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

Michael Sexton reviews 'Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world' by Andrew Leigh

Michael Sexton

Unusual for a federal parliamentarian, Andrew Leigh is a former academic economist and author of several serious books, these being distinguished from the vapid and self-serving memoirs publi More

David Fettling reviews 'Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century' edited by Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae

David Fettling

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

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Johanna Leggatt reviews 'Man out of Time' by Stephanie Bishop

Johanna Leggatt

Stephanie Bishop’s third novel, Man Out of Time, her most mature work to date, echoes Virginia Woolf’s psychological realism and the claustrophobic intensity of Elizabeth Harr More

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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