edited by Nick Horne
The American novelist Richard Yates once remarked to an interviewer that he had the misfortune of having written his best book first. He might have found an ally in Donald Horne, whose fir More
Publisher of the Month with Louise Adler
What was your pathway to publishing? As an English and Comparative Literature graduate whose childhood had been circumscribed by chronic asthma and excessive reading of Enid Blyton stories More
'Little Fly' by Fay Zwicky
My Mužka (‘little fly’ in Czech)
Goes softly but she goeth sure.
She stumbles not as larger creatures do,
Her journey’s shorter so she may endure
More puissant than do those who further go.< More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
June-July 2017
'Salt Blood' by Michael Adams, winner of the 2017 Calibre Essay Prize
Varun Ghosh reviews two books on Barack Obama's legacy
Robin Gerster reviews Việt Nam: A History from earliest times to the present by Ben Kiernan
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
May 2017
James McNamara reviews two books on the Trump presidency
Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams
Beejay Silcox reviews '4321' by Paul Auster
Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson' by Jeff Sparrow
