June-July 2017, issue no. 392
Welcome to the June-July issue! Highlights include::
- The 2017 Calibre Essay Prize winner: 'Salt Blood' by Michael Adams
- Kerryn Goldsworthy on Arundhati Roy's second novel
- Henry Rosenbloom is Publisher of the Month
- Varun Ghosh reviews two books on Obama's legacy
- Robin Gerster reviews a comprehensive history of Vietnam
- Phoebe Weston-Evans's 'Letter from Paris'
Highlights from the current issue
Simon Caterson reviews 'Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks' by Craig Collie
In architectural terms, if no other, the Australian counterpart to the famous World War II code breaking centre at Bletchley Park initially could not have been more different. While Alan T ... More
Anna MacDonald reviews 'This Water: Five tales' by Beverley Farmer
There is a distinct poignancy attached to last things, a sense in which they encapsulate all that has gone before at the same time as they anticipate an end. In the moment of their first m ... More
2017 Calibre Essay Prize (winner): 'Salt Blood'
It is quiet and cool and dark blue. At this depth the pressure on my body is double what it is at the surface: my heartbeat has slowed, blood has started to withdraw from my extremities an More
Varun Ghosh reviews 'Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critics and created a legacy that will prevail' by Jonathan Chait and 'We Are The Change We Seek: The speeches of Barack Obama' edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid
What is Barack Obama’s legacy? That deceptively simple question forms the subject of Jonathan Chait’s new book ...
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Recent Issues
June-July 2017
2017 Calibre Essay Prize (winner): 'Salt Blood'
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' by Arundhati Roy
Varun Ghosh reviews two books on the legacy of Barack Obama
Rose Lucas reviews 'Snake Like Charms' by Amanda Joy and 'The Herring Lass' by Michelle Cahill
April 2017
'The Copyright of Albert Namatjira' by Colin Golvan
Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams
Beejay Silcox reviews '4321' by Paul Auster
Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson' by Jeff Sparrow
