September 2018, issue no. 404

Calibre Essay Prize now open

We welcome essays of all kinds.

Atticus: Harper Lee's classic character

In our Review of the Month: Clare Corbould reviews Joseph Crespino's 'biography' of Atticus Finch.

Peter Porter Poetry Prize now open

Deadline for our $8,500 prize is 3 December, 2018.

Leader of the Pack

Gideon Haigh reviews 'Reporter: A Memoir' by journalist Seymour Hersh.

An Open Letter on the ABC

ABR shares many Australians’ concerns about the health and viability of the ABC. The threats are myriad and sustained.

'Man Out of Time'

Johanna Leggatt reviews Stephanie Bishop's new novel 'Man Out of Time'

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

James Ley reviews 'T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination' edited by Deborah Jordan

James Ley

When the bloated and pocky corpse of literary studies is finally thrown from the battlements of the ivory tower in a futile attempt to appease the unappeasable forces of neoliberal corpora More

Vivien Gaston reviews 'An introduction to Pontormo' by Jonah Jones

Vivien Gaston

Having crossed the bustling Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the visitor soon encounters a small piazza with a shaded entrance to the church of Santa Felicita and gladly enters the cool grey sto More

Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'We’ll Show the World: Expo 88' by Jackie Ryan

Lyndon Megarrity

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

Clare Corbould reviews 'Atticus Finch: The biography' by Joseph Crespino

Clare Corbould

When I taught African American history at the University of Sydney, students read the words of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, and Martin Luther King Jr. They discussed More