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
Open Page with Ryan O'Neill
ABR: 'What, if anything, impedes your writing?'
RO: 'The act of writing impedes my writing. The books I write in my head are perfect. Unfortunately, translating them onto the page ruins them.'
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
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'Her Mother’s Daughter: A memoir' by Nadia Wheatley
When John Norman Wheatley met Nina Watkin in Germany in 1946, he would have regarded her as a lesser being on all fronts: woman to his man, forty to his forty-eight, Australian to his Engl More
Gerard Windsor reviews 'Absolute Power: How the pope became the most influential man in the world' by Paul Collins
For more than thirty years, Paul Collins has been His Holiness’s loyal opposition. Absolute Power is the latest round in his spirited debate with the Vatican, the government which has the largest constituen 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
