May 2017, issue no. 391
Welcome to the May issue! Highlights include:
- James McNamara on the Trump presidency
- Morag Fraser’s tribute to John Clarke
- Jan McGuinness on a study of Helen Garner
- Open Page with Louis Nowra
- Beejay Silcox on The Idiot
- News from the Editor’s Desk
Highlights from the current issue
Tim Smartt reviews 'The Dream of Enlightenment: The rise of modern philosophy' by Anthony Gottlieb
In 1784 Immanuel Kant wrote a remarkable essay entitled ‘An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?’ The essay, written for a magazine, provided an occasion for the great and di ... More
Paul Kildea reviews 'The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables' by David Bellos
Visiting the actor Simon Gleeson in 2014 a few months after he was cast as Jean Valjean in a new production of Les Misérables, I was startled by the bulked-up friend who met me f More
Graeme Powell reviews 'Christina Stead: A web of friendship, selected letters (1928–1973)' edited by Ron Geering
In her novel Jacob’s Room (1922), Virginia Woolf wrote: ‘For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely for the communication of friends. Masters of languag ... More
Tessa Lunney reviews 'A Hundred Small Lessons' by Ashley Hay
Hundred Small Lessons holds powerful truths, simply told. It is a story of parenthood and place, where small domestic moments, rather than dramatic public displays, are the links between people, the present a More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
April 2017
'The Copyright of Albert Namatjira' by Colin Golvan
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
March 2017
Ross McKibbin on the Chilcot Report
Margaret Harris reviews a study of Queen Victoria
