September 2017, issue no. 394
Welcome to the September issue! Highlights include:
- Philip Jones’s Fellowship Essay ‘Beyond Songlines’
- John Rickard on Judith Brett’s biography of Alfred Deakin
- Brian Matthews on Jim Davidson’s memoir
- Sue Kossew on J.M. Coetzee’s essays
- James Ley reviews The Choke by Sofie Laguna
- Richard Walsh (Allen & Unwin) is Publisher of the Month
- 'The same-sex marriage debate' by Peter Rose
Highlights from the current issue
Tali Lavi reviews 'Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business' by Catherine Fox
In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf instructs women to ‘write calmly’ and ‘not in a rage’. Commentator Catherine Fox writes ‘calmly’ about contemporary realities with great potential t ... More
Colin Wight reviews 'The End of Europe: Dictators, demagogues, and the coming Dark Age' by James Kirchick
‘The obscurest epoch is today.’
Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains (1892)
A book that attempts to predict the course of contemporary affairs is a ... More
Publisher of the Month with Richard Walsh
What was your pathway to publishing? In 1971 I founded the weekly newspaper that became Nation Review. Soon afterwards my proprietor, Gordon Barton, acquired Angus & Robertson and offered me the job of ru More
Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'The Show: Another side of Santamaria’s movement' by Mark Aarons and John Grenville
The Movement was a secret organisation which radically reduced the power of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) within the union movement during the 1940s and 1950s. Initiated by B.A. S ... More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
August 2017
The three shortlisted stories in this year’s Jolley Prize
Darius Sepehri’s Calibre Prize essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’
Tom Griffiths reviews a new book on the climate catastrophe
Bernadette Brennan on Sarah Sentilles’s hymn for the victims of war
June-July 2017
'Salt Blood' by Michael Adams, winner of the 2017 Calibre Essay Prize
Varun Ghosh reviews two books on Barack Obama's legacy
Robin Gerster reviews Việt Nam: A History from earliest times to the present by Ben Kiernan
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
