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
Michael Shmith reviews 'The Bootle Boy: An untidy life in news' by Les Hinton
One day not that far away, I suspect, hot-metal memoirs will grow cold on the slab. Thus the triumph of technology over the nostalgia of those days when journalistic skills included not on 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
David Fettling reviews 'Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century' edited by Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae
During World War II, thousands of Indonesians arrived in Australia, brought by the colonial Dutch as they fled Japan’s military advance through Southeast Asia, and Molly Warner wanted to More
Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'We’ll Show the World: Expo 88' by Jackie Ryan
Born in 1825, Brisbane is an elderly lady who has been to a surprising number of ‘coming of age’ balls. Numerous historians, officials, speechmakers, and journalists for several decade 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
