September 2018, issue no. 404
Welcome to the September issue of ABR! Highlights include:
• Review of the Month: Clare Corbould reviews Joseph Crespino's 'biography' of Atticus Finch, Harper Lee's great creation
• Brenda Niall on the correspondence of Vance and Nettie Palmer
• Gideon Haigh on Seymour Hersh's memoir
• Stephen Mills on Bob Carr's new memoir
• Beejay Silcox on Michael Ondaatje’s new novel Warlight
• Michael Shmith on journalist Les Hinton’s memoir
• Johanna Leggatt on Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time
Highlights from the current issue
Joan Fleming reviews 'Look at the Lake' by Kevin Brophy
Kevin Brophy’s latest book is a record of the year he spent living in the remote Aboriginal community of Mulan. The community is home to predominantly Walmajarri people, and is on the ed More
Stephen Murray reviews 'The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems' by Anne Twomey
The first season of Netflix’s drama The Crown sees the young Princess Elizabeth’s constitutional education taken in hand by Eton history master Henry Marten, whose schooling o More
Judith Bishop reviews 'Sun Music: New and selected poems' by Judith Beveridge
The appearance of a New and Selected Poems by a widely loved and admired poet has all the pleasures of a major retrospective, but viewed alone, without the clamour of a gallery event. It More
Adrian Walsh reviews 'The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath' by Daniel Halliday
To what extent does the social practice of inheritance undermine social justice? Indeed, if inheritance does further inequality, should we, in order to ensure a fairer society, restrict th More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
August 2018
Review of the Month: Marilyn Lake reviews Peter Cochrane’s Best We Forget
ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellow Beejay Silcox on MFA culture
The 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist
Historian Alan Atkinson on The Sydney Wars by Stephen Gapps
Jen Webb on Ryan O’Neill’s new satire The Drover’s Wives
June–July 2018
James McNamara on television comedy's new aesthetic
Felicity Chaplin on tensions within the #MeToo movement
Alecia Simmonds on Rape and Resistance
Peter Goldsworthy on Hitler's obsession with film
Sally Grant on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
